Eric Maisel - The Power of Daily Practice: How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals

Praise for The Power of Daily Practice

The Power of Daily Practice has radically changed my practice and my thinking, evoking a richer and more expansive understanding of the possibilities and the power of daily practice. Coaches, therapists, and lifestyle medicine professionals will find The Power of Daily Practice a wonderful resource. I plan to use it as a primary text in all the wellness classes I teach!

Kathleen Jones, certified health and wellness coach

Eric Maisels new book, The Power of Daily Practice, is a constellation of practical magic for anyone wanting to create and make more things real. Every page is like an ignition switch, and the whole book is a big paper mentor encouraging and supporting you all the time.

SARK, author and artist, PlanetSARK.com

In The Power of Daily Practice, Eric Maisel does more than illustrate why a daily practice can be any creative persons (that means all of us) most powerful tool. He also gives us, point by inspiring point, components that make up such a practice. He leads would-be practitioners through a variety of potential daily practices that can enrich their lives. Finally, with generosity and clarity, Maisel offers practical solutions and creative ideas to meet any challenges along the way. This is an altogether complete and invigorating manual for living a rich and meaningful life, day in and day out.

Judy Reeves, author of A Writers Book of Days and Wild Women, Wild Voices

The Power of Daily Practice is the most powerful and comprehensive guide to the art and benefits of daily practice that I have ever seen. It is all you need to cultivate a life-enriching practice of your own. Read this inspiring book, and you will see your daily life, and what you choose to include in it, in new, vastly expanded ways!

Lynda Monk, director of the International Association for Journal Writing

Creators intuitively understand the benefits of paying daily attention to their art. Eric Maisel spells out those benefits in his brilliant new book, The Power of Daily Practice. He describes every element of practice, what challenges to expect, and what you can do to meet those challenges. Every visual artist, every writer, every composer every creative person must get his or her hands on this astonishingly good book.

Roccie Hill, executive director of the Mendocino Art Center

Blending his roles as philosopher, psychotherapist, masterful creativity coach, and human being, Eric Maisel invites us into a life of deeper purpose and abundant joy through the power of daily practice. Thank you, Eric, for this comprehensive, inspiring book. Its right on time!

Jacob Nordby, author of The Creative Cure

Creating a daily practice and engaging in it is proving to be an enormously rewarding, life-changing, and exciting experience for me. Im very much looking forward to deepening my experience in the months to come. Ive found The Power of Daily Practice to be a highly effective guide and an invaluable resource filled with practical advice, engaging stories, and real wisdom. Ive built a rewarding daily practice, and finally Im making progress toward my business, personal growth, educational, and artistic goals.

Ann Debontridder, international ESL teacher

The Power of Daily Practice encouraged me to bring reverence to my daily practices, elevating their meaning and bringing real possibility to my life. My daily practices now truly reflect my goals in life and have given me a satisfying framework for living my most productive and meaningful life possible.

Elena Greco, singer, creativity coach, and holistic counselor

THE POWER OF
DAILY PRACTICE

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The Creativity Book

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The Creativity Workbook for Coaches and Creatives

Deep Writing

Everyday You

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The Future of Mental Health

Hearing Critical Voices

Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children

Helping Survivors of Authoritarian Parents, Siblings, and Partners

Humane Helping

Inside Creativity Coaching

Life Purpose Boot Camp

The Life Purpose Diet

Living the Writers Life

The Magic of Sleep Thinking

Making Your Creative Mark

Mastering Creative Anxiety

Overcoming Your Difficult Family

Performance Anxiety

Redesign Your Mind (forthcoming)

Rethinking Depression

Secrets of a Creativity Coach

Ten Zen Seconds

Toxic Criticism

20 Communication Tips at Work

20 Communication Tips for Families

60 Innovative Cognitive Strategies for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative

The Van Gogh Blues

Unleashing the Artist Within

What Would Your Character Do?

Why Smart People Hurt

Write Mind

A Writers Paris

A Writers San Francisco

A Writers Space

FICTION

Aster Lynn

The Black Narc

The Blackbirds of Mulhouse

Dismay

The Fretful Dancer

The Kingston Papers

Murder in Berlin

The Pen

Settled

JOURNALS

Artists Speak

Writers and Artists on Devotion

Writers and Artists on Love

MEDITATION DECKS

Everyday Calm

Everyday Creative

Everyday Smart

PROGRAMS

Diet Like You Mean It!

Mastering the One-Person Business

THE POWER OF DAILY PRACTICE

How Creative and Performing Artists
(and Everyone Else)
Can Finally Meet Their Goals

ERIC MAISEL, PHD

New World Library
Novato, California

Copyright 2020 by Eric Maisel

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Maisel, Eric, date, author.

Title: The power of daily practice : how creative and performing artists (and everyone else) can finally meet their goals / Eric Maisel, PHD.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, [2020] | Summary: In The Power of Daily Practice, a creativity coach discusses the value of mindful daily practice as a method of self-improvement in all facets of life, with examples drawn from art, music, literature, athletics, political activism, and business. Each chapter includes case studies and questions for reflection. -- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020018371 (print) | LCCN 2020018372 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608687060 (paperback) | ISBN 9781608687077 (epub)