<p><strong>Life isn鈥檛 about 鈥渇inding鈥?fulfillment and success 鈥?it鈥檚 about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture?聽 No longer.</strong></p><p>Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition.聽聽</p><p>The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill鈥攊t's a habit available to everyone:聽 beginners and lifelong creators, entrepreneurs to executives, astronauts to zookeepers, and everyone in between. Through small, daily actions we can supercharge our innate creativity and rediscover our personal power in life.</p><p>Whether your ambition is a creative career, completing a creative project, or simply cultivating a creative mindset, Creative Calling will unlock your potential via Jarvis鈥檚 memorable 鈥淚DEA鈥?system:聽</p><p>路聽 聽 聽 Imagine your big dream, whatever you want to create鈥攐r become鈥攊n this world.</p><p>路聽 聽 聽 Design a daily practice that supports that dream鈥攁nd a life of expression and transformation.</p><p>路聽 聽 聽 Execute on your ambitious plans and make your vision real.</p><p>路聽 聽 聽 Amplify your impact through a supportive community you鈥檒l learn to grow and nurture.</p><p><br />聽</p>

When our embarrassments and fears lie, we often listen to them anyway. They thwart our gratitude, acceptance, and compassion鈥攐ur goodness. They insist, 鈥淚 am not worthy.鈥?But we聽<i>are聽</i>worthy鈥攐f self-discovery, personal growth, and boundless love. With Bren茅 Brown鈥檚 game-changing聽<i>New York Times</i>聽bestseller聽<i>The Gifts of Imperfection</i>鈥攚hich has sold聽<b>more than 2 million copies聽</b>in more than聽<b>30 different languages,聽</b>and聽<i>Forbes聽</i>recently named聽<b>one of the "Five Books That Will Actually Change Your Outlook On Life"</b>鈥攚e find courage to overcome paralyzing fear and self-consciousness, strengthening our connection to the world.<br /><br />A motivational and inspiring guide to wholehearted living, rather than just the average self-help book, with this groundbreaking work Bren茅 Brown, Ph.D., bolsters the self-esteem and personal development process through her characteristic heartfelt, honest storytelling. With original research and plenty of encouragement, she explores the psychology of releasing our definitions of an 鈥渋mperfect鈥?life and embracing living authentically. Brown鈥檚 鈥渢en guideposts鈥?are benchmarks for authenticity that can help anyone establish a practice for a life of honest beauty鈥攁 perfectly imperfect life.<br /> <br /> Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to 鈥渄ig deep鈥?and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can鈥檛 hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.

Think of The War of Art as tough love... for yourself.<br /><br />Since 2002, The War of Art has inspired people around the world to defeat "Resistance"; to recognize and knock down dream-blocking barriers and to silence the naysayers within us.Resistance kicks everyone's butt, and the desire to defeat it is equally as universal. The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.Though it was written for writers, it has been embraced by business entrepreneurs, actors, dancers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, military service members and thousands of others around the world.<br /><br />"As I closed The War of Art, I felt a surge of positive calm. I now know I can win this war. And if I can win, so can you." - From the foreword by Robert McKee, screenwriting guru"<br /><br />[The War of Art] aims to help readers channel creative energy, unlock potential and overcome the fears that stop us from reaching our fullest potential. With courage, following the right formula and working hard, the book proposes that passion can be turned into purpose." - Ellen Degeneres book pick<br /><br />"Resistance is the voice in the back of our head telling us to back off, be careful, go slow, compromise. . . . [Steve Pressfield is] the godfather of the resistance, the five-star general in the war against fear." - Seth Godin<br /><br />"A vital gem . . . a kick in the ass." - Esquire<br /><br />"I've never read a self help book that wasn't fatuous, obvious and unhelpful. Until The War of Art. It's amazingly cogent and smart on the psychology of creation. If I ever teach a writing course this would be one of the first books I'd assign, along with the letters of Flannery O'Connor." - Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls<br /><br />"Yes, The War of Art is hell. But Steven Pressfield is our Clausewitz who shows how you too can battle against The Four Horsemen of The Apologetic: sloth, inertia, rationalization and procrastination. Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Beethoven all are proof of what you can do with talent and General Pressfield." - Frank Deford, author and NPR commentator<br /><br />"A marvelous help for anybody who has ever encountered the resistance of a blank page, an empty canvas or an unyielding musical scale." <br />- Stan Berenstein, co-creator of The Berenstein Bears<br /><br />Steven Pressfield is the author of the novels The Legend of Bagger Vance (made into the movie starring Matt Damon and Will Smith), Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, Killing Rommel, and The Profession. His nonfiction includes The War of Art, The Warrior Ethos, and the upcoming Turning Pro. His books are included in the curriculum at West Point and the Naval Academy, and are on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. <br /><br />In 2012, Pressfield will launch his independent publishing company, BLACK IRISH BOOKS with his longtime editor, agent, publisher, and friend, Shawn Coyne.

