You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

As French author and fearless truth-seeker, André Gide, so aptly put it, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Practice coming from a place of integrity and you will be victorious.

Using this scenario, some of the positive benefits of being rigid are that you’re always on time, you get shit done, etc. But there are also some negative advantages to being rigid too; you intimidate people into getting your way, you get to be right whenever someone messes up (which they’ll do often if you’ve really honed the rigid thing well), yo

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Wanting can be done sitting on the couch with a bong in your hand and a travel magazine in your lap. Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.

Wanting can be done sitting on the couch with a bong in your hand and a travel magazine in your lap. Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after

The good news is that in order to do this, all you need to do is make one simple shift: You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”