You Are a Badass

to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Nobody gets to the top of the mountain without falling on his face over and over again. ...

plenty of proof that he was capable of failing on a massive scale, but his faith in himself and his vision was so strong that he ...

Thomas Edison, who was dubbed too stupid to learn anything by a teacher, tried more than nine thousand experiments before succe ...

Fred Smith wrote a paper while at Yale about his big idea for an overnight delivery service. He got a C. He went on to create F ...

You’ve done it before—you’ve lost the weight, gotten the job, bought the house, quit the nasty habit, gotten in shape, asked som ...

fuck on the fuck. Here’s how you can, too: 1. WANT IT BAD You need to have a ten-ton gorilla of desire behind your decision or e ...

feel like doing it. I paid my money, sat on my mat, and was surprised to find my hand raised in the air when the instructor aske ...

If you’re going to push through major obstacles to reach your goal, you can’t just want to want to; you need to be in a full-on ...

freaked out by it! The terror around making the wrong decision can be so overwhelming to some people that they develop the habit ...

basically decide to never decide because they don’t want to make the wrong decision. Good times! Deciding is freedom. Indecision ...

you must know exactly what to do the moment a decision presents itself (although there are those people who do), but rather that ...

your order. Give yourself twenty minutes to go online and research the best garlic press and then make the purchase. Pick things ...

figure it out by then. If you’re wired for making instant decisions, practice tuning into your intuition and fully trusting what ...

3. ELIMINATE THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS When I decided to quit smoking, if I even toyed with thoughts like “Well, what harm will on ...

The old you, the one who has not yet decided to kick ass, is in the past. Stay present and do not, even for a second, look backw ...

snort some horse tranquilizers. I don’t negotiate about snorting horse tranquilizers because I’m not a horse- tranquilizer snort ...

obstacles and excuses and fears and doubts until they’re finally like, “You? Again? Jesus H. Christ, fine, here you go, now get ...

hormonal killing spree, but you stay the course because you know this baby of yours is going to be the bomb. Then, finally, just ...

yourself, must be greater than your fear. However easy or rough your birth process is, you have to be willing to fall down, get ...

CHAPTER 24: MONEY, YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND I worked for a menial’s hire Only to learn, dismayed That any wage I asked of Life Life ...