You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

have faith that the Universe had something awesome in store for you, was there for you, and was, you know,
smarter than you, you wouldn’t let go of your present truth.
Faith strengthens your self-confidence. If you’re badass enough to leap off the edge of your present reality into
the void, is there anything you can’t do? The answer: No. Nothing.
Faith strengthens your abundance mindset. Faith in the unknown and the miraculous removes your focus from
what you lack, and homes in on infinite possibility. What you focus on you create more of. Hence, faith =
abundance mindset = you’re gonna need some bigger pockets.
Let’s put faith into the context of stand-up comedy because it’s a great metaphor for the sort of grit
it takes to put yourself all the way out on the edge. If you lob a joke out into the audience and all you
hear is crickets, it’s just you up there with nowhere to turn, sucking on stage for all to see. You might
as well just go ahead and do it naked to complete the nightmare. But when you nail a joke, all eyes
are on you, all the laughter and glory is yours. It’s thrilling, it’s terrifying, it’s all or nothing, and it’s
all you.
When you go big and take the scary leaps you need to take to change your financial sitch—hire an
expensive stylist, enroll in beauty school, write your book, buy a castle and turn it into a disco—
you’re up there on stage with no idea what’s on the other side of those blinding lights, free-falling
through space. But here’s the great news: If you nail it, party time! If you bomb, you now know what
didn’t work, so when you go out there and give it another shot, you get to do so with more info. Taking
a leap of faith is a win/win. Treading water in your comfort zone for the rest of your life is a
snore/yawn.
Faith, like all other facets of our mindset, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. The
bigger the leap, the stronger your faith muscle needs to be. Staying steady, focused, and fixated on
your faith when the poop really hits the fan marks the difference between those who are successful
and those who fail. It’s usually right after we think we literally cannot take one moment more of the
uncertainty or the waiting or the pressure or the disappointments—Holy hellballs, are you trying to
kill me over here?—that the big investor comes through, or the counteroffer is accepted, or the soul
mate walks through the door.
A test of faith is like playing chicken with the Universe.
The Universe wants you to grow and bloom into the most glorious version of yourself. Growth
happens through friction and challenge, and the lessons we learn through these experiences. Because
the Universe is so excited for you to be all you can be, it is going to send you all the learning
experiences you need: Here’s a flat tire on your way to your wedding! Here’s a hurricane and a
flood the day you open your new business! Here’s nowhere to park when you’re late for the job
interview of your dreams! When you have faith that everything happens as it’s meant to, you open
yourself up to receive the lesson, to stay the course until you’re successful, and to not totally lose your
shit.
In the midst of the particularly trying lessons and growing experiences, you have to hang in there
like your life depends on it. With the really big stuff, very often you’re required to get to the point
where your faith is the only thing you’ve got left, because you’ve gone so far out to the edge that