Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 We don’t need to know our life’s purpose to live with a purpose. We are already living with a strong sense of purpose, and to reveal this purpose, we just need to examine our choices. #2 The three questions that determine what we do every day are: Why did we do it. Why are we doing it. What purpose does it serve. The answers to these questions will reveal the golden thread that connects all of our choices together. #3 We all want to maintain a comfortable level of existence, and if you're like most people, you may tolerate a lot of nonsense in order to stay in your comfort zone. #4 We all want a sense of certainty about what’s going on and what’s going to happen. We all want a sense of stability and the ability to control what’s happening. And we most certainly don’t want to lose something we have or miss out on something we don’t yet have.
Most Men Will Allow Fear to Get the Best of Them. This Book is Not for Most Men. We live in a world with more possibilities than ever before. So why do most settle for cookie-cutter lives that leave them feeling stuck, drained, and uninspired? This Book Will Make You Dangerous is for the rare, few men who refuse to sleepwalk through life.
After Eric Davis spent over 16 years in the military, including a decade in the SEAL Teams, his family was more than used to his absence on deployments and secret missions that could obscure his whereabouts for months at a time. Without a father figure in his own life since the age of fifteen, Eric was desperate to maintain the bonds he’d fought so hard to forge when his children were young—particularly with his son, Jason, because he knew how difficult it was to face the challenge of becoming a man on one’s own. Unfortunately, Eric learned the hard way that Quality Time doesn’t always show up in Quantity Time. Facebook, television, phones, video games, school, jobs, friends—they all got in the way of a real, meaningful father-son relationship. It was time to take action. As a SEAL, Eric learned to innovate and push boundaries, allowing him to function at levels beyond what was expected, comfortable, ordinary, and even imaginable, and he knew that as a father he needed to do the same with his son. Meeting extreme with extreme was the only answer. Using a unique blend of discipline, leadership, adventure, and grace, Eric and his SEAL brothers will teach you how to connect, and reconnect, with your sons and learn how to raise real men—the Navy SEAL way.
The relationship teacher, coach, and founder of The Relationship School reveals the origins of conflict styles, how to stop avoiding difficult conversations, and how to resolve conflict in our most important relationships. Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we could lose our marriage, our family or our job, all connected to our security and survival. So we do just about anything not to lose those relationships, including avoid conflict, betraying ourselves or becoming dishonest. Unresolved conflict affects every single aspect of our lives, from self-confidence to physical and mental health. Jayson Gaddis is a personal trainer for relationships and one of the world’s leading authorities on interpersonal conflict. For almost two decades, Gaddis has helped individuals, couples, and teams get to the bottom of their deepest conflicts. He helps people see the wisdom in conflict and how to get to zero—which means we have successfully worked through our conflict and have nothing in the way of a good connection. In Getting to Zero, Gaddis shows the reader how to stop running away from uncomfortable conversations and instead learn how to work through them. Through funny personal stories, uncomfortable examples, and effective tools and skills, he shows the reader how to move from disconnection to connection, acceptance, and understanding. This method upgrades the old tired and static conflict resolution approaches and offers a fresh, street-level, user-friendly road map on exactly how to work through conflict with the people you care most about.
★★★Are you determined to never settle for a life of mediocrity, of being average, letting life slip by and never truly reaching your full potential? Are you constantly seeking ways to better yourself and know that you must bring your "A-game" because people depend on you? Do you just want to make positive lifestyle changes and become more focused?★★★ You know that unless you take care of your health, make the right choices with your money, build deep relationships with those around you, and keep your mind sharp, you won't truly enjoy the type of life you desire. Dak wrote this book with the following people in mind: ✓ Young men who want to build the type of life they can be proud of ✓ Husbands & dads with families who depend on them and look to them for leadership ✓ Men who are tired of being successful in their careers, yet unfulfilled in their personal lives ✓ Men who want to enjoy a deeper, more satisfying marriage and learn how to better love their wives and steer clear of the pitfalls that so often divide people ✓ Men who have been knocked down by life who are on a mission to make a comeback ✓ Not just men, but the women who love them and need to understand life from a man's perspective and learn how to better support and encourage them ✓ Men who are constantly seeking ways to grow and want to become more intentional about reaching their goals Young Men Seeking Guidance & Direction Young men face challenges as they work toward building a life of their own, and often face tough decisions that come along with that responsibility. If you have a son or grandson you care about who's in this stage of life, you can help him gain a clearer sense of direction and purpose by encouraging him to read this book. Get valuable lessons on how to become a better man, along with useful tips for dealing with stress and anxiety. This book could also serve as a useful resource in providing tips for nee dads to help them get their lives in order to be able to show up the way they need to foe those who depend on them. For Heroes