Creator’s Block Book Club: You Are a Badass
I recently took Friday off for a personal mental health day to reset and recharge. The past few months have been some of the most rewarding and challenging I've experienced in my career so far as I adjusted to my new role as Account Supervisor.
I entered a new world of management that I wasn't previously familiar with. Though I've accomplished a lot over these months, it certainly hasn't been easy and over the past few weeks I started to feel like I wasn't doing my job well enough.
Self-doubt is something I've struggled with over the years so I knew when Marcella recommended me to read You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, it was exactly what I needed.
Author Jen Sincero provides a witty approach to learning how to love yourself and attracting the people and energy you need in life in order to embrace your inner badass.
The book starts off with some high-level, feel-good advice but eventually taps into actionable takeaways you can incorporate into your every day. A few of my favorite messages and exercises include:
- Make enjoying your life a priority
- Ditch the self-deprecating humor
- Forgive yourself
- Take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves
- Find a cause you care about and give to it every month (however you can, whether by money or time!)
- Compliment your peers and others
Though these may seem obvious to you, I promise that the sentiments go much deeper. Listen to Marcella and I discuss these topics and more in this week's episode of Creator's Block!