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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth Kindle Edition
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass®, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you’ve only ever dreamed of—an excellent holiday gift
You Are a Badass at Making Money will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation—over just a few years—from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style, Jen Sincero channels the inimitable sass and practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller. She combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock earning potential and get real results.
Learn to:
• Uncover what's holding you back from making money
• Give your doubts, fears, and excuses the heave-ho
• Relate to money in a new (and lucrative) way
• Shake up the cocktail of creation
• Tap into your natural ability to grow rich
• Shape your reality—stop playing victim to circumstance
• Get as wealthy as you wanna be
“This book truly crystallizes the concept that financial abundance is an inside job—in that it all begins with your mindset—and Sincero gets serious (in the funniest ways possible) about helping you identify your particular limiting beliefs surrounding money.” —PopSugar
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Life
- Publication dateApril 18, 2017
- File size1220 KB
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—PopSugar
“A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams.”
—New York Magazine
“All around badass Jen Sincero isn’t finished trying to help you live your most awesome life. No, now she’s here to help you become a money-making pro.”
—Bustle
“[Sincero] guides readers through thought exercises and mantras to change how readers talk to themselves about money and unleash their ability to attain it.”
—New York Times
“A HIIT workout for making bank.”
—Well+Good
“An accessible book for anyone looking to push the restart button on their personal finances.”
—New York Post
“Jen Sincero helps readers find true financial success through her combination of practical advice and deeply personal (and often hilarious) stories.”
—Today.com
About the Author
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I’d also like to point out that there’s nothing horribly wrong with you if you haven’t figured out how to do it yet. Money is one of the most loaded topics out there—we love money, hate money, obsess over money, ignore money, resent money, hoard money, crave money, bad-mouth money; money is rife with so much desire and shame and weirdness it’s a wonder we can utter the word above a whisper, let alone go out and joyfully rake it in. (Have you been brave enough to read this book in public I wonder? With the title in full view?)
It reminds me a lot of how we’ve been conditioned to deal with sex, another gold medalist in the Topics That Totally Freak People Out Competition. When it comes to having sex and making money, you’re supposed to know what you’re doing and be all great at it, but nobody teaches you anything about it, and you’re never supposed to talk about it because it’s inappropriate, dirty, not so classy. Both money and sex can provide unthinkable pleasures, birth new life, and inspire violence and divorce. We’re ashamed if we don’t have it, we’re even more ashamed to admit we want it, we will do things/people we’re not nuts about in order to get it, and I know I’m not the only one who has caught myself fantasizing about a stranger dressed like Batman coming up and giving me some on a bench in Central Park (am I?).
The good news is if you, like most people, have a troubled or conflicted relationship with money, you have the ability to heal it, transform it, and become such awesome pals with money that you wake up one day to find yourself standing in the middle of the life you’ve always wanted to live. And you can start making this change right now. All you need to do is wake up to what’s holding you back, make new, powerful choices about what you focus on, ensmarten yourself about money, and go for it like you ain’t never gone for it before. Which is what this book will help you do.
I personally transformed my financial reality so quickly and massively that everybody who knows me well is still wondering what the hell happened. And believe me when I say if my broke ass can do it, you can do it too, no matter how rickety or hopeless you may feel right now. Because I knew precisely zero things about making money until I was in my forties. My forties! That’s the age when most people possess things like houses and college funds for their kids and an understanding of how the Dow Jones works. Meanwhile, at forty I possessed a barren bank account, a deep wrinkle line between my eyebrows from stress, and a first-name basis relationship with Sheila at the collection agency.
For the vast majority of my adult life I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting nonamount considering how time consuming and challenging it was. Had I actually done the math, I would have realized just how free my lancing was, but I instead chose to be in denial of the facts, work harder, complain more, and just, you know, hope that I’d somehow magically start raking in the dough or get run over by someone rich who would then have to take care of me for the rest of my life. My watertight plan for getting out of financial struggle was partly a result of having a whole lotta hang-ups about money (money is evil, rich people are gross, I have no idea how to make it, I’d have no idea what to do with it even if I did know how to make it, etc.), and also because I was trapped in a perpetual state of indecision. I knew I was a writer, and I also knew I wanted to do more than sit alone in a room in my robe and type all day, I just didn’t know what it was I wanted to do. And rather than just picking something already and seeing where it led, I chose to bite my nails down to bloody nubs and wallow in the I Don’t Know What the Hell I Want to Do with My Life quagmire. For years. As in decades. It was so painful. And devastating. And utterly paralyzing. This is how I found myself at the ripe old age of forty, living in a converted garage, in an alley, in fear of requiring dental work, excelling at financial mediocrity in the following ways:
· Eating/drinking/filling my pockets with anything that was free, regardless of whether or not I really liked it or needed it.
