Eric Maisel - Life Purpose Boot Camp: The 8-Week Breakthrough Plan for Creating a Meaningful Life

From Reviews of Eric Maisels Previous Books

Eric Maisels books should be required reading for anyone involved in the arts, especially students and their teachers. Maisel demystifies the process of creating art.

Theatre Design and Technology

Maisel is a meticulous guide who knows the psychological landscape that artists inhabit.

The Writer magazine

Eric Maisel has made a career out of helping artists, musicians, dancers, and writers cope with the traumas and troubles that are the price of admission to a creative life.

Intuition magazine

Eric Maisel has fused his empirical knowledge of the artistic life with true empathy and support for artists in each of the disciplines.

New Age Journal

Praise for Brainstorm by Eric Maisel and Ann Maisel

[Brainstorm] is a book that should be read by all who want to live their life in a way that is vital and leaves some kind of legacy. Its not about fame and fortune, but rather, about ensuring that this brief span that we have on Earth is one that has value where we leave some kind of impression. Theres nothing that matters more.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

All too often people overlook the basics of a productive life, distracted by multitasking, marketing, and information overload. With this provocative departure from the usual lifestyle manual, the Maisels are out to break us of those tendencies.

Publishers Weekly

Presents a new way of thinking about how to turn brain potential into passion, energy, and genuine accomplishments.

Camille Minichino, physicist and author of the Periodic Table Mysteries

What a pivotal way to experience your brain and all that it can create! I love that this book celebrates and teaches the concept of productive obsession and the multitudinous gifts of brainstorming.

SARK, artist and author of Glad No Matter What and other books (www.PlanetSARK.com)

Praise for Eric Maisels Creativity Coaching

Without Eric Maisels guidance I would never have successfully negotiated the publishing process. With his help, I completed a substantial proposal, landed a good agent, and just saw my first book published!

Nancy Pine, author of Educating Young Giants

Its been an unexpected joy to find someone as creatively supportive and encouraging as Eric Maisel. I didnt know what to expect out of our sessions, and each one is fresh and interesting. Eric is inspirational!

Christine Collister, international recording artist

Eric Maisels insights have helped me with every aspect of my painting career, from the evolution of my market vision to strategies for self-promotion. I also found his help invaluable in feeding my creators soul!

Jonathan Herbert, painter and photographer

I began my novel in one of Eric Maisels Deep Writing workshops, finished it in another, and quickly sold it for a lovely advance. Eric, his individual coaching, and his writing workshops have made all the difference in my writing life.

Eva Weaver, author of The Puppet Boy of Warsaw

Im an executive coach and the author of two books, and Eric Maisel is my coach. No one is better qualified to lead a creative person on his or her creative journey.

Jackee Holder, author of Be Your Own Best Life Coach

NONFICTION

Affirmations for Artists

The Art of the Book Proposal

The Atheists Way

Become a Creativity Coach Now!

Brainstorm

Coaching the Artist Within

Creative Recovery

The Creativity Book

Creativity for Life

Deep Writing

Everyday You

Fearless Creating

A Life in the Arts

Living the Writers Life

Making Your Creative Mark

Mastering Creative Anxiety

Performance Anxiety

The Power of Sleep Thinking

Rethinking Depression

Secrets of a Creativity Coach

Sleep Thinking

Ten Zen Seconds

Toxic Criticism

20 Communication Tips at Work

20 Communication Tips for Families

The Van Gogh Blues

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 Blackbirds of Mulhouse

The Black Narc

Dismay

The Fretful Dancer

The Kingston Papers

Murder in Berlin

Settled

JOURNALS

Artists Speak

Writers and Artists on Devotion

Writers and Artists on Love

MEDITATION DECKS

Everyday Calm

Everyday Creative

Everyday Smart

HOME STUDY COURSE

The Meaning Solution

Copyright 2014 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

Maisel, Eric, date.

Life purpose boot camp : the 8-week breakthrough plan for creating a meaningful life / Eric Maisel.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-60868-306-2 (paperback)

1. Self-actualization (Psychology) 2. Maturation (Psychology) I. Title.

BF637.S4M334 2014

158.1dc23

2014018121

First printing, October 2014

ISBN 978-1-60868-306-2

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For Ann, as always

Welcome to life purpose boot camp, where you will have the chance to choose your life purposes so that you can experience life as more meaningful. You are about to embark on this eight-week journey a journey that will change your life.

This endeavor will require real work, hence the metaphor of boot camp. But it is life-changing work. I know you are busy, that you are tired at the end of the day, and that you cant really take on another thing. But this isnt just another thing. This is a game changer, a life changer, maybe even a lifesaver. I hope you will accept the challenge.

I suspect, since you are holding this book, that you are experiencing some disconnect between the way you are living now and the way you would like to be living. Even if you dont know what your life purposes are, I am guessing that you would like to be more aligned with them. But that is a serious problem, isnt it, not knowing how to name and frame your life purposes? If youre unclear about that pivotal point, how can you aim your life in a more purposeful direction?