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 (As such, the form in the right sidebar that collects names + emails is no longer active...)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…
By | May 30, 2016 | 2 Comments
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
By | February 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment
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...]
When Showing People You Care, Do More of THIS…
By | December 7, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Did you ever watch the television show, The Facts of Life? I used to love that show growing up and, boy, did I get a dose of nostalgia when I happened to catch a re-run of it on TV Land recently. In case you don't remember or recognize the show, it revolved around the trials and tribulations of four adolescent girls (Blair, Jo, Natalie and Tootie) who attended a prestigious boarding school and were under the care of housemother, Ms. Garrett. On the episode I caught, it was Ms. Garrett's birthday, and wanting to give her as grandiose a … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving, Be Yourself Community!
By | November 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Greetings! If pictures are truly worth a thousand words, I hope this one is worth a million. Because it would take at least a million 'Thank you's' to let you know how much we appreciate your reading the Be Yourself blog... And to thank you for being a member of the Be Yourself community. Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with family and friends. And that you always remember... Be yourself and the rest will follow! To you, … [Read more...]
5 Terrible, Horrible, Negative, No Good Things You Should Go Through In Your Life
By | October 18, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Do you watch Meet the Press on Sunday mornings? If you do, you probably remember that it used to be hosted by David Gregory. You probably also remember that he got fired...(well, he says he didn't get fired, but I have a feeling he kind of got fired...or was going to and decided to leave first.) Whichever the case, according to an interview he gave recently on Book TV, he said this time in his life was incredibly difficult... That his getting fired from/leaving NBC was his first-ever career setback – which, at age 45, is a bit late, … [Read more...]
