How to earn your Doctorate in Awesomeness...

All the time people ask me, "Chad, how are you so awesome?"  Well gentle reader I am going to share with you the easy steps to becoming awesome and how to wreak of awesomeness (which I lovingly refer to as awesome sauce.)

The first thing you have to realize is "YOU"RE AWESOME!"  Yes you...not the person behind, but you are awesome.  The journey of many steps always starts with the first one.  So close your eyes and whisper to yourself, "I am awesome."  Do this a few times in a whisper and then start to increase the volume.  After ten minutes you should be saying out loud how you feel about yourself.  When you are having a rough day and things just to seem to not be going your way, just remember your mantra "I am awesome!" and this will make all those things slip away.

Have you ever wondered what made Captain James T. Kirk so awesome?  One simple word, Confidence.  Captain Kirk by far was one of the most awesome captains Starfleet ever saw and it comes from his sheer will to be awesome and excel at being so.  Your next step is to build up your confidence, and it is best to start small.  Think about something you do well, even if it is washing and waxing a car, making an awesome dinner or even just playing video games (Like a Boss).  As you think about that one task you do think about all the actions and what you are most confident doing without even thinking about the action.  If you are awesome in the kitchen making a dish that your significant other enjoys think about the one step you do without even thinking about doing.  How can you do this without thinking?  Because you are confident of the result you will get from the action.  In everyday life there are actions you complete without thinking about because you are confident that you can.  So now let's take this a step further...think about a task you are mediocre at accomplishing (even though you are never mediocre, YOU ARE AWESOME) and think about one action that you could do with your eyes closed.  Now take the entire task and put the same confidence in the entire project that you would to this one step.  With enough practice you will be able to accomplish everything with great amounts of confidence.

I do not condone being late (and I mean that) however, being awesome any entrance you make will be an awesome entrance.  Let's start with your posture, remember back straight, head up, long stride, and arms swinging at a slow but steady pace.  This gives the people of the room the knowledge that someone that is confident in them self (awesome) has just entered the room and things are going to become more awesome for the day.  One of the other things you can do when you enter the room is to whistle a little tune (personally I prefer "If I only had a brain" from the Wizard of Oz).  I have never seen one of my awesome idols enter a room with their head down and slumped over, because this is not how an awesome person walks.  So stand tall be confident and take your next step to being awesome.

Every day is not going to be awesome for you, some days are going to be a down right sluggish, sad and boring day.  The thing you have to remember is just because the day did not turn out like you would have liked, it DOES NOT make you any less awesome (TRUE STORY).  Barney Stinson said it best, "When I get sad I stop being sad and be awesome instead."  Being awesome is not an easy task and many people have failed at trying to be so.  So what is going to make you different?  Because YOU ARE AWESOME!!! 

If you can complete these simple steps, you will earn your Doctorate in Awesomeness (which by the way is Doctor Who approved).  The Doctor is the epic description of Awesome.  He has all of the traits listed above and uses them all to his advantage. The one thing about the Doctor is he is never afraid to tell people how truly awesome he is.  When you are at work and a co worker is having issues with their computer and they call you over to look at the demon beast PC, and after you are finished fixing the problem (even though it was only the ALT key that was stuck) and after they ask you how you did it, you just tell them it is because, "I AM AWESOME!"  If you are really confident enough you can even add "And because I wreak of AWESOME SAUCE!"Here is to you gentle reader in the hopes that you will be able to take these steps and become more confident in your every day life, and remember to JUST BE AWESOME!Just saying!