Books

Doodles and Drawings Boost Planning and Healing

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Upon the recommendation of a friend I checked out a book from the library yesterday called The Creative Entrepreneur by Lisa Sonora Beam. By the time I was two pages into the book I was hooked. After feeling out of sorts for most of the week, looking through the pages of the book brought an immediate sense of peace and inner calm. The Creative Entrepreneur is subtitled “A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real.” Lisa wrote this book [...]

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Create Goals Not Prison Sentences

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Why do we create goals? With goals you can set a course of action and make better decisions about the opportunities – and distractions – that come your way each day. Without goals, you are more likely to be subject to the whims and pressures of both external and internal feelings in the moment. At their best, the articulation of goals helps you in four significant ways. They help you give voice and direction to your desires and dreams. They [...]

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Love What You Want

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It should be easy, shouldn’t it? You dream, you imagine, you picture what your life would be like if it were completely up to you. The search for purpose and meaning is ongoing. The ability to maintain a connection to it is often excruciatingly difficult. Steven Pressfield, author of “The War of Art,” says that the closer you get to your passion and your purpose the greater your resistance becomes. It seems backward, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t the obstacles and fears [...]

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