Staying Composed
Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life
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Dale Trumbore
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Dale Trumbore
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"Dale writes candidly about the challenges she's faced and what she found works. Staying Composed is a treasure trove of practical strategies for moving your artistic career forward... I recommend Staying Composed not only for composers, but for performers, writers, and any other creatives. Too many of us harbor fantasies of a short cut to 'making it,' instead of building our own career success, step by step, from where we are right now. Thank you, Dale, for writing this book to help us on the journey." —Angela Myles Beeching, author of Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
All artists have doubts and anxieties. What are yours? Managing procrastination, anxiety, and creative blocks? Knowing how to trust your work? Dealing with other people? Balancing the need to push through to the end of a work while keeping your health and sanity? Handling rejection...and your own success?
Dale Trumbore has faced each of these issues, and Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life is her answer. With humor and understanding, Dale breaks down each obstacle to a creative career and presents workable strategies for a long-range, manageable, and meaningful life in the arts.
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In The Courage Habit, certified life coach Kate Swoboda offers freedom from the outdated belief that one must be fearless in order to live courageously. Instead, she defines courage as a willingness to act on what we want in spite of our fears and offers an evidence-based program to help readers conquer their inner critic, overcome worries, increase resilience, work toward their highest aspirations, and make courage a habit every day.
By: Kate Swoboda, and others
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How to Get Sh*t Done
- Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything
- By: Erin Falconer
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Story4 out of 5 stars 274
Finally, in the first productivity book by a woman in a decade, Erin Falconer will show you how to do less - a lot less. In fact, How to Get Sh*t Done will teach you how to zero in on the three areas of your life where you want to excel, and then it will show you how to offload, outsource, or just stop giving a damn about the rest. In How to Get Sh*t Done she shows how even the most perfectionistic among us can tap in to our inner free spirit and learn to feel like badasses rather than drudges.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected
- By Justin Jones on 02-05-18
By: Erin Falconer
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Begin with Yes
- A Short Conversation That Will Change Your Life Forever
- By: Paul S. Boynton
- Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
The law of attraction tells us that whatever we focus our attention on, consciously or not, we attract into our lives. Think happy thoughts, enjoy happy experiences. And vice versa. The best-selling Begin with Yes introduces the law of action, a principle that reverses the order - and is equally powerful: What we do affects how we think and the kinds of experiences we have. When we take small, manageable steps, we feel more positive, and our lives flow more smoothly. Begin with Yes is all about setting things in motion and opening new doors. Getting unstuck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New approach to difficulty
- By Valgal on 07-28-22
By: Paul S. Boynton
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Start Finishing
- How to Go from Idea to Done
- By: Charlie Gilkey
- Narrated by: Charlie Gilkey
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 103
Too often we look back at the end of the week and are frustrated that we didn’t make progress on our soul-deep dreams and goals that seem to remain eternally out of reach. Start Finishing presents a 9-step method for success - including identifying your genius, building a success pack of supporters, navigating multiple projects, and overcoming the challenges that come with doing work that matters. Features contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, Jonathan Fields, James Clear, and more.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t finish it
- By Gael Dalton on 11-28-19
By: Charlie Gilkey
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Brainblocks
- Overcoming the 7 Hidden Barriers to Success
- By: Dr. Theo Tsaousides
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Brainblocks are the mental obstacles that keep people from achieving success, defined as setting, pursuing, and achieving a goal. Managing the brain is the solution to preventing mental blocks from interfering with achieving your goals.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not worth my time
- By John W. Bates on 11-03-15
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How to Quit Your Day Job and Live Out Your Dreams
- A Guide to Transforming Your Career
- By: Kenneth Atchity
- Narrated by: Bryan Bendle
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Learn to let go and achieve the life you’ve always dreamed of! Are you a creative person seeking more satisfying work? Do you want to make the transition from a job you find secure but soulless to a life built around your creative dream? Then look no further than this essential guide, written by a tenured professor who quit his job and pursued his dream as a successful "story merchant" and film producer.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not satisfied
- By Frank Kasati on 12-30-22
By: Kenneth Atchity
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How Did I Get So Busy?
- The 28-Day Plan to Free Your Time and Reconnect with What Matters Most
- By: Valorie Burton
- Narrated by: Valorie Burton
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Valorie Burton's How Did I Get So Busy? is the solution for anyone who feels perpetually overwhelmed and overworked: a simple, effective 28-day program to help you rediscover your true priorities, shift out of overdrive, and reclaim your life and schedule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Need a tool that will change your life? Read this!
