Choose Your Life Purposes: A Step by Step Guide to Self Awareness, Empowerment, and Success (Personal Development Books) - Softcover

Maisel PhD, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1684816068 ISBN 13: 9781684816064

Publisher: TMA Press, 2024

Synopsis

Go on a Journey Towards Personal Growth and Unlock Your Life’s Purpose

Unravel the myth of a singular life purpose ingrained in religious teachings and societal notions

#1 New Release in Free Will & Determinism Philosophy

Liberate yourself from the "life purpose trap." Leading life coach, regular contributor to Psychology Today, and renowned author Eric Maisel presents a contemporary philosophy that challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding how to live.

Discover the transformative philosophy of Choose Your Life Purposes. Explore the step-by-step process to identify your core values, unlocking what truly matters to you. This groundbreaking book empowers you to embrace multiple life purposes, fostering personal growth and awareness. No longer confined to endless seeking, you'll learn to live life now, irrespective of circumstances.

How to live your best life. Explore the art of crafting life purpose statements, mantras, and icons to reinforce your choices. Make living with purpose a daily practice, transforming your life into a purpose-filled journey. Say goodbye to fruitless searches for meaning and embark on a personal growth revolution.

Inside:

• Learn how to develop your personal values list
• Create a personal roadmap for a fulfilling and purposeful existence
• Have a guide at your fingertips on how to live with purpose daily
• Learn how to handle existential crises
• Acquire new tools to heal depression, anxiety, and addiction

If you liked From Strength to Strength, How to Ikigai, or Creating a Life That Matters, you’ll love Choose Your Life Purposes.

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About the Author

Eric Maisel, a retired family therapist and active creativity coach, is the author of 50+ books and developer of the philosophy of life known as kirism. In 2020 Unleashing the Artist Within, The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives, Lighting the Way, and The Power of Daily Practice appeared. In 2021, Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists and Clients, The Great Book of Journaling, and Redesign Your Mind appeared.

Dr. Maisel, widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach, has writing extensively on the challenges of the creative life. His books in this area include Fearless Creating, Coaching the Artist Within, Creative Recovery, The Van Gogh Blues, and Mastering Creative Anxiety. His books specifically for writers include Deep Writing, Write Mind, Living the Writer’s Life, A Writer’s Space, A Writer’s Paris, and A Writer’s San Francisco.

Dr. Maisel also writes extensively in the areas known as critical psychology and critical psychiatry, where he is a thought-leader and advocate for significant shifts in mental health paradigms and practices. His books in this area include Rethinking Depression (New World Library), The Future of Mental Health (Routledge), and Humane Helping (Routledge).

Among his other books for mental health professionals are Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed and Different Children, 60 Innovative Cognitive Strategies for the Bright, the Sensitive and the Creative, and Helping Survivors of Authoritarian Parents, Siblings and Partners, all from Routledge.

Dr. Maisel leads workshops for writers online and around the world in locations like London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, Rome and Prague. He writes the “Rethinking Mental Health” blog for Psychology Today (with 3 million views) and three weekly blogs for The Good Men Project, including “Redesign Your Mind” and “Kirism Today.”

Dr. Maisel trains creativity coaches, runs support groups for creativity coaches, and provides keynotes for organizations like the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry. He divides his time between Walnut Creek, California, where he and his wife live, and Belmont, California, where his grandkid babysitting skills are required.

You can visit Dr. Maisel at www.ericmaisel.com, contact him at ericmaisel@hotmail.com, subscribe to his weekly newsletter at https://ericmaisel.com/newsletter/, and be automatically notified about his new blog posts at https://authory.com/ericmaisel

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

From “Chapter 59: How Exactly?”

Let us imagine that you’ve arrived at the following place. You’ve generated a list of the things that are important to you. You’ve done some thinking about your motivation for choosing these in particular. You think some more, nod your head, and ratify these as your current life purpose choices. Maybe you’ve got three or five or seven or nine life purpose choices named. And now?

Now, you will need to explain to yourself how each life purpose choice will be lived. How will “creativity” actually be expressed? Or intimacy? Or health? Or service? Or parenting? It isn’t enough to say, “I’m committed to being more creative.” To stop there is to stop too soon.

You must ask yourself, “How exactly?” How exactly am I being creative? How exactly am I adding intimacy to my life? How exactly am I “working on my health?” How exactly do I intend to be of service? How exactly do I intend to improve my parenting skills? How exactly?

Exactly means exactly. Human beings tend to keep these matters vague, because, as long as they are vague, they produce no work, they take no time, and they require no real commitment. “I intend to be of service” and “I intend to spend four hours a week volunteering at the local emergency infant nursery” are like, well, night and day.

Vague is “Creativity is one of my life purpose choices.” Less vague is, “And that means, I want to write.” Less vague than that is, “I think it’s going to be fiction.” Less vague than that is, “And by fiction, I mean a novel.” Are we there? No, not quite.

A would-be writer could remain in the place of “I mean to write a novel” for decades. That is a common place to hang out, tormented by the desire to write a novel, aware that a life purpose choice is slipping on by, but nevertheless adamantly committed to not naming that novel.

“How exactly?” That’s the ticket! What an eloquent, beautiful question. That you are asking it says so much about where you are! It means that you’re primed. It means that you’re motivated. It means that you’re ready or getting ready. Excellent!

Edition details

• Publisher: TMA Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684816068
• ISBN 13: 9781684816064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208