you are a badass part 2

Here we go to the second part of the review. In the first part of this book which is How You Got This Way, Jen starts with how should we start or even begin. The first part consist of 5 chapter.

The first chapter is My Subconscious Made It.

 

As humans, we have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind.

Conscious mind is our ability to think, about what is right and wrong, the real reality. Whilst Subconscious is our pure and innocent that does not understand what is right or wrong, they believe in whatever they hear or see, it developed to be our feeling and instinct.

Say our conscious mind is gas while our subconscious mind is the brake. As I have said, everything a conscious mind believes we see and hear. If our parents say that the woman’s duty is just to take care household and no need to work to pursue their dream, we will believe. Aside parents, we also believe what society brainwash in our minds, like size matters, you have to be white to be beautiful, we will believe. And what's worse, what they put into our minds—which likely not entirely true—will develop into beliefs, which can limit our minds.

"Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else’s beliefs."

Say, your conscious mind ask that you should hang out, meet new people or even travel abroad, but you are growing up belief that you should avoid strangers, or the world is a dangerous place—because your parents told you so—automatically your subconscious mind stops you from doing what you conscious mind asked you.

Our subconscious mind limits us to grow, to look for our true identity and made us close-minded whilst we are fed up enough with the mumbo jumbo society told us.

And that is the first step to changes, realize the real reason we can’t change and we should be open-minded.

The second chapter is The G Word.

Jen said, as another self-help-improving book. God would always be included. But, she never truly believe in that matter specifically. Until, she decided to start to believe again just because she had nothing to lose. Then, she started to notice something different happens and are going to happen to her life.

“This is about your faith being greater than your fear.”

Instead being afraid of anything—in improving yourself specifically—you just gotta believe in God that everything is already written and decided even in most uncertain things. You just gotta open your mind and believe that there is something bright after everything you have done.

The next chapter is Present as Pigeon.

 

 

Keep an open mind is truly blessed on our life. It’d open all closed door that hold you at some point. Open mind is having a mind that see everything in the positive way, see a good in a bad.

As our mind open, we start to see opportunity in the simplest thing. As a matter of fact, opportunities is already exist around us. It’s just that we get so overwhelmed and we are not yet aware of their existence. Therefore, sometimes we just gotta take a minute to be thankful on what we have and feel right now. By thankful, we start to notice all the opportunities we have not yet notice.

The next chapter is The Big Snooze.

 

Author refers The Big Snooze as Ego which means the part of our body that stop us for being happy. Ego stop us to see the world more brighter and broader. It’s like let us sleep on how truly powerful we are or how massively our universe is. Ego, also means that we let unnecessary people taking part in our life.

“…having others smear their fear and worry all over you is the last thing you need when you’re strengthening your superhero muscles to step out and take some risks.”

 

Sometimes in life you face people that doesn’t like your success in life, and concern about what you doing in life. And sometimes, that’s what stop us for doing what we like, we are so fed up on what others say that we afraid to start something new. And, having people like that surrounding you is the last thing you need in order to develop yourself. You just gotta trust in yourself, and move on.

“…Trust that your new life is already here and is far better than the old.”

The final chapter of the first part is Self-Perception is A Zoo.

 

Self-perception or as we know as self-love is the most important thing to self-help development. We spend our lives ignore ourselves and busy with what people’s life. We are anxious if people success and we let ourselves drown with a self-disappointment.

For a started we should be our own fans that support and accept everything we are.

“You are a badass. You can’t screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It’s who you always will be.”

We should have trust and love our own self, because if it doesn’t us, who does?

Loving yourself means that you won’t give up on you, once you fall, you would bring yourself up. You let yourself begin your each journey in starting your new best life. You are perfect in every way, you are one persistent human being that doesn’t give a single care to what everyone says about your journey.

And that wrapped up the first part of this book. In conclusion, to change your life its all come within yourself. You have to conscious on what you should trust or no, that doesn’t get in the way of your journey. You should open your mind, and notice all the existence of opportunities that God has given you. You should never trust what everyone said about you that let you down. You should love yourself, because you are a badass.