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

by Jen Sincero

You are not alone, screwing up is not your special skill. Get over it. Dragging around guilt and self-criticism is beyond unhealthy and is utterly pointless, not to mention boring. You aren’t a better person for feeling guilty or bad about yourself, just a sadder one.

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.

Gently release any thoughts that come into your brain and refocus on your breathing. Keep your mind as clear and empty as possible and listen for intuitive hits that may or may not come through.

The moment you have the audacity to start believing in the not-yet seen, your reality will begin to shift.

I just wanna see if I can start my own successful business; I just wanna see if I can get myself out of debt and make one hundred thousand dollars more this year; I just wanna see if I can lose a hundred pounds; I just wanna see if I can sell one of my paintings for fifty grand; I just wanna see if I can meet my soul mate.

You cut yourself off from the supply of awesomeness when you are not in a state of gratitude.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie

What you choose to focus on becomes your reality.

Is your fear greater than your faith in the unknown (and yourself)? Or is your faith in the unknown (and yourself) greater than your fear?

On the other side of your fear is your freedom.

The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

At the end of the day, it’s not about them, it’s about you believing you’re worthy of being loved and seen for who you really are.

Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.