Quotes from Jen Sincero

If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.

Nobody gets to the top without failing.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.

Sexuality has become much more fluid, and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment.

I was broke into my forties.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As far as self-confidence goes, so much of social media is about approval, getting likes, comparing our lives to others' - meanwhile, confidence is an inside job: it's about how you feel about yourself regardless of what anyone else does or thinks. It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

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.

Acknowledging that there's something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, 'You know what, it's fine; I'll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,' isn't happiness. It's denial.

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.

Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.

One of the biggest obstacles to making lots of money is not a lack of good ideas or opportunities or time, or that we're too slovenly or stupid: it's that we refuse to give ourselves permission to become rich.

People love to tell you what you should and shouldn't want, regardless of what you have to say about it.

We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that exist in our fear-based society, and we get beaten down. Being confident means peeling away the doubt, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident people have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.

We don't even realize how loaded of a topic money is. We've got really serious judgments on it.

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.

Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.