Unlocking Your Creativity (Idiot's Guides) - Softcover

Poreba, Doreen Marcial

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1615647724 ISBN 13: 9781615647729

Publisher: Alpha, 2015

Synopsis

Creativity is the engine that drives personal self-fulfillment and business innovation. The busier and the more complicated life gets, the more difficult it is to relax and let creative ideas flow. Idiot's Guides: Unlocking Your Creativity helps readers get past the barriers that keep them from being creative at work and in their daily lives. Helpful success stories are also included.

About this title

About the Author

Doreen Marcial Poreba is acertified creativity coach and the author of "Idiot's Guide to Unlocking YourCreativity," published by Alpha Books. In addition, she is currently offeringan online eight-week course through DailyOm titled "Unlocking Your Creativitywith Spirituality." She also is an award-winning, accredited PR specialist,professional photographer, freelance writer, public speaker, singer-songwriterand recording artist. Friends have often referred to her as a "RenaissanceWoman," due to her sense of adventure, individualism, and interest in multiplecultural endeavors, mainly writing, photography and music, but she has dabbledin many different artistic and creative ventures along the way. She also has alove for technology and gadgetry, which assists with her creative projects. 

From the Back Cover

Creativity is all around, driving innovation and invention and serving as an outlet for artists of all kinds. It's far too easy to get distracted by day-to-day responsibilities and neglect your creative side, but it's so important not to let that happen! In this helpful guide, you learn how to break through the barriers preventing you from nurturing your creative self. In it, you get:

* A look at the value of imagination and ways creative play can enhance your life.
* A primer on the creative process and how you can begin to think more creatively.
* Simple suggestions for promoting a creative culture at home and at work.
* Easy ideas for exploring creative problemsolving on your own or with others.
* Engaging exercises that get you out of your routine rut and jump-start your creativity.

Doreen Marcial Poreba is founder of The Creative Caboose, a division of The PR Czar® Inc., and a certified creativity coach. She helps creative practitioners, emerging artists, hobbyists, retirees, business professionals, and entrepreneurs achieve their dreams by empowering them to uncover, recover, and discover their own creativity. She is also a PR professional, photographer, freelance writer, multi-instrumentalist musician, and singer-songwriter.

From the Inside Flap

No one likes a know-it-all. Most of us realize there's no such thing -- how could there be? The world is far too complicated for someone to understand everything there is to know. So when you come across a know-it-all, you smile to yourself as they ramble on because you know better.

You understand that the quest for knowledge is a never-ending one, and you're okay with that. You have no desire to know everything, just the next thing. You know what you don't know, you're confident enough to admit it, and you're motivated to do something about it.

At Idiot's Guides, we, too, know what we don't know, and we make it our business to find out. We find really smart people who are experts in their fields and then we roll up our sleeves and get to work. asking lots of questions and thinking long and hard about how best to pass along their knowledge to you in the easiest, most-accessible way possible.

After all, that's our promise -- to make whatever you want to learn "As Easy as It Gets." That means giving you a well-organized design that seamlessly and effortlessly guides you from page to page, topic to topic.

It means controlling the pace you're asked to absorb new information -- not too much at once but just what you need to know right now. It means giving you a clear progression from easy to more difficult. It means giving you more instructional steps wherever necessary to really explain the details. And it means giving you fewer words and more illustrations wherever it's better to show rather than tell.

So here you are, at the start of something new. The next chapter in your quest. It can be an intimidating place to be, but you've been here before and so have we. Clear your mind and turn the page. By the end of this book, you won't be a know-it-all, but your world will be a little less complicated than it was before. And we'll be sure your journey is as easy as it gets.

Mike Sanders
Publisher, Idiot's Guides

Edition details

• Publisher: Alpha
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615647724
• ISBN 13: 9781615647729
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336