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

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The Tools

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

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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
Would recommend watching Stutz on Netflix first, if you can. This audiobook moves effortlessly forward from the documentary conversations between Stutz & Jonah Hill regarding life & the importance of individual & global spirituality in the world. Loved it.

Challenging. Moving. Inspiring. My kind of book.

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Occam’s razor treatment of a varied and complex field, distilling a creative yet effortlessly simple toolset for everyday use.

Well worth listening to and using as guard-rails and aids to help align and realise your life purpose and soul destiny.

Good food for thought on the journey down to London and back home.

Straightforward, Simple, Selective Synthesis

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I bought this audiobook after watching Stutz on Netflix and I’m so so glad I did. There was something about Phil Stutz that I immediately loved! I new he was my next teacher. I am always serendipitously led to each teacher I find. I know it’s the universe leading me on my path. Wow this book and the ideas and tools are a breath of fresh air. For years I followed the ideas from The Secret and although they helped me be aware of my thoughts and negativity and pushed me to be much more positive I knew there was something not quite right about just being positive and visualising. It never worked the way I hoped it would and of course I couldn’t admit that, because that would be too negative! Catch 22!

This book explains what I had been feeling for a long time now. These tools are so concise and quick and easy I am already feeling the benefit only having done them while listening to the book. I can’t wait to see what happens and I am going to print them out and use them daily and never stop!

Thank you so much Phil for creating these tools and and thank you so much Barry for explaining them and inspiring me with your wonderful story. I’m sending you a lot of gratitude and love. ❤️

Finally the totally useable tools to make life better!

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So much to recommend about this book. I look forward to incorporating its wisdom into my life.

Incredible wisdom, in a practicable format

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My therapist is also using the tools, but now I understand her methods better! Everyone should read this book or listen to it at least 2-3 times a year! I also love the fact that the authors are part of it fully!

Absolutely amazed!

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