About
Hello and welcome –
“Aim for Awesome!” is an easy to grasp reality-based positive motivation & personal development blog. I’ve tried to write helpful articles from a unique viewpoint. Sometimes you’ll share my viewpoint and other times you won’t. I encourage you to leave comments either way and help create a dialogue between us.
SMILES - SMARTS - SUCCESS
Though you won’t see categories for 2 out of 3 of these topics, they are the foundation around which this blog was created. These 3 principles are primary in my life, essentially guiding everything I do.
SMILES
All my life I’ve laughed more than ANYONE I know. I’ve had more fun in my life than a person has a right to. I noticed about age 30 that my friends weren’t laughing that much anymore. And now, at 41, I’m lucky to see spontaneous laughter once a week from some of them. That’s downright distressing!
In my private logic I believe I need to help others add it to their lives. I couldn’t imagine life without laughing everyday. I really enjoy helping others laugh and have a good time. I love to change seriousness to smiles. I love to watch them realize life is just a game. It’s a game we’re playing 24 hours per day and 7 days per week, 4.2 weeks per month, and you know the rest of it.
Life is NOT meant to be serious. It is a game of epic proportions. Can you imagine the detail that went into creating all the rules and variables of this game? Fascinating! Who created it? Who knows. Not me. Did you? You neither? We’ve been left with no definitive explanation, hence I let smiles, smarts, and success dictate my life.
I’m continually blown off my feet (and into a chaise lounge on the beach) when I realize what a monumental game this all is. It’s blissful and catastrophic all at the same time. It’s intricately detailed with rules and expected behavior that leads to stagnation and boredom if one isn’t careful.
Yet, at any time someone could “spit in the soup”* and shake the whole game up.
I am that soup spitter at times. I like to shake things up when people are a bit too serious and a bit too self-righteous. I like to throw out the mindbomb type questions that get people thinking about themselves less seriously.
I like to get people to question the status quo. I want them to question their own personal “quo” too. Forget about all the QUO for &%&$’S SAKE!
SMARTS
There are people that are smart and there are those that are not so smart. And, I’m speaking of the same people. You may be “Bennie Bey Onde Brilliant” and yet to the rest of the world - you’re an idiot. There are so many areas of life in which your brilliance can be shown. However, there are few areas that it must be shown to get along with others. If you haven’t noticed, there are over 6 billion other players in this game. If you’re not keeping at least a small group of them happy with you… well, quite frankly this game is going to suck for you.
Satellite newsflash: There’s no other game.
So - we’ve gotta be smart about this game. We’ve gotta keep ourselves happy and keep some others happy too. I noticed that if I’m happy - I make others happy. If others are happy - I’m happy too. It’s a nice circular happy-happy. I like to spend time with others that are usually happy, it makes me happy, are you happy? See how it’s coming back to “SMILES” again? It always does…
SUCCESS
If you’ve got SMILES and you have SMARTS, you have success - yes? No. There are so many factors that go into success that people write whole blogs about them. Hence “Aim for Awesome”.
Success is one of those things that most of us just aren’t naturally “programmed” for. Success can be thought of as a formula. If you make the variables in the formula work then you might have it. But, you might not because YOU choose what success means. What is “success” to one person doesn’t mean it’s considered success to another. Success is elusive to those that are chasing it - and it’s natural to some of those that understand it’s phenomenologically based. That is, it’s based on the individual. YOU define success, nobody else.
Success is something that can be programmed into your mind. You can change the things that you believe so that you believe you can be successful. What you believe can manifest itself as actual results.
I BELIEVE THAT!
Not because I think there is some higher power out there looking out for me in case I decide to let go of the steering wheel and let the cosmos, fate, karma or destiny steer me in the right direction. I’m far too reality conscious to go for that idea.
To be successful in this game you really should be SMILEY and SMART. Smiley first. Smart second. Successful third.
So, with this blog I will show you in as many ways as cybergistically possible how to spend your life being guided by these 3 life rules.
If you’re curious about my background and what I’ve done in the past, how I’ve screwed up my life before and what not… (it’s good reading - really!) Have a look at my “Bio Page” in which I spill it all. Well, I spill enough that mom would say - CLEAN THAT UP before someone sees it, but of course I won’t spill it ALL because it’d need a toxic clean-up crew!
Enjoy the writings, leave as many comments as you can stand writing, and if you have any questions at all - zap me a mail at: AimforAwesome ~ at ~ gmail.
Best of Life!
* “Spitting in the soup” is a phrase coined by one of my favorite psychiatrists and thinkers, Alfred Adler. It is meant to imply someone shaking things up and throwing a ‘fly into the ointment’ so to speak. This is not to be confused with the rock group, “Stone Temple Pilots” song, “Flies in the Vaseline” which is an entirely different thing altogether! ;)
