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5 Life-Changing Techniques to Unlock Your Potential – The Sunday Times Bestseller

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The Tools

Written by: Phil Stutz, Barry Michels
Narrated by: Barry Michels, Phil Stutz
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Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth and find courage, inspiration, success, and happiness with the empowering bestseller from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Can you imagine what your life would be like if you could tap into a new source of power - one that has been inside you all along - to solve your own problems and become the master of your life?

Between them, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels have over 60 years of psychotherapeutic experience, helping A-list Hollywood clients work through whatever has held them back ­- be it insecurity, trauma, anger, lack of willpower, negativity or avoidance - to achieve their greatest work and find a deep level of fulfilment.

Now, in The Tools, the acclaimed clinicians are sharing their life-changing methods, offering a dynamic, results-oriented practice to help you unlock your potential.

Through five simple techniques - The Reversal of Desire, Active Love, Inner Authority, The Grateful Flow and Jeopardy – the authors show you how to:

  • Get unstuck: Master the things you are avoiding and live in forward motion
  • Control anger: Free yourself from rage and never-ending grudges
  • Express yourself: Learn the secret of true confidence and find your authentic voice
  • Combat anxiety: Stop obsessive worrying and negative thinking
  • Find discipline: Activate willpower and make the most of every minute.


Astonishingly effective and beautifully simple, this book will give you everything you need to propel yourself forward to achieve your ambitions and be who you were born to be.

‘My life has gotten immeasurably better as a result of working with Stutz’ Jonah Hill, Academy Award nominated actor

© Barry Michels and Phil Stutz 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012

 Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Self-Help Success
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Critic Reviews

Hollywood's "open secret"
Barry Michels and Phil Stutz are profoundly talented guides to the inner workings of the psyche. The Tools is breakthrough material that ignites your own capacity to transform your life.
Every single thing I've written of any power or merit came through using the tools Barry taught me. Usually counterintuitive, sometimes dangerous, they only changed my life.
The clear, user-friendly approach plus a belief that ‘the power of higher forces is absolutely real’ is a winning combination. Here is the rare self-help book that doesn’t end with the self.
The Tools is the new über-bible of life techniques. And it WORKS!
The tools helped me just like I wanted them to.
This summer’s most talked-about life-coaching book ... Every so often, a book comes along that crosses over from the self-help shelves and becomes a phenomenon, giving us a new perspective on some of the problems life has a nasty habit of throwing at us. It’s about to happen with The Tools, a reinvention of the classic self-help manual that has had the Easy Living office buzzing ever since it landed on our desks.
Confront and solve problems head-on
All stars
Most relevant
Amazing book. insightful !! I encountered major challenges at work and weight management. It ended my procrastination habit.
Than you Phil and Michael for this brilliance!

inner authority

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This book deals with how we can harness the higher forces of the Universe to evolve into better, happier, more successful human beings. Filled with anecdotes & a few practical tools.

Practical Tools are interesting!

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It may not be taken in a positive way by many. But this book is an under dog - not all best sellers only need to be read. There are some books that are hidden gems - and this book is one

Underrated and new stuff

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Loved it. One of the most Transformational book ever. Practical tools to transform you

I've had the privilege of receiving a personal therapy session from Barry Michels himself. And it was so so helpful.

The tools here are simple and easy to use on a daily basis.

Just go for it. Read. Listen. Apply. Transform

This will TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE

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Well thanks to Netflix, I first got introduced to Phil Stutz and his tools through the documentary. Big cheers to Jonah for making that. These are absolutely crucial ideas that should be shared with every human being especially teenagers of 16+ years of age to prepare them for a life full of challenges, disappointments, and failures that will make you anxious and depressed. I didn't have a mentor who told me this. I was stuck in the maze for years, I was overwhelmed by pain but not anymore.

This stuff is Gold.

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