<b><b>INSTANT #1 </b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><b> BESTSELLER </b><br /><b></b><br /><b>"This book will change lives."</b><br /><b>--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of </b><b><i>Eat, Pray, Love</i></b></b><br /><br />From the host of the award-winning MarieTV and The Marie Forleo Podcast, an indispensable handbook for becoming the creative force of your own life.<br /><br />While most self-help books offer quick fixes, <i>Everything is Figureoutable</i> will retrain your brain to think more creatively and positively in the face of setbacks. In the words of Cheryl Strayed, it's "a must-read for anyone who wants to face their fears, fulfill their dreams, and find a better way forward."<br /><br />If you're having trouble solving a problem or reaching a dream, the problem isn't you. It's that you haven't yet installed the one belief that changes everything.<br /><br />Marie's mom once told her, "Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you roll up your sleeves. Everything is figureoutable." <br /><br />Whether you want to leave a dead end job, break an addiction, learn to dance, heal a relationship, or grow a business, <i>Everything is Figureoutable</i> will show you how.<br /><br />You'll learn:<br /><br />聽聽<b>鈥?lt;/b>聽聽The habit that makes it 42% more likely you'll achieve your goals.<br />聽聽<b>鈥?lt;/b>聽聽How to overcome a lack of time and money.<br />聽聽<b>鈥?lt;/b>聽聽How to deal with criticism and imposter syndrome.<br /><br />It's more than just a fun phrase to say. It's a philosophy of relentless optimism. A mindset. A mantra. A conviction. <br /><br /><b>Most important, it's about to make you unstoppable.</b>

In the next ten years, every knowledge worker on earth will become one of two things: invaluable or obsolete. No matter the industry, the pace of progress and new information is faster today than ever before in human history鈥攁nd it鈥檚 accelerating exponentially.<BR><BR>In this new reality, how can we possibly hope to keep up? How can we learn, unlearn, and relearn fast enough to stay relevant in the world to come?<BR><BR>In <i>The Only Skill That Matters</i>, <B>Jonathan Levi</B> unveils a powerful, neuroscience-based approach to reading faster, remembering more, and learning more effectively. You鈥檒l master the ancient techniques being used by world record holders and competitive memory athletes to unlock the incredible capacity of the human brain. You鈥檒l learn to double or triple your reading speed, enhance your focus, and optimize your cognitive performance. Most importantly, you鈥檒l be empowered to confidently approach any subject鈥攆rom technical skills, to names and faces, to foreign languages, and even speeches鈥攁nd learn it with ease.

<b>One of the world鈥檚 leading artists鈥攁 living legend鈥攁nd bestselling author of <i>The Creative Habit</i> shares her secrets for harnessing vitality and finding purpose as you age. From insight to action, <i>Keep It Moving </i>is a guidebook for expanding one鈥檚 possibilities over the course of a lifetime.<i> </i> </b><br /><br />At seventy-seven, Twyla Tharp is revered not only for the dances she makes鈥攂ut for her astounding regime of exercise and non-stop engagement.<b> </b>She is famed for religiously hitting the gym each morning at daybreak,<b> </b>and utilizing that energy to propel her breakneck schedule as a<b> </b>teacher, writer, creator, and lecturer. This book grew out of the<b> </b>question she was asked most frequently: 鈥淗ow do you keep<b> </b>working?鈥?lt;br /> <br /> In Twyla鈥檚 own words: 鈥淭his book is a collection of what I鈥檝e learned in the past fifty-five years: from the moment I committed to a life in dance up until today...it identifies a 鈥榙isease鈥?and offers a cure. That disease, simply put, is our fear of time鈥檚 passing and the resulting aging process. The remedy? This book in your hands.鈥?lt;br /> <br /> <i>Keep It Moving</i> is a series of no-nonsense mediations on how to live with purpose as time passes. From the details of how she stays motivated to the stages of her evolving fitness routine, Tharp models how fulfillment depends not on fortune鈥攂ut on attitude, possible for anyone willing to try and keep trying. Culling anecdotes from Twyla鈥檚 life and the lives of other luminaries, each chapter is accompanied by a small exercise that will help anyone develop a more hopeful and energetic approach to the everyday.<br /> <br /> Twyla will tell you what the beauty-fitness-wellness industry won鈥檛: chasing youth is a losing proposition. Instead, <i>Keep It Moving</i><i> </i>focuses you on what鈥檚 here and where you鈥檙e going鈥攖he book for anyone who wishes to maintain their prime for life.

