You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

fact that they need to turn slightly to the left? The signs are an eyesore and a
waste of taxpayer money and if you’re that much of a twat that you can’t
navigate the road without an arrow every two feet, you shouldn’t be driving.”
I was then to learn that this was not the first time she’d paraded the word
“twat” before the esteemed council—she had apparently been flinging it
around for years in response to the twats in the mayor’s office responsible for
passing her least favorite ordinances, the high school twats who spray-painted
Class of 2003 on the sidewalk in front of the deli, and, most passionately, the
stupid idiot twat of a drunk driver who took out a phone pole on Elm Road
last Halloween.
“I thought it meant ‘twit,’” came her muffled voice. “And Ginny Adams,
the head of the garden club and a full-fledged twat in the truest sense of the
word, thank you very much, is the one who pulled me aside and told me to
clean up my act. Oh God.” By taking a stand to end the twittery in her
community, my poor mother not only discovered the power of choosing her
words wisely, but she discovered that she’d unwittingly become an interesting
town character.
When you don’t investigate what’s going on with your words, thoughts,
and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot. You may, for
example, automatically assume that your beliefs are founded in your own
truths rather than perhaps the truths of your parents and/or the people around
you. Or that your words accurately express your beliefs, instead of being
mindless regurgitations of stuff you’ve heard before or proof that you have a
lousy handle on vocabulary. And don’t even get me started on how much time
we waste spinning out on thoughts that are, shall we say, less than productive.
Once you wake up, become aware of your thoughts, beliefs, and words, and
start choosing them wisely, you can avoid staying stuck in a life of
excruciating ho-hummery (or worse), constantly being in financial struggle
or, as in Mom’s case, getting reprimanded for having a potty mouth by
someone who is a far inferior gardener than you are.
When we don’t master our minds, we risk building our lives on a foundation
of flimsiness.
Mastering your mindset is important in all areas of your life, and it’s
especially critical when it comes to money because money plays such a
massive role here on Earth. We literally can’t function without it. Realizing
you’ve left the house without your wallet is as alarming as realizing you’ve
left your journal on the subway or forgotten Grandma at the truck stop. Not a
day goes by where we don’t use money, or use something that was paid for
with money, or have an experience that is somehow connected to money. Not.
One. Single. Day. Money’s in the roads we drive on, the food we eat, the