Being Awesome and Loving Yourself

Over the next few weeks I'm going to be work shopping the next new thing for me. It's a book called "Being Awesome and Loving Yourself." I'm not going to post the book here, but I'm going to use this blog as a brainstorm environment for themes and ideas that will ultimately make up the meat and potatoes of my book....at least we'll get some blogs out of it anyway.




Being Awesome:

Awesome is obviously slang for something being really great, or awe inspiring. Awesome is the word I use for myself. Ultimately I want you to have your own word for yourself that means something to you. But until you do, go ahead and use mine and be awesome. Say it right now. "My name is ________ and I am awesome."

You might already think you're pretty cool, even a little awesome. You might start thinking to yourself, I don't need to know how to love myself, I love myself pretty darn good come to think of it. You might be right, not everyone needs this book. Put it down, stop reading and go be amazing. Best of luck to you. As for the rest of us...

Being awesome has a lot in common with hitting a home run. I have hit 7 in my life time. Hitting a home run and being awesome in life have nothing to do with results and everything to do with follow through. You show up everyday, and you keep your form solid and eventually you hit one out of the park.

Awesome people don't have time to worry or fear. It is not that they don't feel those emotions but they have already made arrangements for them. If something is scary they are going to confront it, and if something is troubling them they are going to get to the bottom of it. And whenever something comes up they keep at it and always follow it through to the finish line.

They don't do it because they want the recognition that comes along with being impressive, they do it so that their mind is doubtless and an open canvass ready and in shape for self love.

That's why people should be awesome. Not to win an award, or a ribbon, or be the most popular kid on your block. But because you are awesome. And anything less from you would be a disgrace. Now go look in that mirror, wink at that handsome guy or gal winking back and say to yourself "you know what baby...you are awesome."

Bad things happen to awesome people too:

You are going to fail and things are not going to go your way. That's life. Even when you're so amazingly awesome you fail. You trip, you get bruised, but you get up. You dust yourself off, and you follow through. You keep being awesome, don't ever give that up.

People, friends even, are going to point out all of your flaws along the way. They are going to tell you a million reasons why you shouldn't expect anything good, and question every major decision you are about to make in your life. They are going to hit you when you are down and it is going to hurt like a son of a bitch. They do this because if you do actually become the person you want to be, then they might have to become the people they want to be too. And for most people that's a little bit too much to handle at the moment.

Everyone has anchors, ghosts and skeletons in the closet. But when you're awesome and not a victim but the perpetrator who is completely utterly in charge of everything that goes on around them, and prepared for whatever could not be perceived. You are going to untie your star from all of your prior baggage and soar off into the night sky with only the edges of the universe as your boundaries. And when you get there you will have a plan for them too, you're fairly certain.

Being awesome begins with you. Take another look in the mirror. You see yourself? Look at all of that awesomeness looking right back at you. Put this book down and go out there and start soaring. Don't take shit from anyone today, especially all of the haters. If anyone says anything negative to you today you put up a fight, and teach them some manners. You're the awesome one now. Well that's actually a lie, because you cannot be awesome until I teach you how to love yourself. Tomorrow come back and read the next chapter on loving yourself. And when you do really love yourself and put your new awesome personality on top of it, nothing will ever stop you.