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You Are a Badass

How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
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You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero is a self-help guide that aims to inspire you to identify and change self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours. Through humorous stories and practical advice, the book encourages you to create a life you love and to believe in your own potential.
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This book may appeal to you if you want to gain confidence, embrace your inner strength, and break through self-imposed limitations to achieve your goals. Jen Sincero's witty and practical advice can inspire you to create a life you love.

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Practical, funny, implementable advice and stories that will help you understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to be a badass all the time.

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You Are a Badass is a self-help phenomenon that has captivated readers worldwide. Brought to life by bestselling author and world-travelling success coach, Jen Sincero, this book is an entertaining how-to guide that encourages you to transform your life without all the heavy-handed, preachy undertones typically found in self-help literature.

In this refreshingly witty and empowering manual, Jen Sincero lays out 27 engaging chapters filled with inspiring stories, practical advice, simple exercises, and a sprinkle of humour and colourful language. Each chapter is designed to help you tear down the barriers that have been holding you back and catapult you into a life that you absolutely love.

The core messages of You Are a Badass revolve around self-improvement and self-realisation. Throughout the book, you are encouraged to:

Identify and change self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours: Learn to recognise and alter the destructive patterns that hinder your progress and prevent you from achieving your goals.

Create a life you love, starting now: Begin crafting the life of your dreams immediately by taking proactive and meaningful steps towards your desires.

Generate wealth and financial success: Develop a healthier relationship with money and discover innovative ways to attract and sustain financial abundance like never before.

By the conclusion of You Are a Badass, you will possess a deeper understanding of why you behave the way you do, how to embrace and love the aspects of yourself that you cannot change, and strategies for transforming the areas of your life that you find less appealing. Jen Sincero's unique perspective and dynamic approach will empower you to harness your inner strength and utilise "The Force" to make transformative changes and achieve unprecedented success.

If you are someone who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life but wishes to avoid the conventional, overly-serious self-help approach, You Are a Badass offers the perfect blend of motivation, levity, and practical wisdom to help you become your most badass self.

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You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero is highly praised for its straightforward and engaging writing style. Readers appreciate the practical advice, motivational anecdotes, and humour that Sincero incorporates. Many find it an empowering and inspiring read that encourages self-reflection and personal growth.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473649521

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray One

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 184g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Jen Sincero is a bestselling author and success coach who has helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her newsletters, seminars, private sessions, public appearances, articles, products, and books. A few years ago, Jen said goodbye to her home in California in order to travel the world indefinitely and encourage as many people as possible to live lives of unbridled awesomeness. She is the author of YOU ARE A BADASS and YOU ARE A BADASS AT MAKING MONEY.

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