The book that finally explains why trying harder doesn't work.
How to Stop Kidnapping Yourself is based on a true story—and yours can be next! This is Michael Anthony's signature work—the neuroscience-backed way out of the patterns that are keeping you stuck in “almost.”
The Permanent Way to Change Your Life
How to Stop Kidnapping Yourself: Break Free from Anxiety, Overthinking, Self-Sabotage & Bad Habits
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About the Book
↑ Self-doubt. Negative thoughts. Feelings that hijack your day. The things you swore you’d stop—or start—but haven’t.
You’re almost happy. Almost successful. Almost the person you were meant to be. And you’re starting to fear that “almost” is as good as it gets.
You thought it was your circumstances. The economy. The people around you. It’s none of those. The thing running your life is the last place you’d look: your own thoughts, self-talk, and the stories you keep telling yourself. They don’t just shape how you feel—they determine the life you live.
Michael Anthony knows. His nearly destroyed him. He'd been kidnapped—not by someone else. By his own mind. And he didn't even know it.
This book is based on a true story—and yours can be next.
This isn't a book that tells you to try harder. It's the one that explains why trying harder doesn't work—and gives you the neuroscience-backed way out. Permanently.
Stop kidnapping yourself. Start living the life you were designed for—not the one you’ve been settling for.
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For Christian readers . . .
A Call for Courage: Living with Power, Truth, and Love in an Age of Intolerance and Fear
Foreword by George Barna.
Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2018.
The antidote for fear, apathy, and inaction
Christians in America and around the world need a sweeping revolution of courage in their lives, families and churches. A Call for Courage will spark that revolution in you. Drawing from what the Bible teaches, and deep personal experience, Michael Anthony reveals the secrets to putting fear in its place and living with power, truth, and love as your new way of life.
Foreword by George Barna. Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2018.
This book is a call to personal revival, to confess and forsake any known sin and any doubtful habit. It is also a call to obey God in both the private and public moments of our life. I pray that this book blesses many.
Professor and Program Head of Spiritual Formation and Discipleship, Moody Theological Seminary
↑ Praise for the Book
A Call for Courage is the book we have all been waiting for. It's timely, prophetic, and yet very practical. Do you want to live with power, truth, and love in these increasingly difficult times? Then get this book and apply what you'll learn to your life!
New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and filmmaker
If you're only going to read one book this year, read A Call for Courage. I've known Michael Anthony for over twenty-five years, and can attest that he passionately embodies the message of this book. He's not merely courageous; he's fearless because he fears God more than people.
Professor, Author, Pastor
A practical 'how to' salt-and-light manual in the darkness, a courageous and truthful journal on reversing the curse by faith with God's agape love—a must-read!
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↑ The Prayer Journal built for a man—and the battles only he knows he's fighting.
He carries more than he says. The pressure to provide. The quiet fear he isn't measuring up. And underneath it, the lies that steal his potential: I'm on my own. God's disappointed in me. I'll never really break through.
He doesn't need another book to read. He needs a place to be honest — and a God who answers.
This is a guided prayer journal, not a devotional and not a blank notebook. Fifty-two weeks. Two pages a week. Scripture on one side, room for his own words on the other. Undated, so he starts the week he opens it.
It goes straight at the “ground zero” issues a man faces:
- Uncertainty about his identity and self-worth
- Isolation, discouragement and the fear of failure
- Expressing himself in emotionally healthy ways
- Leading and serving with courage, truth and love
- Fighting the daily spiritual warfare every man knows is real
- Enjoying God's presence and walking in His power daily
GETTING THIS FOR A MAN YOU LOVE? You've watched him carry it alone. You've wanted to hand him something that actually helps — not another book that sits on the nightstand with a bookmark stuck on page nine.
Every godly man you've admired had one thing in common: a real, daily, honest walk with God. That walk starts here.
Get the life-altaring prayer journal for men today—and start winning the battles that matter most.