Attitude
How can I make everyday awesome?
This is a question that I have been asking myself and for me the first way to be and stay awesome is to check my attitude.
I tell my kids all the time “attitude is up to you.”
To have a good attitude or a bad is my first step being awesome in my interactions first with my family and then with the outside world.
I’m committing to being awesome starting with checking my attitude.
Willingness.
The choice to make everyday awesome means that I have willingness to do the things that make for an awesome day, week, month, year and life.
Living your best life isn’t a one man/woman job but it is a personal choice, and it a choice you will have to make.
I don’t want to look back at my life and say “ya that was a good life” I want to look back and say “that was an awesome life.” I want it to have meant something to me and to the people who I encountered.
Nothing changes for me till I decide to change something.
What will you choose?
Extend yourself
It takes putting yourself out there to be awesome.
Not just wandering around out in the world but trying things, honing your skills.
My mentor has challenged me to stop looking at results and to just practice the basics.
For me that means one thing for someone else something different.
Average does just enough to get by that’s not who I will be.
Awesome puts their best foot forward and then the other extending themself toward the prize.
The apostle Paul a biblical hero of mine said to run the race with the intention of winning can’t do that sitting down or doing just enough.
I must put myself out there and be uncomfortable long enough to win long enough to be awesome.
Showing up.
Showing up is 80% of success and 14.29% of awesome, that’s how the math works out anyhow.
If I’m gonna be awesome for myself, my family, my team, and for the world I’ve got to come to things with awesome in mind daily.
It can’t be a sometimes thing it’s gotta be a daily thing or I will loose track of what I’m after.
One of my all time favorite verses from the Bible is Psalms 25:5 the last sentence specifically. “I will hope in you all day long”
I’ve only got the capacity to do one day at a time it why Jesus teaching prayer was for us to ask for daily bread.
Whatever the percentage showing up is do what you do today with the decision to be awesome in everything your present for.
Own it.
I hate looking stupid.
Doing something I’m not good at can sometimes result in me looking silly it’s kind of embarrassing but how I’ve learned to switch that in my head is to own the mistake. Someone can’t laugh at me if I’m laughing too one of us is just joining in.
Being awesome means that I have to travel down “I suck at this” street.
The road is a lot easier if I own the failure and enjoy the ride knowing that my destination is awesome.
Make it count.
Everyday is an opportunity to make a difference it’s also an opportunity to do nothing.
Awesome people don’t do nothing they step up and make it count.
Here’s a quote from The Man in the Arena by Teddy Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...”
Being awesome means getting into the arena and making everyday and every struggle count.
Being awesome is not standing around giving commentary.
Find your arena and get into it everyday.
Expectation
The law of attraction says that what you project you can expect.
So what are you expecting from 2021?
People literally are calling 2020 a year from hell. There are countless ways this has been expressed but what is 2021 supposed to be part 2 or day one?
I expect 2021 to be awesome I expect 2021 to be filled with Hope regardless of what happens and by this time next year I expect that great things will have happened because I’m looking for it.
What will you be looking for?
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