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

by Jen Sincero

We are spiritual beings having a physical experience, and the spiritual part of us is love, love that expresses itself through us but would really appreciate us getting the hell out of the way and into the flow so it can do its thing.

Our higher selves come blasting through when we go inward and listen to the hollerings of our own hearts instead of the expectations of others. When we forgive ourselves and others when we screw up. When we’re grateful. When we release guilt and shame. When we allow ourselves to shine, to be happy, to be taken care of. When we surrender. When we strengthen our ability to train our thoughts and focus on good-feeling things. When we cultivate compassion. When we allow ourselves to be, do, and have whatever feels fun and good and right. When we stop apologizing for who we are. When we chill the hell out and enjoy our lives.

You will never be perfect. You will never master the art of total, unflinching self-love. None of us will. But there is no worthier quest than rejoicing in the you that is you, because until we accept and love ourselves in all our magnificent...

I felt like I was going through the motions of living my lukewarm life with the occasional flare-ups of awesomeness here and there. And the most painful part was that deep down I KNEW I was a total rock star, that I had the power to give and receive and love with the best of ’em, that I could leap tall buildings in a single bound and could create anything I put my mind to

This is about getting mighty clear about what makes you happy and what makes you feel the most alive, and then creating it instead of pretending you can’t have it. Or that you don’t deserve it.

You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.

you don’t have to wait until you hit rock bottom to start crawling out of your hole. All you have to do is make the decision. And you can make it right now.

There’s a great line from the poet Anaïs Nin that reads: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

My journey was a process (and still is) that started with my decision to make some serious changes, regardless o...

If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.

You are a victim of the rules you live by. —Jenny Holzer;

Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else’s beliefs.

We as humans have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. Most of us are only aware of our conscious minds, however, because that’s where we process all our information. It’s where we figure things out, judge, obsess, analyze, criticize, worry that our ears are too big, decide once and for all to stop eating fried food, grasp that 2 + 2 = 4, try to remember where the hell we left the car keys, etc.

The conscious mind is like a relentless overachiever, incessantly spinning around from thought to thought, stopping only when we sleep, and then starting up again the second we open our eyes. Our conscious mind, otherwise known as our frontal lobe, doesn’t fully develop until sometime around puberty.

Our subconscious mind, on the other hand, is the non-analytical part of our brain that’s fully developed the moment we arrive here on earth. It’s all about feelings and instincts and erupting into ear-piercing temper tantrums in the middle of supermarkets. It’s also where we store all the early, outside information we get. The subconscious mind believes everything b...

1) Our subconscious mind contains the blueprint for our lives. It’s running the show based on the unfiltered information it gathered when we were kids, otherwise known as our “beliefs.” 2) We are, for the most part, completely oblivious to these subconscious beliefs that run our lives. 3) When our conscious minds finally develop and show up for work, no matter how big and smart and highfalutin they grow to be, they’re still being controlled by the beliefs we’re carrying around in our subconscious minds.

Our conscious mind thinks it’s in control, but it isn’t. Our subconscious mind doesn’t think about anything, but is in control.

No matter what you say you want, if you’ve got an underlying subconscious belief that it’s going to cause you pain or isn’t available to you, you either A) Won’t let yourself have it, or B) You will let yourself have it, but you’ll be rill fucked up about it. And then you’ll go off and lose it anyway.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. —Nikola Tesla;

All of us are connected to this limitless power and most of us aren’t using but a fraction of it.

Our energy is taking a joy ride in these bodies of ours; learning, growing, and evolving along the way (one would hope, anyway—I suppose, numbing, shrinking, and moving back in with our parents is also an option), until our corporal journey comes to an end and we move on… thanks for the lift!

HERE IS THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL THE WORK WE’RE ABOUT TO DO TOGETHER ON YOUR LIFE: • The Universe is made up of Source Energy. • All energy vibrates at a certain frequency. Which means you’re vibrating at a certain frequency, and everything you desire, and don’t desire, is also vibrating at a certain frequency. • Vibration attracts like vibration.

The Law of Attraction, the basic idea is: Focus on that which makes you feel good and ye shall find (attract) that which makes you feel good.

You need to raise your frequency to match the vibration of the one you want to tune into.

The Universe will match whatever vibration you put out. And you can’t fool The Universe.

Which is why 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 re...

When you learn to consciously master the energetic realm, believe in the not yet seen, and stay in your highest frequency, you harness your innat...

In order to truly raise your vibration, you’ve got to believe that everything you want is available to you. And the best way to keep this belief strong is by staying connected to Source Energy.

The trick is to have both parts—energy and action—working in unison: unless your energy is lined up properly with that which you desire, really desire, any action you take is going to require way more effort to get you where you want to go, if it gets you there at all.

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. —Lao Tzu;

This flip-flopping between freaking out in our heads and “breathing into the Now” is basically how most of us go through life.