Happy Man Books

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No More Mr. Nice Guy

Are you trying too hard to please others while neglecting your own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness? Have a satisfying sex life, embrace your masculinity, and form meaningful relationships with other men, to live up to your potential.

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Hold Onto Your NUTs

Hold On to Your N.U.T.s can help build a life that fulfills both you and your partner by showing you how to confirm the ideas and causes you support—your Non-negotiable, Unalterable Terms. Your N.U.T.s become the framework for how you conduct your relationships.

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Men, Women, and Worthiness

Shame researcher, Brené Brown reveals that both men and women feel shame the same, but what triggers shame for men and women is different. This book drags shame into the light and give insights for dealing with it.



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Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

Are you afraid of making decisions...asking your boss for a raise...committing to a relationship...going on an interview...public speaking...facing the future?

Whatever your fears, this classic guide will give you concrete tools and insights to improve your ability to handle any situation life throws at you.



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Confidence

When you think of confidence, you might automatically imagine high profile business leaders, high paid athletes, famous celebrities, or other successful people who are accomplished professionally, but in this book Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. defines confidence in three key areas of life as behavioral, emotional, and spiritual confidence. Understanding and mastering confidence in these areas is life changing.

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The Self-Esteem Workbook

Learn to see yourself through loving eyes by realizing that you are inherently worthy, and that comparison-based self-criticism is not a true measure of your value.

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The Six Pillars of Self Esteem

The material contained in this book is sound. There are no ‘quick fixes or effortless solutions’. This book is a game-changer. For those willing to be honest with themselves and do the work and apply the practices of Self-Awareness, Self-Acceptance, Self-Assertiveness, Self-Responsibility, Self-Integrity and Living Purposefully, I can guarantee that your life will change dramatically within a month of doing the exercises.

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The Four Agreements

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

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Addicted To The Monkey Mind

Most of us are caught in endless, self-sabotaging cycles of programmed ways of thinking because we’ve been taught that external factors determine our experience. By applying the skills of the Observing Mind, you will finally actualize the things you’ve been deeply longing for in your life: a substance-free lifestyle, healthy relationships, a thriving career, and a healthy body and mind.

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor.

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The Power of NOW

Too often, we allow our mind to consume our present moment. And in doing so, we fail to recognize the difference between our thoughts about reality and reality itself. The Power of Now shows you that every minute you spend worrying about the future or regretting the past is a minute lost, because really all you have to live in is the present, the now, and gives you actionable strategies to start living every minute as it occurs.

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Being The Strong Man A Woman Wants

Being the Strong Man A Woman Wants shares insights about being a man that many men today were not taught. Challenging confusing messages of the past 40 years, it explains why many relationships today are not working and what a man can do on his own to make things better with the woman in his life.

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The Masculine In Relationship

Fighting or defending yourself doesn’t resolve anything. Withdrawing into work or your phone just makes it worse. And contorting yourself to avoid conflict just kills her respect for you. The answer is to develop and live from your Masculine core. This book shows you how in an actionable three-part framework: Respond vs. React, Provide Structure, and Create Safety. This is not the old model based on control, but a modern model based in clarity and leadership.

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Way Of The Superior Man

The Way of the Superior Man shares lessons on “how a man can grow spiritually while passionately tussling with the challenges of women, work, and sexual desire,” Today, men of all ages continue to struggle with these universal challenges, and the practical insights found in this book will help each one of us to give the gifts we were born to give.

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The Unchained Man

If you’re a man who doesn’t make enough money, has trouble attracting women, has problems maintaining quality relationships with women, has difficulty hitting your big goals, has work that consumes too much of your life, has trouble staying motivated, tends to have lots of “drama” in your relationships …then this book was written for YOU.

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The Amazing Development of Men

The stages of men's development describe the lifelong process by which a man's sense of self evolves. These stages determine what men live for and what they can't live without. Understanding the differences between knights, princes, and kings is critical for success in romantic relationships, raising sons, and working effectively with men.

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Beyond Success & Failure

Beyond Success & Failure helps you to find your direction and your ability to handle any and all confronting problems. Learn to find your center of gravity inside yourself and begin to know the satisfaction that flows from using your own talents and living as a responsible adult.



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King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

Redefining age-old concepts of masculinity, Jungian analysts Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette make the argument that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative, and empowering of the self and others. Moore and Gillette clearly define the four mature male archetypes that stand out through myth and literature across history.

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The Relationship Handbook

Unlike most relationship counselors, Dr. Pransky doesn't recommend "working" on a relationship. In this book he challenges everything you thought you knew about how to be happy with your partner. Each chapter exposes a popular, but destructive, misconception about relationships and provides a new understanding that can give troubled couples the fresh start they need.

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The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work

Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages.

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I Hear You

In this three-hour, conversational listen, you'll discover the whats, whys, and hows of one of the most valuable communication skills - validation.

Whether you're looking to improve your relationship with your spouse, navigate difficult conversations at work, or connect on a deeper level with friends and family, this book delivers simple, practical, proven techniques for improving any relationship in your life.

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Celebrating Partnership

Learn a step-by-step process for creating powerful, fulfilling partnerships with all the men and women in your life.

