- Summary: The Power of Habit
The key to a healthier, more productive life and achieving success in business and society is: understanding how habits work. In this book, Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed. - Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Covey shares his ideology on habits and how to be an effective individual in his book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. It’s an approach to change oneself based on principles and character. - Summary: The Artist’s Way
Cameron helps individuals recover their creativity by embarking on a spiritual exploration. Even though you weren’t the ‘Rainbow Pen Doodle Master’ in grade school, ‘The Artist’s Way’ applies to anyone who wants to overcome creative blocks..
The Artist’s Way: 12 Week Program
There are moments in life where you face creative blocks, blank canvas syndrome, barriers of inspiration, Mose Mai Monkey syndrome, or whatever you’d like to name it.
‘The Artist’s Way’ is a 12 week program created by Julia Cameron. Embark on a spiritual exploration to reconnect with your inner child. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to face your inner and outer conflicts.
Even though you weren’t the ‘Rainbow Pen Doodle Master’ in grade school, this program applies to anyone who wants to overcome creative blocks as well as bad habits and inhibitions.
- Summary: The Artist’s Way
Cameron helps individuals recover their creativity by embarking on a spiritual exploration. Even though you weren’t the ‘Rainbow Pen Doodle Master’ in grade school, ‘The Artist’s Way’ applies to anyone who wants to overcome creative blocks.. - The Artist’s Way – Week 1 – Recovering a Sense of Safety
This week starts the recovery of your creative self by recovering a sense of safety and explore creativity without feeling too constrained by resistance and scepticism. - The Artist’s Way – Week 2 – Recovering a Sense of Identity
Week 2 focuses on recovering a sense of personal identity. A strong sense of identity gives us the strength to weather the storms of obstacles, conflicts, and uncertainty. - The Artist’s Way – Week 3 – Recovering a Sense of Power
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” If only things were easier done than said in the face of adversity. Life doesn’t come with rainbows and unicorns. Shit happens. - The Artist’s Way – Week 4 – Recovering a Sense of Integrity
Integrity is one of the key ingredients to a happy life guided by an unwavering moral compass. It is the quality of being truthful and having strong values as well as moral principles. What are your values and moral principles? - The Artist’s Way – Week 5 – Recovering a Sense of Possibility
This week, we’ll look at the cost of settling for appearing good. We’ll look at ways to free ourselves from constraints that block our creative flow. The main goal is to recover the sense of limitless possibilities for authenticity in personal growth. - The Artist’s Way – Week 6 – Recovering a Sense of Abundance
What does living a rich life mean to you? This week is about recovering a sense of abundance. We’ll be handling the in-dwelling creative force within you by opening up to greater creativity. We’ll explore the ways in which certain attitudes limit abundance and luxury in life. - The Artist’s Way – Week 7 – Recovering a Sense of Connection
Congratulations to those who passed the half way mark of this beautiful journey! Practice the right attitudes for creativity to excavate areas that obstruct genuine interest as you connect with personal dreams. Punch perfectionism in the face and take a leap of moving into a new artistic territory. - The Artist’s Way – Week 8 – Recovering a Sense of Strength
This week tackles another major creative block – time – by identifying immediate and practical changes that can be made in your current life. Also, we’ll be focusing on excavating the behaviors and thoughts that may have conditioned you to settle for less than you desire for your life. - The Artist’s Way – Week 9 – Recovering a Sense of Compassion
Resist ‘Creative U-turns’, face your fears, and blast through internal conflicts. This week focuses on facing internal blocks to creativity and resisting the temptation to abandon ship by exploring and acknowledging emotional difficulties that beset us in the past. Week 9 is all about self-compassion. - The Artist’s Way – Week 10 – Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection
Explore the perils that can ambush you on your creative path ‘The Dangers of the Trail’ and weed out toxic patterns blocking your creative flow: workaholism, drugs, drought, fame, competition. Enter week 10 of The Artist’s Way: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection. - The Artist’s Way – Week 11 – Recovering a Sense of Autonomy
This week is all about artistic autonomy. Focus on artistic autonomy by nurturing and accepting yourself as an artist. Examine behaviors that strengthen your spiritual base (your creative power). Handle success without sabotaging freedom, consider ‘The Zen of Sports’, and build your ‘Artist’s Altar’. - The Artist’s Way – Week 12 – Recovering a Sense of Faith
Acknowledge the inner inherently mysterious and spiritual heart of creativity. Trust the inner guide by nurturing and accepting yourself as an artist. Value ‘Imagination at Play’ by exploring behaviors that can strengthen the spiritual base and creative power within oneself. Achieve ‘Escape Velocity’ by looking at ways in which success must be handled to prevent self-sabotaging freedom. - The Artist’s Way – Reflection
Inside every adult is an inner child that most of us forget along the way of adulthood. And most creative blocks, bad habits and inhibitions oftentimes stem from things that may have happened in your childhood. The Artist’s Way is a beautiful spiritual journey to recover your creativity by embracing your inner child. The purpose of the book is to help anyone who would like to overcome creative blocks as well as bad habits and inhibitions. It’s been quite a journey of this summary of The Artist’s Way and it may be a lot to process. Let’s have a quick glance over this journey.
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