Eric Maisel

Choose Your Life Purposes (eBook, ePUB)

A Step-By-Step Guide to Awareness, Empowerment and Success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 toPsychology 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 FromStrength to Strength, How to Ikigai, or Creating a Life That Matters, you'll love Choose Your Life Purposes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Books That Save Lives
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781684816071
• Artikelnr.: 75680539

Autorenporträt

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 [e-mail], subscribe to his weekly newsletter at https://ericmaisel.com/newsletter/, and be automatically notified about his new blog posts at https://authory.com/ericmaisel

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
A Few Words at the Beginning
1. Not a Puppet, Not a Robot
2. Boom!
3. Even More of Nothing
4. Boys Sword-fighting
5. One Thumb Up
6. You Leap. Boom!
7. Formed Personality
8. Kittens, Puppies, and You
9. Thank Goodness!
10. Can A Bostonian Ever Leave Boston?
11. Energy Wisdom
12. Crouching Tiger
13. The Flip Side
14. Individuality
15. A Row of Tanks
16. Suppression
17. A Bright Light, A Step to the Side
18. The Study of Knots
19. Attaching/Detaching
20. Ethics and The Selfish Gene
21. The Humanistic Tangle
22. Values!
23. And the World
24. The World and Sorrow
25. One Teenager
26. Mystery
27. Interlude
28. As If It Were Step-by-Step
29. On Broadway
30. Always Troubled
31. Three Lists
32. Huddled in a Bunker
33. Brick Walls and Rollercoasters
34. First Choosing
35. Classic Life Purpose Choices
36. Classic Choices: Achievement and Excellence
37. Classic Choices: Experimentation
38. Classic Choices: Self-Actualization
39. Classic Choices: Relaxation and Pleasure
40. Classic Choices: Service and Stewardship
41. Classic Choices: Activism and Rebellion
42. Classic Choices: Appreciation and Gratitude
43. Classic Choices: Ways of Being
44. Classic Choices: Ethical Action
45. Classic Choices: Marrying Choices
46. Second Choosing
47. Challenge 1: The Elephant in the Room
48. Challenge 2: Many Too-Small Purposes
49. Challenge 3: No Purposes at All
50. The Wrong Question
51. When Meaning Vanishes
52. The Double Whammy
53. Challenge 4: Strangely Important
54. Challenge 5: Formerly Important
55. Challenges 6 to Infinity
56. Value-Based Choosing
57. Opening to New Choices
58. Third Choosing
59. How Exactly?
60. A Curated Week
61. Interlude II
62. Support 1: Your Life Purposes Statement
63. Support 2: Your Life Purposes Icon
64. Support 3: Your Life Purposes Mantra
65. Support 4: Your Life Purposes Journal
66. 8 Practices
67. Punctuations of Joy
68. Negotiating Each Day
69. Navigating Each Day
70. Changed Circumstances
71. The Long Haul 1: The Anxiety of Choosing
72. The Long Haul 2: Age and Stage
73. The Long Haul 3: A Succession of Successes
74. The Poignancy and Beauty of Choosing
75. Life, Chosen
Acknowledgments
About the Author