My Daily Rules to Live By, Second Edition: How to Become a Better Person

Introducing the second edition of My Daily Rules to Live By. Please note that the first edition is now out of date.

Everyone experiences times when they are provoked to behave badly, and afterward they may regret those hurtful behaviors. My Daily Rules to Live By offers a set of suggested rules that can enable one to take charge of these damaging behaviors.

By simply telling oneself to “Stop!” any potentially damaging behavior, such as one brought on by anger, a person can shift from these destructive expressions of their instinctive self to the compassionate, creative, Higher-level actions of their conscious self.

My Daily Rules to Live By was written over a period of more than 25 years. Dr. Sol Weingarten, a noted psychiatrist, has worked with thousands of patients, hundreds of couples, and several thousand California State prison inmates who successfully transformed into kinder, more thoughtful, and happier people by incorporating The Rules into their daily lives. This book describes how The Rules came into being and how they can help you to become a better human being. Practicing My Daily Rules can provide you with the ability to evolve in reaching your potential to relate to others, as well as improving your self-expression.

This second edition includes a chapter on forgiveness, something we felt, in hindsight, was missing from the first edition. The ability to forgive oneself and others for our damaging behaviors is yet another powerful tool for helping to create a better future.

At the age of 18, Sol Weingarten was drafted into the Army during World War II where he fought in Ger-many and became a prisoner of war. During that time, he witnessed some of the most horrible behaviors humanity was capable of while gaining insights into improving human nature. That experience moved him to devote his life’s work to helping people stop themselves from being cruel and destructive to one another. He decided to become a physician and then spe-cialized in psychiatry using both one-on-one and group therapy. For the next fifty years he worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and families in Northern California as well as several thousand in-mates in the California State prison system. He is a long-time member of the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association. In 2011 he published an article entitled “Nature’s Best-Kept Secret” that first described the technique he presents more fully in this book. More information can be found on his website, www.solweingarten.com, and there are plans for a second book that will offer more help and understanding about the conscious aspects of human behavior. Dr. Weingarten is retired from practice and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.