Creative Change

In Communicate for Change, journalist and communication consultant Genelle Aldred offers suggestions and guidance to help us be better listeners, readers, watchers, and talkers. With insight drawn from years of experience, she breaks down the barriers to effective conversation so we can communicate in a more nuanced, thoughtful way and understand our part in bringing about a more just society. Thought-provoking and stimulating, it lays out how we can take that next step from learning and talking about anti-racism and unconscious bias to putting it into practice.

Disrupting for Good shares powerful stories you've never heard about people like you who are taking on the challenges around them and reshaping lives. From a preschool teacher creating a cross generational program with a nearby nursing home to a young girl cleaning up the trash in her neighborhood, these stories proclaim the truth: anyone can make positive change. Our world is in desperate need of people who talk less and do more. Change in our own lives and those around us begins when we ask good questions and then dream, dare, and do.

This audiobook contains many tried and true ways a daily reading habit can create happiness and benefit you in countless other ways. The audiobook offers many suggestions about how to add reading to your daily routine and even more reasons to keep you motivated to continue reading books that will enrich your life and inspire you to look for your true passions and choose happiness.

Starting a garden in an arid climate can feel overwhelming. But here’s the secret: thriving in dry conditions isn’t about using more water—it’s about using smarter techniques, the right plants, and effective irrigation strategies.

Introducing you to the basic principles of psychology and its applications. Does fear hold you back from what you want? Do you feel like you are stuck in an automatic routine that just won’t change no matter what actions you try to take? Maybe you can’t even visualize what “outside” of your daily routine? What about your daily thoughts, ever wonder why you think the way you do?

Veteran community organizer Paul Born's work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new book, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to make significant progress on seemingly intractable community problems.

Michael J. Gelb is the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He shows you how to rethink the way you think by helping you discover your natural ability to create, communicate, and lead in every area of your life - from designing a dinner party to mapping out your life goals, from running a more effective business meeting to improving memory and increasing your creative power.

Introducing "Social Media Influencer: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Profitable Social Media Influencer Career" - your indispensable blueprint designed to navigate the intricacies of the social media landscape effectively. This guide is enriched with strategies endorsed by industry experts, beneficial for both novices and veterans in the influencer domain, aiming to guide you through the competitive social media environment.

The Power of Pivoting is here to teach you how to not only deal with unexpected life changes, but embrace the crap out of them! Relationships? Career? Pivoting during a global crisis, yep covered! It's time to use your pivots to create a life you actually love!

Stuck in a rut? Living Groundhog Day? Break free with a few simple habits. Imagine spending more time on things that matter. Your passions, hobbies, and creative deep work. Would it surprise you to know you’d be happier and more productive?

I Cannot Get This Wrong is an exploration of how to live with anxiety, a blueprint for collective healing, and a joyful celebration of hope and transformation. It’s for you no matter how you move through the world. No matter your journey so far. No matter your childhood. No matter the beautiful, unique intersectionality of your identity. No matter how isolated you feel right now.

Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us.

Leading change is not about breaking things - it’s about using empathy to enrich the world. In Empathy for Change: How to Create an Understanding World, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society.

These are declarations of love. They are honest. They are simple. The poems vow to take the honouree and put them up on a pedestal. Nothing can really promise, like a poem of words on a piece of paper. It can be handwritten, it can be typed. As long as it's legible, it will be heard, and hopefully appreciated.These can be used to woo someone, if you can't find the words in your own mind. They can help direct you as to how you too can put your thoughts and ideas and plans on the line, by putting them out there to be heard. When confusion sets in, the pen to a paper is always an amazing ...

This book will give you the techniques that will allow you to change your bad habits for good; you will learn about the different ways that highly effective habits can be used to attract money, health, and overall happiness into your life.

Are you ready to align your career with your true strengths and discover your profitable niche? Find Your Profitable Niche is your essential guide to uncovering the areas where your unique abilities meet market demand. This book offers actionable insights on identifying the paths of least resistance, allowing you to develop a fulfilling, long-term career that reflects your purpose. Have you ever wondered how to identify the opportunities that fit your personality? Are you curious about how to stand out and add value to your niche? This book answers these questions and more. Key chapters ...

Personal relationships are key to success: In a time when workplaces are becoming more digital and more automated every day, our mindsets and our personal relationships will determine whether we succeed in tomorrow’s markets. In the coming years, the human success factor will determine who is among the winners and who is among the losers. All business adventures start with a focus on the self. When you know who you are and develop a deep sense of confidence in yourself, you’ll have the flexibility to roll with the punches.

Not as patient as you think you are? Surprised by how quickly you lose your cool when someone shows you an imagined show of disrespect? All we can do in those situations is react. But why do we do what we do? How can we improve our actions? Repeated bad behavior becomes a bad habit. How can we break this vicious cycle? Often we know what’s wrong in our behavior, we even know how could we fix it, but somehow we never take action to change. Some mental triggers stay hidden from our conscious mind. This book bridges the gap between those two by introducing you to gears of human behavior.

We need a revolution - a talking revolution. We need a massive, worldwide improvement in how we communicate. How we talk to each other. How we listen to each other. How we understand and are understood by each other. We’ve had a revolution in the technology that connects us around the world, in the hardware and the software - now we need a revolution in the "humanware", the quality of how we actually communicate with each other, one to one. Better personal relationships, more effective group dynamics, greater social, and political cohesion - we can have them all.

If you had super powers how would you control them? What is the crumbliest thing in the world? Is houmous made from wasps? What would the Queen sound like if she sang? What funny questions six-year-olds come out with! As educators and parents we seem to answer thousands of them a day. But could they be more important than we realise? What if there’s more to them than just an expression of an excitable imagination? Where could these questions lead and how do we keep them coming? By recording a list of one child’s questions, we explore how this curiosity could fuel future creativity, we ...