You Are a Badass

There’s also an infinite amount of emotions and thoughts and beliefs and interpretations and sounds and dreams and opportunities ...

to ask them to dance. As the poet William Blake so eloquently stated: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything woul ...

Whenever I become impressed by a particularly creative array of new excuses I’ve come up with, or start to organize an elaborate ...

hold up against Ray instantly wilts into the sniveling little “nice try” that it is, and I’m forced to look upon my life, and my ...

on this planet is determined by how we choose to perceive our reality. I know. As if. It can’t be that easy. If it was that simp ...

—rough seas make better sailors—but you get to choose how long you want to stay in school and work on the same issues over and o ...

low-frequency thoughts and experiences, trust that the Universe loves the crap out of you, kick fear in the face, and head brave ...

friends, not the bullies who called you Fatzilla in junior high—and the sooner you decide to write yourself a better script, the ...

I always... I never... I can’t... I should... I suck at... I wish... I want (as opposed to I will and I am)... I don’t have... O ...

Sad-sack Jane, the lawyer, says she should keep her miserable job at the prestigious firm because she’ll never find one that she ...

guy your friend Deb just met the lone survivor of the good guy genocide? Broke-ass Joe, the personal trainer, always talks about ...

“Nobody understands me.” If you’re always overweight, maybe your story is, “I have no self-discipline.” If you’re uninvited from ...

do you hear yourself think and say over and over again that has become who you are (or rather who you think you are)? Bust yours ...

be it in a healthy way or an unhealthy way. If you’re perpetuating something dismal in your life because of some dopey story, th ...

drink beer for breakfast. Let’s say your story is that you can’t make money. By staying broke, you get to be right. You get to b ...

looking for the greener grass on the other side. You don’t have to risk getting hurt by being vulnerable. You get to complain ab ...

continue reaping “the rewards.” It’s how we survived as kids, but it doesn’t serve us anymore so we need to get rid of it or we’ ...

that totally makes you want to roll over and go back to sleep every morning instead of getting up and facing your day. Once you ...

etc., and write stream of consciousness in a journal (see example below), and really feel in your body what you’re getting from ...

them for trying to protect you and for keeping you company, but tell them it’s time to run along now. Then, replace the feelings ...