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

    By Eric Maisel

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    Learn the #1 Secret of the Most Successful Pros: Daily Practice

    Eric Maisel knows from experience and observation that the single most crucial element of success for any endeavor is a regular, daily practice. Dr. Maisel, a preeminent creativity coach, therapist, and acclaimed author, shows how and why to implement a daily practice and addresses common challenges. His experience working with bestselling writers, entrepreneurs, musicians, actors, visual artists, recovering addicts, and rehabilitation patients shows as he outlines various ways to approach a daily practice and goes on to help you build a version of this important discipline that suits your life and goals. Real-world stories and practical examples will help you make measurable progress and build satisfaction in your most cherished pursuits.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781608687077
    The Power of Daily Practice: How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals
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    Eric Maisel

    Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of numerous books, including Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues, and Coaching the Artist Within. A licensed psychotherapist, he reaches thousands through his Psychology Today and Fine Art America blogs, his print column in Professional Artist magazine, and workshops in the United States and abroad. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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      The Power of Daily Practice - Eric Maisel

      important.

      FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

      Q. What is a daily practice?

      A. A daily practice is the formal way you pay daily attention to something that is important to you. You can have more than one daily practice if several things are important to you — say, writing your novel, maintaining your recovery from an alcohol addiction, and practicing yoga. It is a time carved out from the day when you pay real attention, it has a beginning and an end, and it is characterized by certain elements of practice that are described in detail in part I.

      Q. Well, then, isn’t a daily practice the same as writing every day or meditating every day?

      A. Not exactly, though if you are writing every day or meditating every day you probably do have a daily practice in place. Daily practice is time you carve out independent of what you do with that time. It is the very idea of carving out time. It could have any sort of content, anything you find important. It is like having a drawer in your dresser that you dedicate to your important things and that always contains something worth keeping separate from everything else. What’s in the drawer may change, but you don’t put junk in it. Maybe it’s even empty sometimes. But it’s still separate from all the other drawers, special, if you like that word, or sacred, if you like that word. Picture that dedicated drawer, sometimes filled with one valuable thing, sometimes filled with another valuable thing. That’s daily practice.

      Q. But doesn’t that mean that the content of a daily practice might change every day? Where’s the consistency or power in that?

      A. While theoretically the content could change frequently or daily, in practice it won’t. This isn’t like changing hats or changing your mind. Your intention is to pursue something important — namely, living your life purposes — and while your life purposes may and do change, they do not change daily. If one of your life purposes is to get your novel written, that life purpose doesn’t change daily. If one of your life purposes is to maintain recovery from an alcohol addiction, that life purpose doesn’t change daily. If one of your life purposes is to defend liberty, that life purpose doesn’t change daily. So you will not be constantly changing the content of your practice. You will be working on that novel month in and month out, paying attention to your recovery month in and month out, or being an activist in support of liberty month in and month out. That’s where the power and consistency come from, from your intention to live your life

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