· Walking countless blocks, in flip-flops, to save five dollars on valet parking.
· Employing duct tape, instead of professionals, to repair things like leaking pipes, busted shoe straps, fractured bones.
· Meeting friends at a restaurant for dinner, ordering a glass of water, tap is fine thanks, I love the tap in this city, before explaining to the table how I’m really not hungry, I’m stuffed actually, and then the free bread is placed on the table and disappears into my mouth in a blur.
· Choosing between phone service and health insurance.
· Spending excruciating amounts of time purchasing anything, from a TV to a bedspread to a wooden spoon, in order to thoroughly investigate every possibility of a cheaper option, a forthcoming sale, a coupon code, or to entertain the question, “Is this something I could perhaps make myself?”
If I’d put the same amount of time and focus that I put into freaking out about not having money, cutting back my expenses, finding the deals, haggling, researching, returning, refunding, redeeming, rerouting, rebating, into actually making money, I would have been driving a car with working windshield wipers years before I actually did.
This making money thing is not about never again making wise, informed purchases or rejoicing in a good sale or filling up on bread. It’s about giving yourself the options and the permission to be, do, and have whatever lights you up, instead of acting like a victim of your circumstances. It’s about not pretending everything is cool, I love having three roommates, none of whom know how to use a sponge or a goddamned broom, instead of focusing on making more money to afford yourself your own place for fear you’ll be judged or you’ll suck at it or that it’ll be too hard or no fun or out of your reach. It’s about creating the wealth that affords you the life you’d love to live instead of settling for what you think you can get.
The human ability to rationalize, defend, and accept our self-imposed drama is bananas. Especially because we have all the power within us to choose and create realities that totally kick ass. We see it all the time with people who are in miserable or even abusive relationships: “He’s just so sad and sorry after he cheats on me. It breaks my heart. Plus, the make-up sex is superhot.” We see it when people insist on staying in jobs they hate: “I spend my lunch breaks weeping in the stairwell I’m so miserable. But the health insurance is amazing.” Meanwhile their spirit and their time on this Earth are quickly swirling down the drain.
You have one glorious and brief shot at being the you that is you on Planet Earth, and the power to create whatever reality you desire. Why not be the biggest, happiest, most generous, and fully realized humanoid you can be?
Product details
- ASIN : B01HPCSD54
- Publisher : Penguin Life; Reprint edition (April 18, 2017)
- Publication date : April 18, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 1220 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 277 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1473690110
- Best Sellers Rank: #54,813 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #16 in Personal Money Management (Kindle Store)
- #129 in Personal Transformation
- #138 in Motivational Self-Help (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Jen Sincero is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, success coach and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars and books. Her #1 New York Times bestseller, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013), has sold over three million copies, is available in thirty-plus languages, and has been on the NY Times bestseller list for over 4 years. Her follow-up, You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth (2017), also a New York Times bestseller, is written with the same inimitable sass, down-to-earth humor and blunt practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller and Jen a celebrated voice in the world of self development. Based on her own transformation, from a frustrated forty year-old living in a converted garage watching tumbleweeds blow through her empty bank account, to a successful business owner traveling the world in style, You Are a Badass at Making Money is a testament to the fact that, in Jen’s words: “If my broke ass can get rich, you can too.”
As a highly sought-after speaker, Jen has shared her signature brand of motivational comedy with everyone from women entrepreneurs to multi national corporations to non-profits to educational institutions to her mom’s book group. In 2011 she sold most of her possessions and spent the next three years running her business from all corners of the globe, writing, speaking, coaching and encouraging people to live lives of unbridled awesomeness.
Jen and her work have appeared in a variety of media outlets including the New York Times, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah Magazine, Success Magazine/Radio, Money Magazine, Comedy Central, Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Interview, Cosmo and The Howard Stern Show. Her other books include the semi-autobiographical novel, Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer (2002) and The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping With Chicks (2005).