<p><b>"Without <i>The Artist's Way</i>, there would have been no <i>Eat, Pray, Love</i>.鈥?鈥擡lizabeth Gilbert</b></p><p><b>The Artist鈥檚 Way</b>聽is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist鈥檚 life. Still as vital today<b>鈥?lt;/b>or perhaps even more so<b>鈥?lt;/b>than it was when it was first published twenty five years ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of聽<b>The Artist鈥檚 Way</b>聽and shares additional insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes聽<b>The Artist鈥檚 Way</b>聽for today's creatives.</p>

<b>The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller<br /><br />"A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life... I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious.鈥?鈥擯opSugar<br /><br />From the worldwide bestselling author of <i>Eat Pray Love </i>and <i>City of Girls</i>: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you鈥檝e dreamed of</b>. <br />聽<br />Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert鈥檚 books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the 鈥渟trange jewels鈥?that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, 聽embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, <i>Big Magi</i>c cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

<b><b><b>From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios鈥攖he Academy Award鈥搘inning studio behind聽<i>Coco, Inside Out,聽</i>and聽<i>Toy Story</i>鈥攃omes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership for readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath.</b></b><br /><br /> <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>The Huffington Post</i> 鈥?<i>Financial Times</i> 鈥?<i>Success</i> 鈥?<i>Inc.</i> 鈥?<i>Library Journal</i></b><br /><br /></b><i>Creativity, Inc.</i> is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation鈥攊nto the meetings, postmortems, and 鈥淏raintrust鈥?sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about creativity鈥攂ut it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, 鈥渁n expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.鈥?lt;br /><br /> For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the <i>Toy Story</i> trilogy, <i>Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up,聽WALL-E, </i>and <i>Inside Out,聽</i>which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really <i>is</i>. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired鈥攁nd so profitable.<br /><br /> As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his co-founding Pixar in 1986. Nine years later, <i>Toy Story</i> was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie鈥檚 success鈥攁nd in the thirteen movies that followed鈥攚as the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as:<br /><br /> 鈥?Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.<br /> 鈥?If you don鈥檛 strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. <br /> 鈥?It鈥檚 not the manager鈥檚 job to prevent risks. It鈥檚 the manager鈥檚 job to make it safe for others to take them.<br /> 鈥?The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. <br /> 鈥?A company鈥檚 communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.

<i>Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can鈥檛 be done alone.</i><br /> 聽<br /> Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has performed thousands of concerts, published four novels, released ten albums, taught college and seminary classes on writing, founded a nonprofit ministry for Christians in the arts, and executive-produced a film鈥攁ll in a belief that God calls us to proclaim the gospel and the coming kingdom using whatever gifts are at our disposal. He鈥檚 stumbled along the way, made mistake after mistake, and yet has continually encountered the grace of God through an encouraging family, a Christ-centered community of artists in the church, and the power of truth, beauty, and goodness in Scripture and the arts.<br /> 聽<br /> While there are many books about writing, none deal first-hand with the intersection of songwriting, storytelling, and vocation, along with nuts-and-bolts exploration of the great mystery of creativity. In <i>Adorning the Dark</i>, Andrew describes six principles for the writing life:<br /> 聽 <ul><li>serving the work</li><li>serving the audience</li><li>selectivity</li><li>discernment</li><li>discipline</li><li>and community</li></ul> 聽<br /> Through stories from his own journey, Andrew shows how these principles are not merely helpful for writers and artists, but for anyone interested in imitating the way the Creator interacts with his creation.<br /> 聽<br /> This book is both a memoir of Andrew鈥檚 journey and a handbook for artists, written in the hope that his story will provide encouragement to others stumbling along in pursuit of a calling to adorn the dark with the light of Christ.<br /> 聽