“Owning less is great, wanting less is even better” – Joshua Becker

Best-selling author of Simplify and Clutter Free With Kids, Joshua Becker, reaches 350,000 readers every month through his blog, Becoming Minimalist.a

Whether you enjoy the idea of a life that embraces simplicity or not, Joshua’s story, insights and simple strategies can help you to learn how he has benefited from a life less cluttered.

Own less, achieve more.

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http://www.becomingminimalist.com/

Here’s the challenge:

Living in a busy, distracting world, with information overload, can feel overwhelming.

These challenges are greater still when there are so many new ideas to play with: we don’t know where to start - or even where to finish - when it comes to managing our creative projects

With so many other responsibilities this can all lead to stress and anxiety.

Yet we all seem to crave is peace, happiness and the space to create: to find and fulfil our true purpose.

In this special short action episode, mindfulness coach, Shakya Kumara, offers two brief exercises that you can try and actively engage in as you listen.

This is an easy opportunity to get a sense of mindfulness in practice and to gauge how it could help you.

Hear how to begin to achieve a happier, more peaceful and more creative life.

Shakya is a specialist who helps people to improve their quality of life through the reduction of anxiety, overwhelm and stress.

Hear the full interview with Shakya and more of his story (and more exercises) here.

http://www.briefmindfulness.com/courses/quickstart

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Shakya Kumara, is a specialist who helps people to improve their quality of life through the reduction of anxiety, overwhelm and stress.

He’s also a Bhuddist who enjoys nature and discovering everyday ordinary beauty through photography.

As a leadership and management coach who specialises in mindfulness, Shakya has a rich and diverse background.

His background includes having working with charities and multi-national companies across the globe. He has a fascinating story to tell.

In this special episode, Shakya offers exercises that you can actively engage in as you listen, as well as live demonstrations of mindfulness in practice.

Hear how mindfulness can help you to creative a more fulfilling life.

http://www.briefmindfulness.com/courses/quickstart

http://www.briefmindfulness.com/

http://www.inspirationalcreatives.com/podcast/

Author, Amanda Turner, has created a life being able to write whilst living in different countries around the world with her family.

As with any creative project:

Any writer knows that writing isn’t always easy...

In episode 179, Amanda shared her story and experiences as an author and part-time digital nomad.

Offering insights into her own writing and creative practice, Amanda shares how she gets her creative work done.

Despite a multitude of distractions, and her own resistance, hear how she overcomes creative paralysis and what some people call writers block.

http://www.inspirationalcreatives.com/podcast

http://www.vagabondingwithkids.com/

http://www.akturner.com/

In this short action episode, author and part-time digital nomad, Amanda Turner shares how she avoids distraction to keep focussed on the creative work that matters to her.

In episode 177, Amanda shared her own story and experience describing how she has created a life that she loves; one that comes with its own unique challenges.

As an author and as a mother who spends long periods of time away from home with her family, how does she find time to write?

Seemingly getting the best of both worlds, Amanda lives in exciting new places across the globe, with her family, whilst writing books, and she gets her work done.

Hear how in this short action episode.

http://www.inspirationalcreatives.com/podcast

http://www.akturner.com/

Amanda Turner is a writer, a mum, an author and a part-time digital nomad.

Despite many close calls with publishing houses, today she is a New York Times bestselling author.

All she needs is a pen and paper (or a laptop and an internet connection) and an inspiring place to live.

Having written a number of books that have received acclaim, Amanda is the author of a series of books called Vagabonding with kids, having developed a life living part-time on the road.

When not at their home base in Idaho, she works whilst living across the globe with her husband and two children.

In this episode, part one of our two-part chat, Amanda reveals the reality of writing multiple books whilst visiting many countries and how she remains focussed when there’s so much to do and see.

Hear how her young children receive an education and how travel has affected their characters and personalities.

http://www.inspirationalcreatives.com/podcast

http://www.akturner.com/

Creative people struggle because they’re either stuck starting or struggling to launch a new idea, product or service.

Yet there’s a little-known formula to making big ideas a reality and getting things done.

In this short action episode of Inspirational Creatives, you’ll learn how you can make your big ideas happen in just four simple steps.

Creative entrepreneur and social sidekick podcaster, Laurie Solgon shared in episode 175 how she focusses to get things done.

http://www.inspirationalcreatives.com/podcast

http://SocialSidekickPodcast.com

Laurie Solgon is a podcaster, blogger, software engineer, and web designer who has worked at various Fortune 500 companies.

She established her Social Sidekick podcast in 2015 having lost her job.

Whilst looking for a new job, Laurie realised that her journey could help others who desired to be their own boss too.

In this episode, Laurie reveals how she transitioned from computer professional along to creative entrepreneur and why she’s decided to write a book about letters between her parents, from the war, for herself.

Hear where Laurie, although a self-proclaimed introvert, finds her confidence for public speaking and how podcasting has helped her to navigate an ever-evolving life journey following her curiosity.

Also, what ideas Laurie would give for those looking to find their own destiny.

http://www.inspirationalcreatives.com/podcast

http://SocialSidekickPodcast.com