Book Summary
You are a Bad*ss is a self-help book for those who are looking to improve their lives and be their best selves. In this book, Jen Sincero (world-traveling success coach) shares her own experiences, offers up real advice, and provides simple exercises to help you change your views.
The book consists of 27 chapters, broken up into five sections covering:
- How You Got This Way
- How to Embrace Your Inner Bad*ss
- How to Tap into the Motherlode
- How to Get Over Your B.S. Already
- How to Kick Some *ss
By the end of You Are a Bad*ss, you’ll learn the tools you need to embrace who you are and how you can cultivate your potential to kick some *ss.
My Thoughts
I’ve recently been reading a lot of self-help books about goal setting and moving past fear to create a more meaningful life for yourself. This book is a pretty quick read with less than 260 pages and a quippy author that carries you through to the end.
My favorite part of the book had to be the end of some of the chapters with a note saying, “Love Yourself.” Each chapter that had it was followed with an action or a phrase you needed to show yourself you love yourself. I found it was such a positive way to end those specific chapters.
Surprisingly, the chapter that resonated with me the most is chapter 24: Money, Your New Best Friend. Sincero directly challenges the notion of disliking needing money––something that I didn’t even realize I was doing. I mean, if you think about everything that we as a society consume, a general notion is that the rich are bad and the poor are good. Look at Robinhood.
I had to stop working with the equation that wanting/having money = greedy scumbag. And I had to get a freakin’ plan.
Sincero, Jen (2013). You are a Bad*ss. Running Press.
She is absolutely right. Wanting or having money does not mean that you are automatically a villain in a book or a movie.
I hadn’t even realized I had been limiting my own earning potential by writing off other avenues of income because of that fear of being labeled as selfish. I had limited myself to the belief that only my 9-5 job would provide me sufficient income and that any more earnings would be a detriment to my moral well-being.
After reading this book, I am more consciously working on growing my wealth and manifesting money in new and exciting ways.
In Conclusion
Overall, I give this self-help book an 8/10 rating. It was pretty repetitive at times but the overall message was clear: get over your fears and start living your life.
Elizabeth Yuen 