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Patrick King
About this listen
Stand your ground without guilt, fear, or awkward tension. Finally get what you deserve and stop letting it slide.
Who is making your life choices for you? Make sure you possess the everyday assertiveness to choose for yourself and resist the pressures from all angles of life. You’ve put yourself last your entire life. It’s time for that to change.
Stop enabling, people pleasing, and being so agreeable. The Art of Everyday Assertiveness is a guide for the chronically nice, overwhelmed, and accommodating. It is a deep psychological dive into what makes us lack assertiveness and how to systematically combat those compulsions. It’s a book that stands apart from others because of the plethora of real-life examples and solutions.
If your problem is assertiveness, you’ll find the step-by-step answer in this book. Included is a 28-day assertiveness action plan unlike any other. Gain respect, set boundaries, and ask for what you really want.
Patrick King is an internationally best-selling author and social skills coach. His writing draws on a variety of sources, including research, academic experience, coaching, and real-life experience. He’s also a recovering people pleaser who knows exactly how it feels to feel unable to speak his mind.
Stop putting others first and being taken advantage of.
- How to balance assertiveness, accommodation, and agreeableness
- How to practice self-acceptance, prioritization, and empathy
- The instinct to over-apologize and how to fix it
- The reasons that keep you compliant and willing
- How to decisively say NO and reclaim your time and energy
- How to ask for exactly what you want, when you want it
- Saying NO with impact and grace
- Understanding your subconscious thought patterns and beliefs
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The Art of Everyday Assertiveness is a guide for the chronically “nice”, “overwhelmed”, and “accommodating”. It is a deep psychological dive into the beliefs that makes us lack assertiveness and describes how to systematically combat and replace compulsions with healthy mindsets. This is an audiobook that stands apart from others because of the plethora of real-life examples and solutions.
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A must read if you lack assertiveness
- By Henry Reimert on 03-27-19
By: Patrick King
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Emotional Intelligence
- The 21-Day Mental Makeover to Master Your Emotions, Improve Your Social Skills, and Achieve Better, Happier Relationships
- By: James W. Williams
- Narrated by: Skyler Morgan
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Would you like to be able to communicate effectively, and intuitively understand what's going on around you? Would you like to possess a tool which could help you get almost anything you want in life? Would you like to make yourself more employable by becoming more self-aware and a better team player in the constantly changing, and culturally diverse environment? Then this is an audiobook for you!
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I am so lucky to listen this.
- By Andrea Mercado on 04-04-19
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Not Nice
- Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, and Unapologetically Being Yourself
- By: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Narrated by: Dr. Aziz Gazipura PsyD
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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Are you too nice? If you find it hard to be assertive, directly ask for what you want, or say "no" to others, then you just might be suffering from too much niceness. In this controversial book, world-renowned confidence expert, Dr. Aziz Gazipura, takes an incisive look at the concept of nice. Through his typical style, Dr. Aziz uses engaging stories, humor, and disarming vulnerability to cut through the nice conditioning and liberate the most bold, expressive, authentic version of you.
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Changed my life forever
- By Shannon Slater on 12-07-18
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The Science of Likability
- 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology
- By: Patrick King
- Narrated by: Wes Super
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In The Science of Likability, you'll get all that and more. I've taken 27 seminal scientific and psychological studies and broken them down, so you can use their findings to your advantage. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research. You can get a new haircut and wardrobe, and you even learn funny jokes. But likability is something more. It's subconscious, and it's the small signs that signal our brains to let their guards down and embrace others.
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Eh
- By A. C. on 09-21-17
By: Patrick King
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You Can Negotiate Anything
- The Groundbreaking Original Guide to Negotiation
- By: Herb Cohen
- Narrated by: Brian Arens
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Master negotiator Herb Cohen has been successfully negotiating everything from insurance claims to hostage releases to his own son's hair length and hundreds of other matters for over five decades. Ever since coining the term win-win in 1963, he has been teaching people the world over how to get what they want in any situation. In clear, accessible steps, he reveals how anyone can use the three crucial variables of power, time, and information to always reach a win-win negotiation.
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52 Small Changes for the Mind
- Improve Memory - Minimize Stress - Increase Productivity - Boost Happiness
- By: Brett Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Brett Blumenthal
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Small changes work. In this practical book, wellness expert Brett Blumenthal reveals how to hone in on the mind as the foundation of overall health and well-being. She presents one small, achievable change every week - from developing music appreciation to eating brain-boosting foods, practicing mono-tasking, incorporating play, and more. The accumulation of these lifestyle changes ultimately leads to improved memory, less stress, increased productivity, and sustained happiness.
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Enjoyable, and useful
- By Amazon Customer on 01-14-24
By: Brett Blumenthal
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Money-Making Mom
- How Every Woman Can Earn More and Make a Difference
- By: Crystal Paine
- Narrated by: Michelle Lasley
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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When it comes to finances, many of us feel strapped and stressed, buried under bills, worried about an uncertain future. Even if money is plentiful, we long for greater wisdom to manage it well. In Money-Making Mom, finance and family blogger Crystal Paine shares real-life stories, practical tips, and hard-won wisdom from the failures and successes that have carved her family's path to financial freedom.
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A great book that uses spiritual weapons to fight earthly battles
- By Arisa Rice on 11-08-15
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Improve Your People Skills: Build and Manage Relationships, Communicate Effectively, Understand Others, and Become the Ultimate People Person
- By: Patrick King
- Narrated by: Gregory Sutton
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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If you (1) have trouble connecting with people beyond small talk or (2) are often left speechless and dumbfounded on how to handle certain people and situations, that feeling of dread isn't something you have to live with. Improve Your People Skills is your key to social intelligence and the better relationships to enrich your life that will inevitably follow.
