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

by Jen Sincero

I want to write a book but can’t get myself to sit down and do it. Why not? I’m scared that if I do it will be terrible. What happens if it’s terrible? If it’s terrible I’ll look stupid. Then what? People will make fun of me. Then what? I’ll feel ashamed. Okay, so you’re not writing your book in order to protect yourself from feeling stupid and ashamed.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We’re all attracted to, as well as turned off by, various things about other people. And the things that stand out the most to us are the things that remind us the most of ourselves.

other people are like mirrors for us: If somebody bugs you, you’re projecting onto them something that you don’t like about yourself, and if you think they’re awesome, they’re reflecting back something that you see in yourself that you like (even if it’s not developed in you yet).

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

The things that bother us about other people bother us because they remind us of something that we don’t like about ourselves.

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

OWN YOUR UGLY

QUESTION YOUR UGLY

it’s also important to understand how to get the hell away from them if they’re chronically self-obsessed or violent or blaming or negative or controlling or jealous or high drama or manipulative or victimized or whiney or pessimistic or mean to animals.

See it as being nice to yourself instead of being mean to them.

When it comes to the creatures you love and the things you love and the life you love, what on earth could possibly be more important than soaking them up right now while you still have the opportunity?

If it’s something you want to do, don’t wait until you’re less busy or richer or “ready” or twenty pounds lighter. Start right now. You’ll never be this young again.

So often, we pretend we’ve made a decision, when what we’ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.

If you made the decision that you were going to reach your goals, you would do whatever it took. If you merely wanted to, but hadn’t made the firm decision to, you’d roll over and begin convincing yourself that your life is fine just the way it is.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

There’s no big mystery to this stuff: If you want something badly enough and decide that you will get it, you will.

Decide to become the person who makes quick, smart decisions and you will.

When we say, “I am manifesting five grand to go on a trip to Italy you just watch me,” our faith in the yet unseen is strong and our frequency is high.

I don’t see the money, but I believe it’s there and it will be mine dammit!

Nothing has any value other than the value we put on it.

If you want a lifestyle where you eat out more and wear nicer clothes, crunch the numbers. How much money do you now need to make per year? Per month? Per hour? The Universe responds to details.

If you’re broke as a joke, it’s not about working until you’re half dead to make ends meet and whining about your pathetic situation. It’s about showing up everyday with an excellent attitude, doing your best, leaning back, celebrating what is and steadily working with the grateful expectation and belief that The Universe is sending you a new, more lucrative opportunity.

Whatever you have to do, start developing successful habits if you want to become a successful person.

If you hang out with people who constantly whine about how tired, broke and worried about the economy they are, you’ll feel like a hero just for getting out of bed in the morning.

Your mind will follow where your body leads.