Do you want to be awesome? Sure, we all do. If you want to be certifiably awesome then all you have to do is follow these five steps.
- Buy trendy clothes so that people will like you before they get to know your personality. Right now that means buy colored jeans. Like red. I tried to buy red jeans but they are only made for skinny people. I’d have to go down four sizes to fit into the skinny red pants that I was looking at.
- Lose weight. Truly awesome people are skinny. After all they don’t sell tight skinny red pants at the Big & Tall store.
- Only say trendy words. If you still say “whoomp there it is” you probably need lessons on being awesome. To obtain an awesome vocabulary watch a lot of E on cable, listen to rap, and avoid saying anything that was trendy when you were in high school.
- Find awesome people and become their best friend. If they won’t be your best friend don’t take no for an answer. You will become awesome by association whether they like it or not.
- Talk a lot about how awesome you are. Nobodies perfect. That’s true, but nobody needs to know about your flaws. If you talk about how awesome you are on a regular basis it will magnify your awesomeness and overshadow you imperfections.
With these 5 steps you too can be awesome!
Or you can find your identity in Jesus and boast in your weakness. Do what?
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. – 2 Corinthians 12:9
It’s exhausting to try and make people think you are awesome. On the other hand it’s freeing to find your identity in Jesus and to boast in your weakness.
I can’t fit into tight skinny red pants, when I hear that swag is the new word of choice for awesome people I can’t help but think of S.W.A.G. – stuff we all get, I have a sign on my forehead that says “if you are awesome run away”, and I can’t help but talk about my flaws.
A goal of my life is to be me. To be the me that God created me to be. I often forget this and try to please people. Thankfully awesome is as awesome does and I am found in Jesus. I don’t know if that sentence makes sense, but I am still found in Jesus and that’s wicked awesome.
What characteristics do you think make someone awesome?
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I heard on TV one time someone give their definition of the word sexy.
Sexy – to feel comfortable in one’s own skin.
I hope to feel sexy some day. That would be awesome.
Daniel, I hope that for you as well. One thing that might help is to listen to “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred on repeat for 24 hours. Let me know how that works out for you.
Being authenic, not trying to “keep up with the Jones’”, not giving in to peer pressure.
Joan, those are awesome qualities.
People who are really good listeners . Promptness. Considerate. And sexy people. Lol
Laura, I like how you threw in sexy people. That’s the second sexy comment today. Funny.
Thoreau says it well, “Be yourself–not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” While I like Thoreau’s quote, I also admire the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta’s point: “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.” Yet, God sets the ultimate expression of being oneself when He declares, “I am”.
What an awesome statement: “I am”. Even Popeye the Sailor Man gets it with his motto: “I yam what I yam”.
Mim, I think I inspired a blog post out of you. Great stuff. Where did you get those quotes?
I have to agree with Mim: “Even Popeye the Sailor Man gets it with his motto: “I yam what I yam”
So true…
Jim, that was a great line!
People who write daily blogs are awesome.
Phil, you are awesome!
Eye to eye contact when you are talking to them.
Being compassionate.
Nice smile.
Kris, I struggle with the eye to eye contact. I want to but then I get so distracted by what others are doing around me. I’m a work in progress.
Owning all Mac products… Obviously!
Scott, nice. Guilty!
I’m too sexy for my hat, too sexy for my hat, whatcha think about that?
I try to avoid being awesome. It draws too much attention, and you get asked to do stuff.
Good words, brother.
Jeff, I’m a model, you know what I mean, and I shake my little tush on the catwalk.
Knowing who you are in Christ, without reservation or doubt is one of the most freeing things in life…that and of course, being able to fit into skinny jeans ( just KIDDING!)
Shay, I agree. Funny stuff.
Authentic. Awesome people are authentic.
Larry, I agree with that. I was reminded this past week how easy it is to try to impress people. It’s not easy, but the more I find my identity in Jesus the less fake I become.
Rob, this post is awesome!
Beautiful things happen when we let go of being moved by what people think of us, and entrust our reputations to Jesus.
Thanks Chad! It’s so true. It’s taken me over 30 years to find the real me. I’m still a work in progress but I’m finding out more and more who I am in Jesus.
Clearly a big beard helps. If you’re a man. If you laugh at my jokes, that helps, too.