Break Through "Personal B.S."
With My Time-Tested Personal B.S.-Busting Self-Help Tactics
by Bart Smith
Break Through Personal B.S. is Bart Smith’s bold, funny, practical guide to spotting and cutting through the personal B.S. that slows you down, messes with your mind, hurts your heart, weakens your habits, and keeps you from living stronger. Inside, Bart tackles the big four areas of life — Body, Mind, Faith, and Heart — with common-sense observations, blunt truth, humor, and time-tested self-help tactics. This is not your average soft little self-help book; it’s a wake-up call, life audit, confidence builder, and B.S.-busting guide for anyone ready to stop tolerating excuses and start making better choices.
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BOOK CONTENTS & DESCRIPTION
There’s no B.S. about this book. Break Through Personal B.S. is packed with 1,000+ B.S.-busting tips, tactics, questions, prompts, Bartisms, reminders, wake-up calls, and common-sense self-help moves designed to help you think better, choose better, protect your peace, build stronger habits, and stop letting personal B.S. run your life. Inside, I go after the B.S. that shows up in your body, mind, faith, heart, habits, attitude, excuses, relationships, choices, and future — all with my Bart-style observations, BARTISMS, BART BUILDERS, and BARTMAN PHILOSOPHIES for living life on high and with less B.S. dragging you down. I love this book, live by these ideas, and believe the principles inside are strong, grounded, tested, and ready to help you spot, stop, dodge, reduce, reject, and break through the personal B.S. that keeps trying to creep into your life. Read it, highlight it, use it, and tell me you won’t be a whole lot more B.S.-free after putting these tactics to work.
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BOOK CONTENTS
Instead of listing every single chapter, section, tactic, checklist, Bartism, and B.S.-busting reminder inside the book, here’s a quick look at the four major life areas I tackle throughout Break Through Personal B.S. The video tour on this page will show you even more of what’s inside, but these four sections give you the big picture of how this book helps you work on your body, mind, faith, and heart.
PART 1 → BODY
Take Better Care Of Yourself
In Part 1, I go after the Body B.S. people ignore until their body starts raising its voice. This section is packed with common-sense health awareness, body maintenance reminders, 25 body checkpoints, checkups men and women should stop avoiding, aging-better advice, self-care ideas, family history awareness, second-opinion thinking, personal care specialists, and practical reminders to pay attention before small problems become bigger ones. I ain’t no doctor, but I do believe in becoming an Observant Body Owner — someone who watches, listens, notices, asks questions, gets checked, and takes better care of the one body they have to live in every single day.
PART 2 → MIND
Bartize Your Brain & Your Attitude
In Part 2, I tackle the mental and emotional B.S. that shows up through excuses, fear, procrastination, anger, depression, worry, jealousy, comparison, weak confidence, negative thinking, stress, complaining, overthinking, bad attitudes, and letting life push you around. Don’t go through life feeling down, bitter, defeated, doubtful, stuck, mentally whipped, or emotionally worn out by the daily barrage of B.S. thrown at you. It doesn’t have to be that way. Your mind and attitude are capable of so much more when you start paying attention to what you think, what you believe, what you tolerate, and what you keep telling yourself. This section is loaded with Bartisms, Bart Builders, mindset punches, confidence builders, attitude adjustments, motivational reminders, emotional-control lessons, and practical ways to think stronger, act faster, worry less, bounce back faster, stand taller, and stop letting weak thoughts run the show. Let’s Bartize your brain and attitude so you can start thinking stronger, living clearer, and breaking through the mental B.S. that keeps trying to run your life.
PART 3 → MIND
Bartize Your Faith & Life Purpose
Part 3 deals with the deeper side of life — faith, purpose, wisdom, gratitude, humility, quiet time, grief, love, strength, abundance, time, and the bigger questions people often avoid until life gets heavy. This section is not about forcing religion on anyone; it’s about helping you think about what you believe, why you are here, what guides you, what strengthens you, and how faith, spiritual wisdom, and life purpose can help you stand stronger when B.S., pain, confusion, loss, temptation, or uncertainty show up. Sometimes breaking through personal B.S. requires more than motivation — it requires grounding.
PART 4 → HEART
Bartize Your Relationships
& Safeguard Your Heart
Your heart matters, and Part 4 is all about protecting it without hardening it. This section goes after relationship B.S., family drama, toxic people, weak boundaries, loneliness, rejection, forgiveness, people-pleasing, communication problems, silent treatments, emotional punishment, conflict, enemies, and giving your heart to people who keep dropping it. I talk about loving with boundaries, speaking better, fighting cleaner, protecting your peace, choosing better people, saying no when necessary, and making sure you don’t become someone else’s B.S. while trying to escape your own. Protect your heart, but keep it open for business.
