Toronto native Lilly Singh grew up in Scarborough. She attended Lester B. Pearson collegiate in the Malvern area and graduated from York University with a bachelor’s in psychology. She is a goodwill unit UNICEF ambassador and advocates for children’s rights

The comedian, actress, rapper and YouTube sensation is one of the highest paid YouTuber of all time with over 14,000,000 plus YouTube subscribers. Lilly started making YouTube videos because she was trying to get over her sadness. She took that negative energy, turned it on its head, took control of her life and look at her today.

Her number 1 book “How to be a Bose” is an Amazon bestseller and is also available on audible as an audio book. Paraphrased below are some of Lilly’s philosophies on life.

You already have everything you need
One of her philosophies is that you have everything you need to succeed. She also feels that you need to find people to work with who work harder than you .So if you are a hard worker the sky is the limit.

Take control of your life
You have to take control of your life and stop telling yourself that you can’t do things. You must also take ownership of what you do and not blame others. The only person stopping you is you.

Put time into your goals
She feels that whatever you want to achieve, you need to want it bad enough. If you spend all your time playing games and sleeping all day, hanging out with your friends and partying you really don’t want it bad enough. It is the person who puts in the ground work who will be successful.

Get your work done.
Make long and short term goals. Don’t just write a “to do list”, do them.

Fail fast
Lilly agrees it important to learn to make mistakes and fail fast. She states that if you haven’t made mistakes you have not been trying hard enough.

Do You
No matter what everyone else is doing “do you”. Every individual has their own style. Remember no one can offer what you have to offer. Even if everyone wants to be a dancer, a painter or a doctor they will never be exactly the same, so do you.

Stay away from negative people
You should ignore ignorant or insecure people remember they are the ones with the problem people. She has found that people who comment negatively online have nothing better to do and need to take out their negativity on others.

Surround yourself with likeminded people
Find your tribe. If you are lucky you are surrounded by positive, focused, hard working people. If you are around people who are not achieving, who do not have the same goals as you, you need to find the people who will make you want to get your act together.

Be confident
To feel like 1 million bucks you don’t need to spend 1 million bucks. When you leave the house dress so you feel confident in what you are wearing. You should be able to turn a few heads. Everyone is beautiful in their own way.

Always get back on your feet
Life may beat the crap out of you emotionally and mentally. You need to get back up. You may have lost your boyfriend, girlfriend or your job. Never give up, get the hell back up 900 times if you have to. Realize the world owes you nothing and the sun will still rise no matter what is going on with you.

Forget revenge
If everyone tries to get revenge on the people that have done them wrong the world would be a hot mess. Two wrongs do not make a right. Don’t be driven by the need to make other people feel stupid. Be driven by the need to prove herself right not to prove others wrong. Do it for you.

Wise philosophies from the amazing Super Woman, Lilly Singh.