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7 Secret Sources of Inspiration: A Snappy Guide for Creative Procrastinators Paperback – April 26, 2016

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Have you spent your life delaying the creative call? You probably told yourself “One day, when the time is right, I’m going to…”The time is right now Your voice matters. You just need some motivation.This book will help you to:•Understand why this is the best time for your creative expression. •Leverage your life experiences and preserve your perspective through expressive solutions.•Identify emotional influencers you can tap for a creative kick in the butt. The costs have never been lower, but the stakes are only getting higher. You don’t know how much time you have left, so start as soon as you possibly can. Every month you delay is a month you’re tempting fate.Don’t wait to create.Let the world know who you are and what you think.

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April 26, 2016
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5 x 0.19 x 8 inches
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0692700811
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"Reading 7 Secret Sources of Inspiration: A Snappy Guide for Creative Procrastinators has helped me think of more creative ways to interview artists and writers in my work as an art critic. I highly recommend this book for art critics and practicing artists/writers." -- Dr. Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Pamunkey), Cultural Survival Quarterly Arts Editor

"It is the right length and it certainly kept my attention! Your experiences were impressive. I felt that you were talking directly to me." -- Acclaimed Mixed Media Artist

"This book is very timely for me." -- Jet-setting Writer

"Getting off my arse NOW!" -- Award-winning Filmmaker

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Alexei Auld provides solution-oriented counsel an attorney, consultant, bestselling author, and host of the internationally acclaimed IF I DID IT podcast. The nexus to where his worlds collide is alexeiauld.com

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ TemRose Publishing; 1st edition (April 26, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 76 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692700811
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0692700815
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.36 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.19 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,743,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Alexei Auld wrangles kerfuffles as host of the internationally acclaimed IF THE SHOES FIT at https://www.youtube.com/c/IfTheShoesFit. He grew up in a family of thirty artists and authored bestselling novels and screenplays which have been selected for the Sundance Institute, Fondo Del Sol's Still Here! Contemporary Powhatan Artists and Writers Exhibition, and the Independent Feature Project. In addition, Alexei conducts workshops and lectures to sell-out crowds across the country. He enjoys great relationships with audiences and clients given his understanding of creative professionals and provide solution-oriented counsel that inspires creative problem solving.

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Angela Fernandez

Makes you want to get your butt off the couch and CREATE!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2021

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I must admit I expected this book to be similar to others in this genre, but WOW! The author’s distinct voice and point of view cuts through the BS and gets to the heart of the matter in a funny, concise and inspirational way. Before I finished reading this book I started putting pen to paper on a creative project I have had on “percolating mode” for years. Don’t waste another second - go ahead and purchase this book. You won’t regret it. (And you will wish you bought it sooner).

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MBDC

Recovery for Creative Procrastinators like me

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2016

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Alexei Auld knows the story of my creative existence for the past 3, 5, uh maybe 10 years too well. Maybe your's too. After reading 7 Secret Sources of Inspiration: A Snappy Guide for Creative Procrastinators, I got off my butt and went to one of my 3rd spaces to work on a script I hadn't touched for months. And guess what? There's no fear in just doing it. In fact writing feels good. Really good. Why don't I do it more often. Alexei's book tells you why and ways to turn your bad habits into inspiration. Truth be told, time is not on your side. It's always about NOW. There are no excuses say Alexei with so many tools to create and distribute your work. 7 Secret Sources of Inspiration is your next read after Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Because every creative procrastinator knows, once we go into the 12 week "The Artist's Way" recovery, sooner or later we fall off the wagon and go back to our old habits and creative insecurities. That's when you have to call in the reinforcements. 7 Secret Sources may reduce your 12 week creative recovery to one weekend. Heck, I even dusted off my synthesizer.

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Kristin Faivre

worth reading, be inspired!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2016

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Great, motivational, inspiration, kick in the creative butt, read! I've been turning over the idea to start my own small business, and this book came at a good time, to get me moving in that direction. Super fast read, full of direct experience from Alexei Auld helps to understand and relate.

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Walter Riley

Be Inspired!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2016

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An excellent guide to inspire and motivative creative people! Go out and tell your story to the world!

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Sometimes you need a gentle nudge. Sometimes you need a swift kick.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2016

Sometimes you need a gentle nudge to follow through with creative endeavors. Sometimes you need a swift kick. 7 Secrets leans toward the swift kick, but in a no nonsense, gentle tone that you can't get out of your head when you engage in time wasting activities.
I've taken care of my parents the past decade and used that as an excuse to procrastinate with my personal projects. Thanks to this book, I can no longer binge watch or google-monger with joy at the end of a long, hard day. I have to devote twice as much time to unfinished projects as I do to chill time to appease my guilty conscience. Also, I re-read snappy snippets once or twice a week to stay on track. At this rate, an 11 year old project will be complete in a few months and the next project will be completed in a much shorter time frame.

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Shernette Linton

Worth reading, and re-reading!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 9, 2016

I really, really like this book.
Why? Because its incisive conversational style pulled me in from the very first sentence and held my attention to the last, because even while it held my attention it simultaneously made me want to hastily put it aside to go searching through the electronic graveyard of my half-finished stories and transform one of them from a “what if” into a “what is,” because it quickly became clear that its message can be applied to any area of my life where self-doubt percolates and procrastination infiltrates.
I’ve read it twice and plan to re-read whenever my inspirational tank threatens to run low. It's an easy enough read.
I am glad the author got the chance to make good on his hospital-bed vow to preserve his stories and pass them on, because this Snappy Guide is a story worth reading. And re-reading!

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Kay Oxendine

7 Secret Sources of Inspiration Rocks!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2016

This book should be named "Get Off Your Damn Butt and Write, Right Now!" because that is what it did to me. I actually had just started my gofundme page to obtain 3 months worth of expenses so that I could write the stories that are singing in my head! I titled it, It is Time 2 Write my Story [...] Being a single mom, there is little time to sit and do anything, especially with son who has been ill. Reading Alexei's book made me stop everything and I have already written the first in a series of children's books, which is one of the projects I have just prayed over. The books have been burning inside my soul, and I am so thankful that Alexei's book came along to give me that kick and realize the urgency of this venture! Thank you Alexei!

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Sara Sarakanti

Inspirational, motivational AND actionable!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2016

This book was very inspirational and motivational. As someone who is quite busy living in the big city, I find it hard to make time for the creative pursuits that make me happy. This book is short enough for procrastinators like me that don't have time to read a lengthy, heavy book. The tips are witty, actionable and bite-sized, and there's no excuse for procrastinators NOT to read this book! Life is short, and as Alexei knows every minute counts. Don't waste one more minute, buy this book and unleash the creativity you've been holding back all this time.

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