Who Serve Many of the men we call heroes rightfully receive recognition and awards for their willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of others, while at the same time feel like they're losing in their personal lives. Having a successful career is one thing; being fulfilled and satisfied in your personal life is another. Through his personal story, Dak will inspire you to look beyond your past failures and realize that no matter what stage you're at in life, God can turn things around and do the unimaginable. This book has a faith aspect to it that will cause you to think deeply about the direction of your life and help you clarify your priorities. Many of the chapters include reflection questions and exercises so you can immediately start applying what you read to your life. What Makes this book enjoyable: ✓ Short & concise chapters packed with a lot of value, which makes it easy to quickly squeeze in a chapter or two ✓ Down-to-earth, straightforward language that's easy to understand ✓ Author is transparent about his own challenges and struggles, which help you connect with him on a more personal level ✓ Interesting stories that not only make you laugh, but also provoke deep thought and motivate you to take action ✓ Wide range of topics covered: health, finances, spirituality and faith, mindset, dealing with stress, relationships, starting a business, etc. ✓ Not just surface level: this book goes deep and will challenge you to be a better man ◆This book is all about elevating your mindset, building the right types of habits, and learning how to better relate to those around you. Dak wrote this book because he genuinely wants to help you, and can almost promise that you'll experience growth in many areas of your life as a result of reading this book◆ ★★★Purchase this book for you or someone you care about and want to help★★★
“The tools Barry and Phil teach in Coming Alive gave me the courage and clarity to align myself with the truth—no matter how hard or painful it seemed at the time.”—Gwyneth Paltrow Tap into the Life Force with this critical and contemporary guide to unlocking our most powerful selves—from the bestselling authors of The Tools (and Goop’s resident shrinks). Phil Stutz and Barry Michels’s tools will be featured in an upcoming Netflix original documentary directed by Jonah Hill and co-produced by Joaquin Phoenix In The Tools, Michels and Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth. Now, in Coming Alive, they guide readers toward a wellspring of positive energy: the source of creativity, renewal, and engagement. The first step in gaining mastery over one’s life—in deepening both emotional and spiritual experiences—is identifying the enemy within, which Michels and Stutz have named Part X. This formidable adversary is a shape-shifter: it may be the voice in your head that is a torrent of negativity; it may take the form of outside forces that conspire against you. In whatever guise it appears, Part X aims to derail your progress, keep you small and stuck, and defeat hope. The four vital tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force—a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement—and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. Drawing insights from their decades of psychotherapeutic practice, their lived experience, and their moving and generous understanding of our interconnectedness, Michels and Stutz have created a paradigm-shifting guide to achieving optimal mental health and spiritual well-being. Praise for Coming Alive “What a gift! A riveting exploration of four (bone-chillingly relatable) modern ailments and their thrillingly practical solutions . . . Singular in its approach and deeply spiritual in its concerns, Coming Alive is a book I’ll be pressing on friends and foes alike.”—Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse. Informed by Lanier’s experience and expertise as a computer scientist, You Are Not a Gadget discusses the technical and cultural problems that have unwittingly risen from programming choices—such as the nature of user identity—that were “locked-in” at the birth of digital media and considers what a future based on current design philosophies will bring. With the proliferation of social networks, cloud-based data storage systems, and Web 2.0 designs that elevate the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and wisdom of individuals, his message has never been more urgent.
You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book. What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their fascinating answers. From quantum weirdness to freaky cosmology (like white holes - which spew out matter instead of sucking it in),This Book Will Blow Your Mind takes you on an epic journey to the furthest extremes of science, to the things you never thought possible. This book will explain: Why is part of the universe missing (and how scientists finally found it) How time might also flow backwards How human head transplants might be possible (in the very near future) Whether the universe is a hologram And why we are all zombies Filled with counterintuitive stories and factoids you can't wait to share, as well as lots of did-you-knows and plenty of how-did-we-ever-not-knows, this new book from the bestselling New Scientist series will blow your mind - and then put it back together again.
Jim Lanier had a good life going: a great family, a successful pathologist, a sometimes singer. Then he went to the dogs, ran the Iditarod in 1979, and has never recovered. With that ‘79 race as the book’s backbone, Jim tells its tale—entertaining, exciting, occasionally informative, and mostly the truth. From the bustle of metropolitan Anchorage to Front Street in Nome, it’s no how to do. If anything, it’s a how not to—how not to prepare, how not to train, how not to run. On the other hand, it’s how not to give in to the urge to quit when the going gets tough, in life and in this metaphorical Iditarod.
"You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we're better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms"--
