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Is there a project gathering dust on your desk or in the back of your mind? Maybe it’s the first few chapters of a novel, a half-painted canvas, or a business idea that once felt brilliant. It’s the thing that once sparked a fire in you, but now feels like a heavy weight, a silent monument to your own creative block. You’re not lazy, and you’re not broken. You’re stuck in the paralyzing loop of perfectionism, comparison, and the quiet fear of not being good enough. You see others succeeding and wonder, "Why isn't that me?" The Unfinished Song is not another productivity guide full of hacks.

As featured on BBC Radio across the UK. Discover the simple, transformative joy of knitting — and how it can bring calm, colour and connection into your everyday life. Knitting Happiness is a warm, poetic and deeply companionable guide to wellbeing through the gentle art of knitting. Blending mindful practice with heartfelt storytelling, it explores how yarn, rhythm and the act of making can soothe the mind, lift the spirit and help us rediscover beauty in the ordinary.

The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal. "I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have...

It all starts with your brain: how you think, how you feel, how you interact with others, and how well you succeed in realizing your goals and dreams. When your brain works right, so do you. When it’s out of balance, you feel frustrated, or worse. Yet amid all the advice that bombards us daily...

Daniel Amen, M.D., one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain, has news for you: your brain is involved in everything you do—learn to care for it properly, and you will be smarter, healthier, and happier in as little as 15 days! You probably run, lift weights, or do yoga to keep...

“There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore. Take the title of this book as affirmation, and get started.” —Fast Company More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it...

When was the last time you remember feeling like yourself? For many of us, it’s been way too long. Chapter by chapter, More YourSELF rekindles your natural sense of curiosity toward yourself, other people, and the great big world around you. You’ll be led, one step at a time, out of stuckness into your most authentic self and a more joy-filled, purposeful life. How? By exchanging assumptions and certainties for wonderment and question marks.

Ken Robinson cambió la vida de millones de personas. Dedicó los últimos años de su vida a escribir lo que sería su manifiesto, en el que integra las claves de su revolución de la educación. Cuando en agosto de 2020 le diagnosticaron un cáncer terminal, pidió a su hija Kate que concluyera ese manifiesto. Para sir Ken, lo que realmente nos diferencia del resto de los seres vivos es la imaginación: la capacidad para crear en la mente cosas que no existen, para proyectar un mundo diferente al que habitamos y, en definitiva, para recrearlo.

Unlock the gifts and medicine of storytelling as a tool for healing yourself, your community, and the planet. Do you carry a story inside you—one that stirs beneath the surface, whispering to be told? Are you a story catcher, inspired to gather and tell the stories of this time? Or perhaps you...

Master creative thinking in the AI age with practical tools that blend imagination and discipline for better innovation in this updated, award-winning business bestseller. Now updated with twenty percent new content, this Porchlight Business Book of the Year returns with all-new case studies and...

When jazz pianist Sarah Jane Cion began exchanging messages with a mysterious friend named Jason—whose bracketed one-liners read like cosmic sheet music—she didn’t expect those conversations to reshape her entire way of listening to life. But somewhere between teaching days, late-night gigs, and feline interludes, something shifted. A new tempo emerged.

In a world filled with constant notifications, busy schedules, and endless responsibilities, finding a moment of calm can feel difficult. Yet something simple creating with your hands can gently quiet the mind and restore a sense of balance.

Have you ever found yourself hesitating at a crossroads, unsure of which decision to make? Or perhaps you have experienced a fleeting sense of certainty, an inexplicable feeling that guided you toward the right path – even when logic told you otherwise. That whisper, that nudge, is your intuition. And it is far more powerful than you might realize.

Artist and founder of The Painting School Sara Woster invites readers into the vibrant world of painting as a creative practice powerful enough to transform our lives. Sara Woster is a painter, teacher, and art evangelist. She believes in art as a form of mindfulness, a ritual for healing, and...

An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life. Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be...

"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath." —Steve Martin Art has...

Would you have the patience and drive to change your mind state, music production techniques, and health habits to sustain this highly demanding way of life? This step-by-step guide to music composer lifestyle design teaches how J.T. went from a six-figure job in a Fortune 500 company to composing music full-time, almost doubling his revenues within the first two years; how to compose, sound, and live like the pros; how to monetize every second spent in front of your equipment, making sounds and songs; and more.

Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. Combining creativity tools and techniques with real-world stories of innovative people and businesses, this audiobook is a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity that lies within each of us. It offers a more dynamic and integrative way to adapt and innovate, one that allows us the freedom to access our full human selves.

What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.

Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is not only to our partner or our own offspring, but to a larger community. Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explores what it means to choose to be solitary and celebrates the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling.