Synopses & Reviews
In response to the contemporary life stressors and distractions that leave so many suffering depression, anxiety, and exhaustion, best-selling psychotherapist and creativity coach Eric Maisel offers an alternative to years in therapy or a meaningless life an eight-week intensive program that breaks through barriers and offers insights for living each day with purpose. An army veteran and former drill sergeant, Maisel uses the boot camp metaphor to encourage readers to show up for themselves, just as new recruits are compelled to show up for basic training. Paralleling the boot camp processes of drilling, exercising, and digging deep, Maisel helps readers identify their life purposes and then align every action with those purposes. The psychological heavy-lifting Maisel outlines, including Upgrading Your Personality, Dealing with Your Circumstances, and Creating Your Life Purpose Statement, leaves readers self-aware, self-confident, and fully living their best possible lives.
Review
Bored? Lost? Fed up?
Life Purpose Boot Camp is for you. But dont expect a find-purpose-quick formula; you actually have to do the work! Stick it out and discover whats important in your life and how you can make the most of it.” — Sarah S.
I emerged after eight weeks with a clear statement of life purpose for the first time, after years of confusion, plus an upgraded personality that provides me with the stamina to actually live it.” — Christine H.
By using the tactics taught in Life Purpose Boot Camp I am making great progress in all areas of my life — the personal, the professional, and, best of all, the emotional!” — Martin M.
Creating a more meaningful life is essential for anyone, but especially for creative people, and this book will take you step by step. This camp kicks butt, in a good, meaningful way!” — Janine T.
The work is fun, challenging, and rewarding, leading to direct results in the advancement of personal life goals.” — Jill J.
Synopsis
A no-excuses, cut-to-the-chase program for defining, training for, and achieving your goalsAs life gets busier and more complicated we crave something larger and more meaningful than just ticking another item off our to-do list. In the past, weve looked to religion or outside guidance for that sense of purpose, but today fewer people are fulfilled by traditional approaches to meaning. Bestselling author, psychotherapist, and creativity coach Eric Maisel offers an alternative: an eight-week intensive that breaks through barriers and offers insights for living each day with purpose. Once you understand how meaning operates, how meaning and life purpose are related, and what concrete steps you can take toward fulfilling your purpose, you will never run out of meaning again. This program will develop self-awareness and self-confidence and give you what you need to fully live the best possible life.
About the Author
Eric Maisel, PhD, is a licensed psychotherapist, international workshop leader, and critically-acclaimed author and has recently become a recognized leader in the field of meaning and life purpose. His groundbreaking book
The Van Gogh Blues, a finalist for a prestigious Books for a Better Life Award, explained the relationship between an artists craving for meaningful work and his experience of depression. His book
Rethinking Depression took to task the current proliferation of mental disorder labels. In his
Rethinking Psychology blog for
Psychology Today online he reaches tens of thousands of readers with his insights about meaning, life purpose, and mental health.
In addition to Maisels many academic and professional credentials and accomplishments, he actually served as an Army platoon sergeant and drill sergeant! He brings the metaphor of boot camp to life because he knows what basic training is all about and how it inculcates new habits powerfully and quickly.
Maisel is also a seasoned public speaker who presents workshops at all the major workshop centers (Esalen, Kripalu, Omega, Hollyhock, Rowe, the Open Center, and workshop locations worldwide), has conducted hundreds of radio interviews, has been quoted, interviewed or profiled in scores of print outlets, and has appeared on television shows as diverse as To Tell The Truth and Thinking Allowed.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Welcome to Life Purpose Boot Camp
Week 1. Creating Your Menu of Meaning Opportunities
Week 2. Creating Your Mix of Meaning Opportunities
Week 3. Upgrading Your Personality
Week 4. Dealing with Your Circumstances
Week 5. Naming Your Life Purposes
Week 6. Creating Your Life Purpose Statement
Week 7. Creating Your Life Purpose Icon and Mantra
Week 8. Living Your Life Purposes
Your Final Report
About the Author