You Are a Badass

have the things we want, and designing the perfect distractions to keep us from our dreams—imagine how far we’d get if we just s ...

Passion trumps fear. In hindsight, I realized that I was more qualified for that job than I thought. I’m a big sister, which m ...

spent sitting around “getting ready,” and doing nothing, instead. Whether it’s an online dating profile you’re not ready to post ...

surgery on the floor, and then proceeded to write the entire thing at my kitchen table. Procrastination is one of the most popul ...

moment, eventually the naughtiness buzz wears off and you’re sitting there a few years later, feeling like a loser, wondering wh ...

an excuse. In the interest of getting you where you want to go in this lifetime, here are some tried-and-true tips to help you s ...

not totally ready yet. Nobody else cares or will probably even notice that everything isn’t 100 percent perfect— and, quite hone ...

you’re working on, or whatever you’re pretending to work on, where exactly do you stop? Is it when you have to do the research? ...

that every time you sit down to make calls to try and book yourself a speaking gig, you mysteriously find yourself pulled into F ...

A good way to make yourself accountable is to make a bet with someone who will hold you to it. They must have no mercy—they can’ ...

date. Make it a payable amount that you really don’t want to pay, but that’s barely within your reach. Then write the check out ...

WITH IT If you’re the kind of person who blows everything off until the last minute, and you know this about yourself, why waste ...

5. LOVE YOURSELF Right now, wherever you’re at. ...

CHAPTER 19: THE DRAMA OF OVERWHELM I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened. —Mark Twain; Am ...

find it very helpful to start with a separate index card for each chapter. I put the chapter title at the top of each card, writ ...

wine someone help me I am sinking... I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Just. Do. One. Chapter. At. A. Time. So I pulled a ...

Life is but a dream. Don’t turn it into a nightmare. We are so unbelievably blessed to have all the things we have, all the oppo ...

more pleasant perspective on your massive to-do list, let’s take the three most common complaints about overwhelm and pretty the ...

parking spot so I’ll park in this loading zone. Oh, look at that, I just spent three hours I don’t have getting my car out of th ...

When we’re forced to do something, suddenly the time is there. Which means it’s there all the time, but we’ve just chosen to lim ...