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.

Success is a way of being and adapting and growing that gets easier the more you practice.

if you’re alive, you’re creating. You’re creating thoughts, friendships, new cells, hairdos, joys, problems, solutions, sentences, routes to work, truths to live by,

you are creating your reality.

If you run from your fears, they will follow you. If you run straight at your fears, they will get the hell out of your way. Fears hate it when you do that.

An excuse is simply a challenge that you’ve decided has power over you.

This moment is a vital part of a whole life that I’m creating. What I choose to do in this moment defines who I am and how I show up in the world. I’m dedicated to creating an extremely awesome life for myself, so I’m taking this moment seriously, getting the hell on it, and staying in excited expectation of the stupendousness hurtling toward me.”

The trick to resisting these temptations and staying the course to success is to focus on the fact that not only are our negative impulses wimpy and fleeting, but so is the immediate gratification they so seductively dangle before us.

it’s not as important to know exactly what you want to do with your life as it is to know what makes you feel good.

When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that your reactions are not the truth about the person or situation, they are just your feelings about them. All you have to do is change your perception and you are free.