You Are a Badass at Making Money

party you’re going to attend.
Overwhelm: When you make the unhelpful decision to stop breathing,
lose perspective, and forget you’re in control of your life.
Here are a couple of ways to beat the beast of overwhelm back into its
cage:
1. Investigate the specifics. We cause ourselves so much unnecessary pain when we fly
off the handle and assume that the vague, infinite details of our lives are crushing us
to death. Meanwhile, we usually have no idea what we’re talking about. For example: I
have a million e-mails to answer and I have to pick up the kids and make dinner and I
have to apply for a loan for my new business—I am never going to get it all done!
becomes, post investigation: The e-mails will take forty-five minutes to answer
because there are actually twelve of them, not a million, dinner takes thirty minutes to

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throw together, I can get my neighbor to pick up the kids, and I’ll have plenty of time to
fill out my loan application. Oh. Certainly there are some times when we’ve bitten off
more than we can chew, but I promise you, the majority of your overwhelm can be set
at ease by getting some clarity.
2. Chunk your to-dos down into bite-sized pieces. Facing the task of writing an entire
book will make you want to lie down in the road; sitting down to write one chapter is
exciting. Facing the task of doubling your income by studying your ass off, getting into
medical school, going to medical school, interning, and opening a private practice will
make you envy your bartender’s career choice; digging into the information in the first
chapter of your medical textbook is exciting. Facing the task of traversing miles and
miles of unfriendly, frozen terrain with a body that’s been through a wood chipper will
make you want to exit stage right; spending the next twenty minutes getting from point
A to point B with the same wood-chipped body is not exciting but, you know, sucks
less.
The other critical thing chunking your time does is provide focus. Using the
example of the dude stuck on the mountain again, during his twenty-minute spurts he
was focused on nothing but the task at hand. This focus did two things: One, it
strengthened his faith. What you focus on you create more of, and all he focused on
was hauling his ass to the desired endpoint. End of story. No thoughts of stopping or
failing or boohooing. He focused solely on the possibility of success and that’s what
he achieved over and over, and each time he did, his faith got stronger. Second, this
steadfast focus helped him maximize his time. The dude did not have the luxury of
screwing around, writing his name with his pee in a snowbank, or making snow
angels, he was in serious need of a glass of water pronto, so every second counted.
We too are going to die, and every second counts in our lives, but we
tend to forget about this urgency and spend our precious time on Earth
procrastinating, whining, focusing on and believing in thoughts that hold us
back instead of getting the job done. People who spend eight hours a day at
a job spend about three collective hours being productive and the rest of the
time hanging out at the water cooler, staring blankly into the fridge in the
break room, thinking about sex, watching ducks chase a dog around a bush
on Facebook, etc. If you feel like you have all the time in the world to do
something, you will take all the time in the world. If you have twenty
minutes, the task will take you twenty minutes. Chunking down your time
and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates
urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do
other things.
Time comes to those who make it, not those who try to find it.

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Here’s a breakdown of the action steps we’ve gone over so far that will
help you put a new bulge in your wallet:
Get clear on the amount of money you’re going to make, the specifics of what
the money’s for, and how freaking awesome it feels to make it.
Decide, with unshakable commitment, that you are making this money.
Get a plan together to make the money you desire to make, chunk the plan back
into bite-sized pieces, and focus yer ass off on one goal at a time.
Hold an image in your mind of the life you’re creating and all the money that’s
flowing toward you with eager excitement, hardcore faith, and deep gratitude.
Do your best wherever you’re at. If, while building your greeting card empire,
you’ve taken a job scraping gum off the bottom of tables at a bowling alley,
instead of being pissed off about having a job that you don’t exactly love (what
you focus on you create more of), find the silver lining, be the best damn gum
scraper that table has ever worked with, and have an attitude of gratitude.
A desire to grow is not the same as being negative about where you’re at.
When the Universe presents a How that leads in the direction of your goal to
make more money, instead of talking yourself out of it, leap into its lovin’ arms
immediately. Especially if it’s scary. When the thoughts come to you, all you
need to answer for yourself are these three questions: Is this something I want
to be, do, or have? Is this leading me in the direction of my goal? Is it going to
screw anybody over if I do this? If you get satisfactory answers to those
questions, go for it.
Let your fear be your compass.
Remember that $85,000 I told you I manifested to pay for my big fat
coaching package? Well I’ma tell you how I did it because it was right up
there with one of the scariest, most uncomfortable things I’ve ever done.
Once I decided to get coached at that level for reals, instead of running and
hiding like I did the first time around, I acted on an idea that came into my

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mind the moment it arrived. This idea was not something that was fun or
comfortable or anything I’d pass up having a full-body waxing session to
go do, but I did it because my desire to kick ass was stronger than my desire
to waste more time living the life I was living. I got the idea of someone I
could maybe borrow that money from, someone who a) knew very little
about coaching, and what she did know probably brought to mind words
like “snake oil” and “manipulative garbage” and “bunch of weirdos”; b) is
the most Frugal McDugal person I’d ever met, the kind who has money but
never, ever spends it except to stockpile toilet paper when it goes on sale; c)
believed in me.
I bought a plane ticket to fly to her house the moment the terrifying
thought took over my brain (which cost about a thousand dollars more than
usual thanks to the last minuteness of it all) and arrived on her doorstep,
surprising the hell out of her. I risked being vulnerable to this person, I
risked her thinking I was out of my mind, irresponsible, very possibly in a
cult. And I will never forget the pained face she made when I told her how
much I needed. But after much uncomfortable discussion, she forked it
over. And I proceeded not only to make the money to pay her back in less
than a year, but thanks to the fact that I’d faced my terror and asked, along
with getting a year of some of the best coaching I ever got, I went where no
Jen Sincero had ever gone before. I took huge, terrifying risks on a
consistent basis, hired a team to create videos and improve my online
structures unlike the old days of doing it all myself, created new products
and services, upped my rates and reached out to clients who were “out of
my league,” sat my ass down and wrote a book that became a New York
Times bestseller—basically I did all the things I was too scared/cheap/lazy
to do before, and all of which led to the seven-figure business and brand I
have today. And it never would have happened if I hadn’t started by doing
something I soooooooooooooo did not want to do.
IMPORTANT $85,000 NOTE: If you’re reading this and thinking, Oh