Recent Reads: You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life.
Publisher:  Running Press Adult
Publication Date:  April 2013

 

Format: Paperback
Source: I own it.

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

The #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are A Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it. 

In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. If you're ready to make some serious changes around here, You Are a Badass will help you: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already, learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how to create it now. 

By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll 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 use The Force to kick some serious ass.

Review: 
Like many books, this one has been on my self for a bit, and before thew new year I wanted to get into it. I have restarted school and gotten a new job, and then picked up this book... and I can say that I am feeling much better about all these changes now even more than ever after reading this book.

This is a self-help book, obviously, and it has been out for a long time. I have been on this kick to find ways to better myself as well as read more outside of the Young Adult fantasy realm, and this one was there for me. There were some things in it that made me roll my eyes, and some that I think could really work for me, and I think that is what you get with most self-help books. 

I liked that this was self-help and a bio rolled into one, Jen told stories that helped lead the reader into these AHA! moments and I really enjoyed those. Everything is really simple, so simple that it seems silly to think that I needed to read a book to get it, but sometimes you need that kick to the face telling you to cut it out and this was a great book for that.

A story from my time reading this book: We have had a broken toilet for months and after beginning this book, I got up and told my husband we were going to get a new one and install it - done and done! New toilet, no more annoyances with the broken one and it only took able a half hour really to put it in.


Overall, I would say that if you are looking for self-help lite, this might be a good book for you, I think it will appeal more to younger audiences than those that I call 'real adults' (my mom and dad are real adults, I am still playing at one), but it was very eyeopening and I liked it.