{"id":3487,"date":"2017-07-10T05:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2017-07-10T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:58:12","slug":"you-are-a-badass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/you-are-a-badass\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite quotes from the book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life<\/a>  by Jen Sincero which I rated 4\/5 on my Goodreads<\/a> account:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re serious about changing your life, you\u2019ll find a way. If you\u2019re not, you\u2019ll find an excuse.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are loved. Massively. Ferociously. Unconditionally. The Universe is totally freaking out about how awesome you are. It\u2019s got you wrapped in a warm gorilla hug of adoration. It wants to give you everything you desire. It wants you to be happy. It wants you to see what it sees in you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation. Then you wind up chasing after something you have no control over, and should that something suddenly place its focus somewhere else, or change its mind and decide you\u2019re no longer very interesting, you end up with a full-blown identity crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo often, we pretend we\u2019ve made a decision, when what we\u2019ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you\u2019ll wake up one day and realize you\u2019re living the kind of life you used to be jealous\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf 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.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI can pretty much guarantee that every time you tearfully ask yourself the question, \u201cWTF is my problem?!\u201d the answer lies in some lame, limiting, and false subconscious belief that you\u2019ve been dragging around without even realizing\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something called the Crab Effect. If you put a bunch of crabs in a bowl and if, while they\u2019re in there crawling all over each other, one of them tries to climb out, the rest of them will try to pull him back down instead of helping to push him out. No wonder they\u2019re called crabs.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause so often when we say we\u2019re unqualified for something, what we\u2019re really saying is that we\u2019re too scared to try it, not that we can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you tell yourself on a daily basis is more powerful than you know.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOur greatest fears are the greatest waste of time.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cComparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My favorite #quotes<\/a> from the #book<\/a> You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero https:\/\/t.co\/XUV6CZ0lWi<\/a><\/p>\n

— Nikola Bre\u017enjak (@HitmanHR) July 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n