Be Yourself : Living the Life You Were Meant to Live by Understanding Your Natural Abilities

Be Yourself is a guide to discovering who you are and a primer for managing your innate abilities. Its goal is to help you live the life you were meant to live by understanding your natural abilities and by utilizing your gifts to fullest advantage. It will help you address the important areas and issues in your life, both personally and professionally.

In a conversational, engaging manner, this innovative book introduces readers to an unique process of personal profiling and ability management. It initiates awareness of the different abilities and attributes we each own individually, details and discusses our dominant abilities and their combinative forms, and recommends ways to use and manage them to improve ourselves. Through 26 comfortably constructed chapters, Be Yourself deals with the positive and negative aspects of self-awareness, relationship dynamics, and personal motivation. The book points up revealing insights concerning work styles, individual perspective of time, and what makes us tick. It relates to the reader by examples and anecdotes in an easy-reading manner with positive direction, humanity and humor.

This book brings fresh insights to the literature of self-improvement. In practical terms, it puts forth a powerful message: be your true self; discover and manage your abilities; optimize yourself and your life.

Be Yourself is a new and effective approach to personal development.

John Buffini is the foremost educator in Ability Management and the leading innovator in the related field of Personal Profiling. He has developed personal profiles on thousands of individuals, ranging from teenagers to the octagenarians, homemakers to corporation presidents. He is the founder of Heritage Profiles and Ability Management, Inc., both headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

The hallmark of his work is helping people better their lives by recognizing their true nature and maximizing their innate abilities. The graciousness of his methods in bringing people to reality about themselves and their behavior distinguishes John Buffini from others in this field.

Mr. Buffini is the author of Be Yourself, a popular self-help book that empowers people to become the best version of themselves that they can be.

In an entertaining and intriguing manner, John has delivered his message via personal appearances and seminars to an audience of more than 100,000 across the country. He has also been a central figure in numerous call-in programs dealing with a variety of topics from communicating with your partner to leveraging your natural selling style. Within these programs, his profiling of couples and business partners is especially provocative and interesting in regard to the natural frustrations and championing that can occur in relationships.

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, John immigrated to America with scant resources, no job, no place to live, and only one acquaintance in the U.S. He established himself in Southern California, and his four brothers came from Ireland to join him. Utilizing their natural abilities and drive in a practical, down-to-earth way, they have built the largest, most dynamic and innovative coaching company in the United States. All five brothers are actively involved, conducting seminars nationwide, culminating in an annual national convention attended by thousands.

John's interests include playwriting and regional theatre. For the past ten years, he has been a member of a writing group instrumental in producing seven plays.

He is also an intense advocate of physical training and healthful diet; has overcome a weight problem by a strict training regimen; and has recently competed in his first marathon.

John resides in Southern California with his wife Joan, who is an integral partner in his endeavors.