Are you your own best cheerleader? There are some mornings when I really dread getting up, getting dressed, getting out of the house. Then I have to give myself a rah-rah-rah just to keep going.
One of the most important ways to make this next chapter count is learning how to cheer ourselves on when times are tough.
I read that every really successful performer — athlete, writer, musician, singer — knows that there will be off-times. Like that song, “Momma said there’d be days like this.” Some days are just harder to handle than others. For me, the key is to pretend there are cheerleaders on the side of the field cheering me on. I remind myself that I might be tackled by bad luck or bad health or a bad performance, but I have to keep going to reach my goal.
What do you say to yourself in those tougher moments? Are you your own best chee
rleader?
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About dianabletter
Diana Bletter is the author of several books including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker), shortlisted for a National Jewish Book Award, a novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins), a memoir, The Mom Who Took of on her Motorcycle, and The Loving Yourself Book for Women: A Practical Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Heal Your Inner Child, and Celebrate the Woman You Are, an Amazon top-seller in several categories, and The Loving Yourself Workbook for Girls.
She is the First Prize Winner of Moment Magazine's 2019 Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review and is currently a reporter for The Times of Israel.
Diana and her husband have six children and an unofficially-adopted daughter from Ethiopia. They live in a small village on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel.
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