People will tell you that there are all kinds of yardsticks to measure progress.
What they don’t say is that most of them are worthless.
Money, career, fame… whatever. That’s all fine and good, but the bottom line is that there is one thing– just one– that really matters.
Being fucking awesome.
You can be broke and be awesome.
You can be in a wheelchair and be awesome.
You can be homeless and be awesome.
You can even be dead and be awesome.
You want a purpose to your life? I got one for ya.
From this day forth, your purpose is to be the most fucking awesome person you can imagine being.
What kind of friends do you want to have?
What kind of job do you want?
What kind of life do you want to have?
The answer to all of these is simple: you want friends, work, and everything else to be awesome. The more your life is awesome, the better everything is, and the happier you are, whoo!
Seriously, being awesome should be a fucking religion.
There are three– count ‘em, three– standards for awesome. Here they are, in no particular order of bigness.
1. Yourself
Their are times when I think that my life couldn't get more awesome.
First, I make more money then I should. That's the truth.
Second, I have a wife that gets up every day with the sole purpose of making my life and our kids lives perfect. How awesome is that?
Third, My kids work hard at school, their relationships with their friends and general seem to be good caring kids.
But truthfully, I think I am just now realizing how awesome my life is.
Because at 42 I'm starting to realize that HAPPY people understand that to enjoy life you live it -- you don’t think about it.
Anyone can become more awesome. This means you.
But wait, there’s more! What’s great about the world of awesome is that it’s totally subjective. You don’t have to care about the ways I do it, and I don’t have to like yours. The main judge is yourself, and whether you like yourself more than you did yesterday or last year.
If you do, congratulations! You are becoming, or already are, awesome. But here’s the clincher.
This is only true if you are honest with yourself.
There are a lot of people (people in public relations, or something) who claim that maybe their job is awesome. Or maybe guys that make a lot of money and think that they can be in on this love-fest too. Wrong.
For a long time I hated my job as a recruiter although I told everyone that I loved it. That was crap. I hated it because for a long time I let my job consume my life. I didn't have other interests. I literally thought about work or work related matters 24X7. Even if I was not at work, I really didn't get a break from it
Doing something prestigious does not equal being awesome. In other words, awesome does not look the same close-up as it does from far away. Which brings us to the next point.
2. Your friends/peers
Who are the people that you care about, and that you work with?
People who know you are a great judge of whether or not you are awesome, and also, how to become more awesome.
So one of the litmus tests for whether you are awesome is the people around you who don’t believe the hype. Hey, speaking of hype
Your peers, btw, can see things you definitely can’t, or won’t. You’re too used to yourself– this is why you think you’re handsome and that your beer belly “doesn’t look that bad.” (Neither of which have anything to do with being awesome, but you get my point.) Other people will always see you better than you can see yourself.
Do you have people around you that you can count on? Then I suggest you go ask them. Find the most awesome people you know and ask them how.
If you speak to a bunch of people, and they all think you’re great, super! You might be awesome. But, then again, it’s possible that you actually have another problem. See below.
3. Your world
Ok, so first of all, your world is as big as you want it to be, so it’s not important what you choose here, with one condition.
If you are already awesome to everyone in your world, then your world needs to get bigger.
You do this by getting out of the little pond and doing new things, or having a positive influence on people outside of your sphere. You ever notice how people who volunteer (if they’re not self-righteous) tend to be fucking awesome?
I’m pretty sure there’s actually a relationship between how many people you help outside of your sphere and how awesome people inside your sphere think you are. Makes sense right?
Seriously, it’s that easy. You can just decide to become more awesome, whichever way you want, and then look it up on the internet to figure out how. The knowledge automagically makes your world bigger, which makes you more awesome. Then you just go ahead and do that thing, which is easy because you just figured out how. Whoo!
Anyway, what was my point with this? Oh yes. Being awesome is now your new religion. Welcome to the Cult of Awesome. It’s very exclusive, but there are lots of perks.
Your job is now to look out to the wide world, and take a look at what impresses you, at what you find absolutely great, and then find ways to become more like that.
We need more awesome people in this world, and I would like you to be one of them.
