You Are a Badass Every Day: How to Keep Your Motivation Strong, Your Vibe High, and Your Quest for Transformation Unstoppable

by Jen Sincero

And the excellent thing about success is that it always comes down to one simple thing: the decision to keep going until you’ve reached your goal.

Success requires commitment, motivation, focus, a sense of purpose, and courage, and it requires that you continually strengthen these muscles so you meet each new challenge with a big ole can of get-the-fuck-outta-my-way.

Studying self-help books, unearthing your limiting thoughts and beliefs, and doing the work to get over your blocks—even if the work includes stuff like cooing “You amaze me” into the mirror each morning or singing a love song to your shadow self. (You must be willing to do whatever it takes, no matter how excruciating.) Meditating. Listening to powerful speakers. Journaling. Making gratitude lists that leave you sobbingly aware of what a miracle your life is. Reading biographies of people who inspire the crap out of you. Exercising. Listening to music that makes you feel like an invincible pillar of joy, strength, and don’t-mind-if-I-do. Saying affirmations over and over and over until they become your truth. Making a vision board and staring at it, all of the time. Ensmartening yourself. Breathing slowly, intentionally—deeply sucking in the good, fully breathing out the bad. Stretching. Writing down your manifesto and visualizing yourself in your new life to the point where you can feel it, taste it, own it, get all choked up and grateful for it.