Apply Alison's unique understanding of how differently men and women think, speak, listen, collaborate, and approach planning and implementation.

Use Alison's "Let's Make a Deal" method to leave everyone grinning in unprecedented satisfaction.

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In Sync with the Opposite Sex

If you're dating: Learn the benchmarks and timelines of dating and relationships, so you don't blow it. If you're married or in a long-term relationship: Uncover miscommunications that have wrecked havoc in your relationship and fix them.



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Necessary Endings

In this insightful and deeply empathetic book, Dr. Cloud demonstrates that, when executed well, necessary endings allow us to proactively correct the bad and the broken in our lives in order to make room for the professional and personal growth we seek. However, when endings are avoided or handled poorly–as is too often the case–good opportunities may be lost, and misery repeated.

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Codependent No More

For anyone struggling with a relationship involving alchoholism or other compulsive behaviors, this program points the way to healing and the renewal of hope. Melody Beattie's insights into the nature of the phenomenon of codependency will guide you step by step to the understanding that letting go will set you free.


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The Language of Letting Go

These daily meditations offer growth and renewal, and remind us that the best thing we can do is take responsibility for our own self-care. Melody Beattie integrates her own life experiences and fundamental recovery reflections in this unique daily meditation book written especially for those of us who struggle with the issue of codependency.

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Understanding Women

After more than a decade of helping women understand men, Alison Armstrong has unraveled the complexities of women. With this audio workshop, you will: Be surprised by the reason women are compelled to multitask. Learn to repair hurt feelings and save you both from the "Rage Monster"...and much more!

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The Man's Guide To Women

Based on 40 years of research, The Man’s Guide to Women unlocks the mystery of how to attract, satisfy, and succeed with a woman for a lifetime. For the first time ever, there is a science-based answer to the age-old question: What do women really want in a man?


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What Women Want Men To Know

Barbara DeAngelis reveals everything women want men to know about loving and understanding the woman in their life. What Women Want Men to Know explains everything women feel about love, communication, sex and intimacy that they've always wished men would know.

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Real Love

In Real Love, you’ll discover the difference between Imitation Love and Real Love, how to eliminate conflicts with spouses, children, parents, friends and colleagues, how to put an end to destructive “Getting” and “Protecting” behaviors, how Real Love can eliminate anger, resentment, and fear, the four steps to finding Real Love.

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Perfect Love. Imperfect Relationships.

Learn how all our relational problems arise out of a universal, core wounding around love that affects not only our personal relationships but the quality of life in our world as a whole. This wounding shuts down our capacity to trust, so that even though we may hunger for love, we have difficulty opening to it.

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The 5 Love Languages

Unhappiness in marriage often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages, believes Dr. Gary Chapman. While working as a marriage counselor for more than 30 years, he identified five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. In a friendly, often humorous style, he unpacks each one.

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Open Her

Open Her teaches you how to embody 7 Masculine Archetypes to engage your woman in a deeper, more passionate dance of love. Each archetype brings a power and a gift, a secret key to your woman’s love and desire. Open Her will inspire you to love your masculinity and to know the power it holds to open a woman to ever deepening states of pleasure and love.

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She Comes First

“When it comes to pleasuring women and conversing in the language of love, cunnilingus should be every man’s native tongue,” writes clinical sexologist Ian Kerner, Ph.D. in She Comes First, a straightforward, intimate, and exuberant guide to cunnilingus.

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Come As You Are

Emily Nagoski offers science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.

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The Heart of Tantric Sex

After many years of exploration, Diana Richardson found that the ancient practice of Tantra, with its unique, intelligent approach to sex, had the effect of enhancing intimacy and deepening love. Tantric sex can transform your experience into a more sensual, loving, and fulfilling one.

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You Are A Badass

In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want.

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You Are A Badass At Making Money

You Are a Badass at Making Money will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation - over just a few years - from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style.

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The Slight Edge

The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you.

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Loving What Is 

Loving What Is shows you step by step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. In this revised edition, readers will enjoy seven new dialogues, or real examples of Katie doing The Work with people to discover the root cause of their suffering. You will observe people work their way through a broad range of human problems, learning freedom through the very thoughts that had caused their suffering.

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Embracing Your Inner Critic

The inner critic has been talking to us since childhood, it speaks with the authority of a parent or any individual who has had a formative role in our lives.

Through examples and exercises, learn how to recognize the critic, how to avoid or minimize "critic attacks," and, most important, how the inner critic can become an intelligent, perceptive, and supportive partner in your life.

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Becoming Nobody

Who am I? You may have asked yourself this question many times. You may still be asking yourself this question. Are you your job, your marriage, your degrees, your house, your car, your bank account? Or are you none of those things in search of a deeper understanding and place of calm, confident, grounded-ness? Read Becoming Nobody and learn to let go of roles, titles, and a false sense of self.

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Horses Never Lie

In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of "alpha leadership" and teaches the listener to become a "passive leader" - a counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow. Applying Rashid’s principles and techniques helps cultivate horse personalities that are responsive and dependable regardless of the rider.

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