Book review for You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

This book starts out on how we ended up doubting our greatness. It goes into how we need to embrace God or our Source Energy or Loving Spirit or whatever we address it as and be present. It’s similar to The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is that it tells about how the universe is made up of energy, all energy vibrates and a certain frequency, and how vibration attracts like vibration. So we need to raise our frequency to match the vibration we want to tune into.

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, ancient Chinese philosopher

So what are some of the best ways to win ourselves over again?

• Appreciate how special we are
• Drown ourselves in affirmations
• Do things we love
• Find replacement thought patterns
• Ditch the self-deprecating humor
• Let the love and positive comments in gracefully
• Don’t compare ourselves to others
• Forgive ourselves by not dragging around guilt and self-criticsm
• Love ourselves because it’s the holy grail of happiness

Likewise how can we truly not care about what others think and be our most powerful Self?

• Ask ourselves why we are about to do or say something (motivations)
• Always do our best so we don’t feel insecure (half-assed)
• Trust our intuition (our inner guidance tool)
• Find a temporary role model or mentor (What would my hero do?)
• Love ourselves (forget about outside nonconstructive opinions)
• Getting clear about our unique purpose

The book goes on to stress the importance of meditation and how to do it. Our thoughts are the most powerful tools we got. So, we need to change our thinking first and then the evidence will appear. Tell our brain who is driving the bus. And it’s important to give, let give, show gratitude, and have faith. Faith is having the audacity to believe in the not-yet seen and our best buddy when scared. Next the book goes into choosing our freedom by allowing ourselves to forgive. “Holding on to resentment is like taking poison and waiting for your enemies to die.” Then the author highlights procrastination and perfectionism as being two of the most popular forms of sabotage. That’s because if we’re serious about changing our way then we’ll find a way to do it. If not, we’ll find an excuse. Done is better than perfect. Don’t make being in fear a habit.

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

Jen Sincero, author of You Are a Badass

Our reality is a mirror of our thoughts, the people in our reality included. Choose people that help us be our better selves and that encourage us to try. Nobody ever gets to the top of the mountain without first falling, the author writes. The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information. We need to learn that it is our beliefs that hold the key to our success.

Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you, rather than against you.

Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now

All in all, this book is about our faith in the Universe needing to be stronger than the fear of not getting what we want. To read it in its entirety, get the book here.

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