- By Antonio Regusters on 01-11-18
By: Valorie Burton
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Hell Week
- Seven Days to Be Your Best Self
- By: Erik Bertrand Larssen
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Afghanistan; a successful entrepreneur; and a critically acclaimed performance consultant. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group, and Statoil ASA executives. His life-altering and revered method improves performance by getting people to push themselves past the brink of self-imposed limitations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very practical
- By Sam on 08-27-16
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Procrastination
- Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now
- By: Jane B. Burka PhD, Lenora M. Yuen PhD
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 231
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 192
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Story4 out of 5 stars 193
Based on their workshops and counseling experience, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and at times humorous look at a problem that affects everyone: students and scientists, secretaries and executives, homemakers and salespeople. Procrastination identifies the reasons we put off tasks - fears of failure, success, control, separation, and attachment - and their roots in our childhood and adult experiences.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as an audio book.
- By Lo on 04-13-12
By: Jane B. Burka PhD, and others
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Designing Your Life
- How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
- By: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
- Narrated by: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,670
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,165
In this book Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create lives that are both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of whom or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From a Retired Person's Point Of View
- By ann lom on 09-25-16
By: Bill Burnett, and others
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Exactly Where to Start
- The Practical Guide to Turn Your Big Idea into Reality
- By: Phil M. Jones
- Narrated by: Phil M. Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 143
Exactly Where to Start is a playbook for everyone with a great idea, everyone with a goal in mind, and everyone with a specific destination but no journey. This book coaches you through the journey with precise, actionable steps that help you take that all-important first leap and keep the momentum going. Discard the distractions, break through the overwhelm, and get going for real with this real-world blueprint for turning your vision into reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exactly what I was looking for
- By Anonymous User on 01-06-19
By: Phil M. Jones
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The Art of Non-Conformity
- Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
- By: Chris Guillebeau
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 402
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Story4 out of 5 stars 298
If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," The Art of Non-Conformity is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Redundant
- By Louis on 03-11-11
By: Chris Guillebeau
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The Accidental Creative
- How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Todd Henry
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 448
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 399
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Story4 out of 5 stars 391
It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us, regardless of our role, have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand. Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular podcast, Henry has created a practical method for discovering your personal creative rhythm.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you aren't busy, this book will make ya!
- By Oliver Nielsen on 10-05-13
By: Todd Henry
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Stand Up for Your Life
- By: Cheryl Richardson
- Narrated by: Cheryl Richardson
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 35
On this inspirational, informative, and highly entertaining program, Cheryl teaches you that there are several steps that will lead you to a life of meaning and purpose. When you take these steps, you'll find that a Divine power opens the exact doors you need to step into the light!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Good!
- By Annette on 05-13-16
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Die Empty
- Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Todd Henry
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 829
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 723
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Story4 out of 5 stars 709
Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow to do our most important and valuable work. We fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase the next promotion. But by the end of each day we're often left asking ourselves "did the work I do today really matter?" We feel the ticking of the clock, but we're stuck in first gear, unsure of the path forward and without a road map to guide us.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Deeeeep sigh. And a tired one at that.
- By Oliver Nielsen on 12-25-13
By: Todd Henry
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Happier Now
- By: Nataly Kogan
- Narrated by: Nataly Kogan
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
What if you could be happier, right now, without radically changing your life? As nationally recognized happiness expert Nataly Kogan teaches, happiness is not a nice feeling or a frivolous extra. It’s a critical, non-negotiable ingredient for living a fulfilling, meaningful, and healthy life - and it's a skill that we can all learn and improve through practice. In Happier Now, Nataly shares an illuminating, inspiring, and science-based guide to help you build your happier skills and live with more joy, starting now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book will turn your life around ... TODAY!
- By Joe Barnhill on 06-04-18
By: Nataly Kogan
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The ONE Thing
- The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
- By: Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- Narrated by: Timothy Miller, Claire Hamilton
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,971
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,912
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,774
This is an audiobook for busy people. If you want less on your plate and more for your life and career, tune in to the #1 Wall Street Journal best seller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The ONE Thing will bring your life and your work into focus. Authors Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teach you the tricks to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, dial down stress, and master what matters to you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Helpful Book!
- By Marisela Gutierrez on 04-01-17
By: Gary Keller, and others
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You May Not Need a Mentor
Dale mentiins in the chapter "You May Not Need a Mentor" that mentors don't necessarily need to be people you know in real life. If you love to write music, but you struggle with self-doubt and understanding how to move your creative career forward, this book is the mentor you've been looking for.
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