Quite Possibly My Favorite Self-Help Book Ever
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I just recently finished You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life by Jen Sincero and I was so impressed! I expected it to be great since it’s a #1 New York Times Bestseller and I’ve heard about it so many times. This book really helps you to get past your own BS and embrace who you really are.
Book Description
You are a Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don’t want to get busted doing it.
In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to:
Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want.
Create a life you totally love. And create it NOW
Make some damn money already. The kind you’ve never made before.
By the end of You Are a Badass, you’ll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can’t change, how to change what you don’t love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
My Thoughts
I love how incredibly blunt this woman is. It’s a no-nonsense guide to getting to know yourself better, finding a way to follow your dreams, and above all else, loving yourself. I think that fate has a way of bringing things into your life right when you need them the most. We have been having a hard time lately. There is a lot going on. I was feeling a little down on myself and was second-guessing our plans. This helped me to work through my frustrations and get really serious again about following our dreams.
There are so many gems of wisdom crammed in this little book. We are at that point in our journey where everything is falling apart as if The Universe is conspiring against us. Imagine how surprised I was to find this very thing being discussed in Chapter 4.
“The Big Snooze will do everything it can to stop you from changing and growing, especially since you’re attempting to obliterate the very identity that you and everyone else has come to know as “you.” Never underestimate the power of the Big Snooze scorned.”
This really resonated with me. We have definitely been dealing with major pushback while preparing for this life change.
“Growth ain’t for weenies, but it’s nowhere near as painful as living the life you’re living right now if you’re not really going for it. If you want to take control of your life and turn it into something as spectacularly “you” as have the people I described above, stop at nothing. Have faith. Trust that your new life is already here and is far better than the old. Hang tight if the Big Snooze pitches a fit. Whatever happens, stay the course, because there’s nothing cooler than watching your entire reality shift into one that is the perfect expression of you.”
Wow! Just Wow!
So many crazy, strange things have been piling up to make us stressed or unhappy lately. I never would have thought it was just a change in energy. Nobody talks about all the drama that happens right before they changed their lives and chose to follow their dreams. I felt so much better after reading this. You can feel really alone during this process because most people have no idea what you’re going through. Most people never do anything like this.
If you have ever massively changed your entire life, you understand the madness I’m talking about. We are simultaneously fixing up our house before we sell it (think major remodeling), massively decluttering all of our belongings down to the bare minimum including scanning thousands of pictures, trying to figure out what things we will need while RVing, trying to figure out what camper best suits our family, trying to spend as much time as possible with family/friends, and making a million little decisions all while continuing with our normal lives including working, homeschooling, blogging, laundry, grocery shopping, paying bills, and all the rest.
It’s the most daunting, overwhelming feeling. It’s like somebody dumped out our entire lives in the middle of the floor and just left it there. Instead of picking it up, we have to just step over it and the pile continues to grow bigger every single day.
If you only ever read one self-help book, make it You Are a Badass. It’s so inspirational and realistically helpful.
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