You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

by Jen Sincero

it’s not your fault that you’re fucked up. It’s your fault if you stay fucked up,

when you’re vibrating at a high frequency, awesome things seem to flow to you effortlessly and you seem to stumble over the perfect people and opportunities all the time (and vice versa). As Albert Einstein observed, “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

The more time you spend in the moment, the richer your life will be.

When taking great leaps forward, life often turns to shit before it turns to Shinola.

You are the only you there is and ever will be. I repeat, you are the only you there is and ever will be. Do not deny the world its one and only chance to bask in your brilliance.

Holding on to my bad feelings about this is doing nothing but harming me, and everyone else, and preventing me from enjoying my life fully. I am an awesome person. I choose to enjoy my life. I choose to let this go.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU.

your mother being disappointed or your father disapproving or your friends being outraged does not qualify as screwing someone over.

What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

Having a good attitude and being grateful for all the things that are helping you live the life of your dreams will not only make your life a more pleasant place to be, and get you bigger tips, but it will also raise your frequency and attract the people and opportunities to you that will take you in the direction you want to go.

We only get to be in our bodies for a limited time, why not celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until it’s over?

Whatever happened, happened. Holding on will not change this fact, it will just keep the negative feelings from the past alive, keep you a prisoner to your pain and lower your frequency.

The longer you stay attached to being vindicated, the longer they hang around in your consciousness, stinking up your life.

I get to prove how pitiful men are by never being with a good one.

I feel like I know what I’m doing and in control by not letting anyone get close to me. I feel free. I feel safe.

The world is filled with awesome, loving men, and I am fully capable of, and so excited to find me a good one.

I am powerful and in control of my life. I choose to love and be loved.

I love and trust men and am so thrilled to be with an awesome guy who makes me giddy with happiness.

So often when we say we’re unqualified for something, what we’re really saying is that we’re too scared to try it, not that we can’t do it.

just start. Now. Do whatever it takes. You could get run over by the ice-cream truck tomorrow.

Stop talking about how busy you are. Focus on what you enjoy about what you do and the spaces in between the doing instead of feeling weighed down by it all. Decide that you live an awesome, relaxed life full of interesting projects that you love doing and communicate that to the world and yourself. And then go out and merrily do it.

Put your priorities first—don’t check e-mails or voice messages or Facebook until you’ve gotten into your day and accomplished some of the tasks you want to do. Don’t answer the phone or texts while you’re busy. Other people’s needs can occupy several lifetimes’ worth of our attention, and if you let them, they will.