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This book is kind of mean
- By yelhsa on 04-23-20
By: Patrick King
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The Art of Everyday Assertiveness: Become Strong Willed and Stop People Pleasing
- Master Your Communication and Social Skills
- By: Ian Tuhovsky
- Narrated by: Randy Streu
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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The Art of Everyday Assertiveness is not just another self-help guide that you’ll listen to and forget. The author will guide you through self-exploration to help you understand your current behavioral patterns and how they show up in your life. He’ll help you see how healthy assertiveness looks in real life, whether at work, in love, in family relations, and in other common situations. He’ll give you practical ways to start learning assertiveness in a way that doesn’t compromise your kindness and consideration for others.
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Learned to truly listen
- By Maria E. King on 04-24-23
By: Ian Tuhovsky
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The Decision Book
- Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition)
- By: Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschappeler, Jenny Piening
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Whether you're a chronic second-guesser or just eager for new ways to look at your world, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler will teach you how to improve your understanding of the dilemmas you face and how to make better decisions every day. Taught in MBA courses and elsewhere, The Decision Book contains classics like the Swiss cheese model for reviewing mistakes and the personal performance model for testing whether or not to switch jobs. This revised edition includes a model for identifying cognitive biases and the expectation model to help you choose a life partner.
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Buy the physical book
- By Preston on 09-21-18
By: Mikael Krogerus, and others
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Practical Emotional Intelligence: 6 Books in 1
- Anger Management, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Stoicism, Public Speaking, and Self-Discipline
- By: James W. Williams
- Narrated by: Lee Jagow. Sam Slydell, Skyler Morgan, Curtis Wright
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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Practical Emotional Intelligence is a collection of six books that are designed to help you with every aspect of emotional development, interpersonal relationships, becoming more charismatic and influential, improving your communication skills, and building confidence. The combination of the following six books will help you achieve success and happiness in life.
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Great books in 1 audio setting
- By Reginald M. on 01-12-21
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People Skills
- A Simple Guide to Reading People, Mastering Small Talk, and Getting People to Like You (Social Intelligence Training)
- By: Andy Gardner
- Narrated by: Alex Smith
- Length: 43 mins
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The truth is, we all have a deep need to feel understood and connected to others. And yet, most of us do not know how to create those connections. Some may have given up all hope, but it does not have to be this way!
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How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job
- By: Dale Carnegie
- Narrated by: Rick Turner
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Even if you love your job, you probably have days when almost nothing goes right. Collecting the most inspirational passages from his landmark mega-best sellers How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie's How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job will help you create a new approach to life and get the most out of yourself - all the time.
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just a repeat
- By vtl on 01-10-10
By: Dale Carnegie
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- Donald
- 07-07-20
Great Book
Very informative delivers strategies for overcoming passiveness and delivers great value. Listening for 2nd time!
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- Misha
- 10-12-21
great book
This book is great teaches you to be protect your self and value yourself. The example and techniques are really effective and helpful. Must read if your a big people pleasure it Time to break that habit
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- Anonymous User
- 08-31-23
Great read/listen!
This book was recommended to me and it really helped me understand not just my own, but other peoples ways of communication. Which allowed me to show up better for myself and others. I Highly recommend this book!
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- Norma Berry
- 05-03-22
Best book ever on learning assertiveness.
I have bought so many books on how to stand up for your rights and I was quite shocked that for the price of only $4 this book was the first one that is actually helping. I have both the kindle copy and the audio copy and love them both. I'm one of those people who start off by trying to help and then get stuck with that behavior with certain selfish people and family members who will take advantage of you. i get in a situations and not then not know how to get out. With the help of this book i am starting to crawl out. Hopefully in the future I will learn how not to get into those situations is to begin with.
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- AmazonAddict
- 08-29-24
Hmmm lacking a lil something
I suppose this book has a few good pointers but nothing surprisingly grabbed my attention like I expected. Not sure if it was due to the lack of any ground breaking advice or if it suffered due to the lack luster delivery by the narrator. Glad I used a credit and not actual $$ to buy this book. I will be requesting my credit back though!
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- Girard
- 03-13-18
what?
Would you try another book from Patrick King and/or Joe Hempel?
This is the worst advice anyone can give on assertiveness, it will do more harm in your interactions than good!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-23
Too specific
It gives you specific instructions, it talks to a determined group of people with certain characteristics. It may good for them but not really an "art". It isn't a good guide for "everyday" scenarios.
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- Claudio Samper
- 06-14-23
Sounded like a lecture
It was so monotone and repetitive with examples that don’t apply to everyone, at times it felt like a lecture I couldn’t even finish it was so bored of hearing examples
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- cheri
- 02-03-18
standard eighties self help baloney
the narrator was monotone and dry, no excitement or enthusiasm in his voice, but what was worse was the actual content. Patrick King is in no way an authority on this topic, his advice seemed like he took what sounded good from other books and presented them here without significant change or improvement. they sound good in theory, but they don't have much value in practice. don't waste your money or time.
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- TB
- 04-01-18
Too Macho
What disappointed you about The Art of Everyday Assertiveness: Speak Up. Say No. Set Boundaries. Take Back Control.?
From reading this book, Patrick King came off a bit chauvinistic...maybe his last name has gone to his head - King. As a woman, couldn't get into his book. I think it's geared more for men. I have to say, if a man did some of the things he suggests, I would slap him. If you are a woman, I recommend The Assertiveness Guide for Woman by Julie de Azevedo Hanks
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