Ebook: Coaching the artist within: advice for writers, actors, visual artists & musicians from America's foremost creativity coach

Exercise 1: Chatting with yourself -- Exercise 2: Deciding to matter -- Exercise 3: Arriving at your life purpose statement -- Exercise 4: Holding the intention to fulfill your life purposes -- Exercise 5: Noticing anxious self-talk -- Exercise 6: Using affirmations as thought substitutes -- Exercise 7: Embracing dualities -- Exercise 8: Eliminating dualities -- Exercise 9: Contemplating mental energy -- Exercise 10: Cultivating positive obsessions -- Exercise 11: Creating in the middle of things -- Exercise 12: Drop everything -- Exercise 13: Breathing and thinking -- Exercise 14: Practicing the centering sequence -- Exercise 15: Thinking clearly about process -- Exercise 16: Honoring goal-oriented process -- Exercise 17: Growing your anxiety awareness -- Exercise 18: The tao of anxiety -- Exercise 19: Agreeing to plan -- Exercise 20: Creating your everyday plan and your long-term-plan -- Exercise 21: The dream-it, do-it dance -- Exercise 22: Upholding the dream -- Exercise 23: Your creativity kit -- Exercise 24: Becoming a meaning expert.;Coaching the Artist Within contains a dozen simple lessons. Eric Maisel, a leading creativity coach, writes each one with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore and reflect on underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create. Topics include committing, planning and doing, generating mental energy, achieving a centered presence, becoming an anxiety expert, upholding your dream, and maintaining a creative life. Maisel has worked extensively with creative people - poets, filmmakers, novelists, dancers - and he revisits some of them in coaching sessions in San Francisco, Paris, London, and New York. Typical are the rock musician who wants to pursue a solo career and the screenwriter anxious to become a poet. Their examples both entertain and instruct, outlining how to discover one's personal muse - and the motivation to keep creating.