Words matter. These are the best Jen Sincero Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Overwhelm is, most often, a mindset. If you think about all the things you have to do, you’ll be face down on the floor. It really helps to break it down into smaller pieces.
So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as ‘straight’ as straight.
I’m in trouble with some activist women because I refuse to say I’m bisexual.
I’ve been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I’ll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.
When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don’t progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.
We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.
You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you’re going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you’re on the right track.
Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.
For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it’s difficult to be successful without that because that’s where you have to come from if you’re really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it’s more a sort of a universal energy.
Take lots of walks. It’s the best way to discover your world, both inner and outer.
I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.
A sense of urgency is motivating.
Wanting money has been made so taboo. We’re not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.
I find that in my own life and with the people I’ve been coaching, when people make the decision to get rich, they’re available to do things that are outside of their comfort zones and stretch themselves.
People love to tell you what you should and shouldn’t want, regardless of what you have to say about it.
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there’s no possibility, you’ll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.
So many people subconsciously shy away from getting rich because they believe they’ll be judged, they’ll lose the people they love, they believe that desiring money is a bad thing, money is the root of all evil, etc.
Sexuality has become much more fluid, and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment.
If your entire relationship with money is devoid of fun, money becomes something you fear and loathe rather than something to celebrate and enjoy.
It actually is a lot easier to get rich than one would think.
Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.
If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn’t a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I’m a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it’s the hobby you do to relax and unplug.
We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.
For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
Pick the one thing that you’ve really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.
Talk to strangers. They’re never who you think they are at first.
The good news is that you have everything you need to lift yourself off the couch to start kicking butt. You just have to decide that you’re going to do it, not that you’re too lazy to.
When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn’t pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn’t pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, ‘The Straight Girl’s Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.’
We don’t even realize how loaded of a topic money is. We’ve got really serious judgments on it.
My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.
Our ‘realities’ are make-believe – whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.
Technology gets a bad rap for keeping us glued to our screens instead of being present with whomever is around us, and while this can be true, it also allows us to connect with billions of people all over the world. For free.
The good news about being full of crap is that once you’re willing to admit that you’re full of crap, you can de-crap yourself.
Even though most of us love, love, love it when we’re flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we’d do with more of it, we’d feel gross saying ‘I love money’ out loud.
We love to commiserate and troubleshoot and prepare for the worst, and gratitude yanks us out of that and reminds us of the ridiculous amount of infinite blessings that are around us at all times.
I have more experience than I care to have on what it feels like to be broke, confused, and frustrated when it comes to money.
If you want to change your life, you have to do things you’ve never done before.
You must go after the things you desire like your life depends on it, because guess what? Your life does depend on it. The life you truly want to live does.
I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn’t much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I’d never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a ‘dude.’
If you want to be a powerful woman, you need money. It gives you options and freedom so you don’t have to think about money all the time.
Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.
Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, ‘Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.’ But what you’re really doing is not doing your work. You’re putting off showing up and being visible because then you’re going to be judged, and it might suck.
I’ve read, like, 10,000 self-help books.
Bravely going out into the world and trying, yet still deep down believing you’re ruled by your past circumstances, is like forgiving someone but still hoping they sit in something wet.
If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.
Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realise you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.
If you’re confident, then you don’t feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they’re afraid of admitting their weaknesses.
Being cool was always very important to me, but I decided to get rich, so I went for it.
Basically, I chose not to identify with being broke any longer. I realized I deserved a beautiful life, and abundance was something that I needed to welcome into my life.
Sometimes, if the people in your life really drag you down, you need to stop spending time with them.
