Hello! Thank you to everyone who read Be Yourself and the Rest Will Follow over the years. I hope it helped you to accept yourself, to love yourself, and, of course, to be yourself ... more! (And not just yourself, but your best self!) Please note, I primarily maintain the blog as a writing sample now and for anyone who wants to read past posts in order to further their personal growth journey. (As such, the form in the right sidebar that collects names + emails is no longer active...) Thanks again for reading and, … [Read more...]
Feeling Down? 3 Must Do’s When Life Gets too Turbulent…
Tell me, have you heard this one? A rabbi walks into a synagogue and says... "Life is filled with peaks and valleys. Enjoy the peaks, because you know there are going to be valleys." I bet you were thinking I was setting you up for a joke, but the truth is, what the rabbi said during that sermon I heard many years ago is quite serious. Life isn't good all of the time. We do encounter bumps in the road, times when either something bad happens to us or when, for whatever reason, we're just not feeling our best. You probably … [Read more...]
Redefining Winning: 10 Different Ways to Define Winning for When You Don’t Feel Like a Winner
I've got a question for you. And it's about something our society seems to focus on pretty heavily. In fact, it's about something one person, as of late, says we're going to be doing so much of soon, we're going to get tired of it. In case you haven't guessed what it is yet, it's... Winning. We think about winning from a young age, right? Winning at board games (which I never did against my brother in Monopoly). Winning at sports. Winning at school (by making great grades or, at that young age, by making it into the … [Read more...]