Bonus Section
How To Use A.I. To Help You Break Through Personal B.S.
Summary & Words Of Encouragement
About The Author: Bart Smith Bart’s Other Books
BOOK EXCERPTS
To pique your curiosity about this book, check out these hand-picked excerpts that come right out of the book. If you like what you read, then you'll definitely love the book or perhaps the audiobook version.
🕮 Top 7 Ways To Overcome B.S. In Your Life
🕮 I’m Not Paid To Be Your Therapist!
🕮 Grace Under Pressure (“Never Let Them See You ...)
🕮 Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should!
🕮 Perspective (See Life Through Someone Else’s Eyes ...)
🕮 Trust No One – Suspect Everyone
🕮 A.D.D. (Avoid, Dodge & Delay)
🕮 My 1/3 Rule For Life/Living/Surviving It!
... and many more!
Then, come back to this very web page to purchase the paperback, eBook or listen to the audiobook version for free on Bart's YouTube channel!
AUDIO EXCERPTS
I also recording a lot of the book in audio format so you can listen to it as you work, wait, play, drive, ride, etc. Check out this audio sample below. If you like what you hear, you can listen to the entire audiobook for FREE on my YouTube Channel. Just subscribe (for FREE) and start listening!
RAVE REVIEWS
“I love Break Through "Personal B.S." When I’m feeling down about something, I can open it up in PART II: Self-Help From B.S. and find something to pick me up. I think Bart’s attitude and philosophy on life is inspiring in and of itself. Then, he has to go and write about it in this amazing book. I love PART III: Relationship B.S. where he talks about how to deal with friends/family members who give you B.S. and what you should do about them. Love it! He’s spot on, too. He helped me put in perspective how my mother was treating me over the holidays when I’d go visit with her. Thanks, Bart. You helped me see things differently, which gave me the ability to go and have a good time and not let her words harm my heart.” — Jill S., San Pedro, CA
“Life isn’t easy. In fact, don’t we all wish it came with an owner’s manual? At least when it comes to how we should treat ourselves, treat others and defend ourselves against those who wish to commit acts of B.S. on us? Well, you’ll never be without words to say (when the moment (B.S.) comes) having read Bart’s book. I’ve actually spent time with Bart and when I told him of a few situations going on in my life where people were giving me a hard time or whatever, he’d cite something right out of Break Through "Personal B.S." that made them … GO AWAY! and nicely too! He’s so creative in how he responds to situations and it’s all in his book.” — Peggy H., Newport Beach, CA
AUTHOR MESSAGE
Break Through "Personal B.S." was written to help you take a serious, honest, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable look at the personal B.S. that shows up in your body, mind, faith, heart, habits, choices, excuses, relationships, attitude, and everyday life.
I wrote this book because I’ve seen B.S. everywhere — in my own life, in the lives of friends, family, clients, customers, business owners, authors, coaches, speakers, and everyday people who are trying to do better but keep getting slowed down by the same old patterns. Some people ignore their health. Some let fear run their mind. Some drift away from faith, purpose, peace, and wisdom. Some keep handing their heart to people who don’t treat it right. And some people know exactly what they need to change, but keep putting it off like life is going to wait forever.
Well, life does not wait forever.
This book goes after four major areas where personal B.S. loves to hide: BODY, MIND, FAITH, and HEART. I talk about taking better care of yourself, thinking stronger, building more confidence, protecting your peace, strengthening your faith, improving your attitude, setting better boundaries, handling toxic people, and making better choices before your own B.S. keeps costing you time, energy, health, happiness, relationships, and opportunity.
Inside, you’ll find my Bartisms, Bart Builders, B.S.-busting reminders, personal observations, questions, prompts, wake-up calls, and practical self-help tactics designed to help you stop tolerating what you already know needs to change. This is not soft, fluffy, fake-guru motivation. This is common-sense, Bart-style, tell-it-like-it-is self-help for people who are ready to look in the mirror, tell themselves the truth, and start breaking through the personal B.S. that keeps trying to run the show.
So read it with a highlighter. Laugh where it hits. Squirm where it stings. Circle what applies. Use the questions. Work the tactics. Watch the video tour. Then start making better moves in your body, mind, faith, heart, habits, relationships, and life.
Because personal B.S. does not have to keep winning.
Let’s break through it.
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