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Her purpose is to help people on their self-development journeys to remodel their personal and professional lives.
Whether you haven’t figured out how to make money yet, tried and failed, made it but lost it, or need a jumper cable restart, Jen says, “ You can make loads of money, even the I’ma-buyin-everyone-I-love-a-house kind of money if that turns you on.” She believes in living large and in charge.
Money can be a shameful, inappropriate, but also a hot, and alluring topic. People think they’re naturally supposed to know everything about money. $he debunks that in her book by flat out teaching you four steps; 1) wake up to what’s holding you back 2) make new powerful choices about what you focus on 3) smarten up about money 4) go for it like you ain’t never gone for it before. Each chapter ends with a few questions making sure your belief system is in check to receive your deserved riches. If you’re not, she provides exercises for that too keeping you on track.
Sincero insists, “If you have a troubled or conflicted relationship with money, you have the ability to heal it, transform it, and become such awesome pals with money that you wake up one day to find yourself standing in the middle of life you’ve always wanted to live. Start making this change right now.” Her message is to believe you can because just being you means you’ve already struck gold.
For many of us, we don't lack the opportunity or skill or luck to make an Abundantly FEEL GOOD, LIFE IS GREAT Type of Money or Lifestyle.
It is in Our BELIEFS and Subconscious Programming about Money (from a very young age and ongoing til now!) that keeps us STUCK and in the SAME Mediocre/Poor/Poverty loop that we can't seem to get out of, no matter the number of courses/classes/exercises we do on Wealth/Money Making.
I PROMISE YOU....It is ALL in your Mindset and Mental Programming.
Unless and Until you UNLOCK IT and GET RID OF THE Gibberish you have about Money, you'll never get to the Life that you would ABSOLUTELY LOVE (in all areas of life).
THIS BOOK will do that for you, so that "money" will never be an issue anymore, so that you can LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE!!!
This is such a Relatable, Easy Read..
THANK YOU JEN SINCERO, the Hero!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024
However, while I appreciate the numerous 'they did it, so can you' success stories intended to motivate and demonstrate the universality of the book’s principles, I found myself eventually skipping over these anecdotes. While initially uplifting, they began to feel repetitive and somewhat distracting from the core messages of the book. Each story, while inspirational on its own, started to blur into the next, making them less impactful over time.
Despite this critique, the book remains a highly motivating read that pushes you to believe in your financial potential and to dismantle the mental barriers you might have about money. For anyone looking to change their financial mindset and cultivate a wealth-oriented approach to life, this book offers robust tools and affirmations that can indeed spark significant changes.
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Jen Sincero incorporates her great sense of humor throughout the book. For example, while talking about money and the energy it represents Jen says, " . . . the fifty bucks you make by raking leaves for the lady across the street has a very different energy than the fifty bucks you steal out of some guy’s pocket on the subway."
Incidentally, Jen Sincero was broke and in debt, in her words, doing things like buying food at dollar stores, until her 40s. After getting her act together, she now makes seven figures a year.
This book has motivated me to get back to my creative projects and earn some real bucks again. You will hear about this later. Just a note that I don't really need to make more money. I just want to show that opportunities abound and that it can be done by a person my age. I want to show people that at the age of 72 I can still create works that will help me earn me over $500,000 in one year. The best I ever did was have a pretax income of $339,000 in 2015 but Jen Sincero has motivated me to hit the half million mark.
Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2021
Jen Sincero incorporates her great sense of humor throughout the book. For example, while talking about money and the energy it represents Jen says, " . . . the fifty bucks you make by raking leaves for the lady across the street has a very different energy than the fifty bucks you steal out of some guy’s pocket on the subway."
Incidentally, Jen Sincero was broke and in debt, in her words, doing things like buying food at dollar stores, until her 40s. After getting her act together, she now makes seven figures a year.
This book has motivated me to get back to my creative projects and earn some real bucks again. You will hear about this later. Just a note that I don't really need to make more money. I just want to show that opportunities abound and that it can be done by a person my age. I want to show people that at the age of 72 I can still create works that will help me earn me over $500,000 in one year. The best I ever did was have a pretax income of $339,000 in 2015 but Jen Sincero has motivated me to hit the half million mark.