The prosperous heart : creating a life of "enough"

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The prosperous heart : creating a life of "enough"

Author:

Cameron, Julia.

ISBN:

9781585428977

9780399161988

Publication Information:

New York : G.P. Putnams Sons, 2011.

Physical Description:

224 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction -- How to use this book -- The basic tools -- Week one: the money myth -- Week two: having enough -- Week three: trusting -- Week four: cleaning house -- Week five: finding community -- Week six: kindness -- Week seven: forgiveness -- Week eight: velocity -- Week nine: generosity -- Week ten: staying on course -- Week eleven: prosperity and our dreams -- Week twelve: the prosperity plan -- Epilogue: starting over -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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Cameron presents a twelve-week program to guide you to true prosperity: possessing a prosperous heart and the ability that afford you to see clearly-- and appreciate-- the aspects of your life that are truly valuable.

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A dynamic new creative-renewal program from the woman who has inspired millions to discover and recover their creative souls.

In The Prosperous Heart , Julia Cameron presents a ten-week program for using your creative heart and soul to lead you to prosperity in all the areas of your life. With inspiring new daily tools and strategies that follow in the footsteps of Cameron's groundbreaking The Artist's Way, this book guides readers in developing a life that is as full and as satisfying as they ever thought possible.

Drawing on her decades of experience working with artists as an expert on the creative process, Cameron shines a clear light on the path to forging a direct relationship between the passion that ignites our creative work and the more practical aspects of living our lives (for example, how one can keep a roof over their head without losing track of their soul!) In this wise volume, Cameron gives readers the courage and permission to live their lives as they create their art: purposely and fully.

Author Notes

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of more than thirty books, fiction and nonfiction, including her bestselling works on the creative process: The Artist's Way, Walking in This World , and Finding Water . A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

Author and teacher of creativity for 35 years, Cameron (The Artist's Way) has realized that the common lament of being a "starving artist" is rooted in the perception that prosperity equates with a financial bottom line. Rather, she says, prosperity is a spiritual bottom line that affects all areas of life. "The opposite of prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety. When we are possessed of a prosperous heart, we do not act rashly out of anxiety... we respond to life rather than merely react to it. Doing so, we find our lives are filled with choices." Decades of working with students inspired Cameron to dismantle the negativity contemporary culture encourages and design a practical 12-week program that requires only an authentic willingness to explore personal relationships with money and to cultivate the qualities that engender a prosperous heart and fulfilling life. Inspiring stories of how money affects people's lives accompany tools, exercises, and strategies for discovering the true meaning of prosperity and abundance in this uplifting and beneficial guide. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Cameron (The Artist's Way) has written a book addressed to our times, offering advice on how to begin to fulfill one's dreams in times of recession or austerity. As much workbook as essay (thus potentially problematic for libraries), Cameron's book is filled with encouraging phrases, "check-ins," lists to read, and lists to complete. Surprisingly spare of illustration-given Cameron's reputation as an artist-this book emphasizes her work as motivator and writer and urges us all to believe that a generous universe will eventually reward our disciplined efforts to live both within our means and closer to our goals. VERDICT While this book is unlikely to find the wide international audience of her Artist's Way, it should appeal to many creative spirits seeking guidance. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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