Awesome ends with "me"

"Awesome ends with "me." This is so true!

This post is about how each of us can be awesome!

I have yet to meet a person who has not shown an awesome side of their personality to me. Everyone has awesomeness.

Yesterday, I was talking to a teenager guy at the gym about stretching. I was telling him that "tree pose" helps protect knees and ankles for football players by tightening little muscles around the joints. I showed him the pose. "Headstands are more impressive, but I think tree pose is the best pose in yoga."

And he asked me about why I learned how to do headstands, if I don't think they are a very beneficial exercise. I relayed the story about how one day I thought I might be able to do a headstand. It had popped into my mind in my sleep and had just stuck with me. Some of my friends were very doubtful that if I was already in my 40's and couldn't do one yet, I probably shouldn't try. "But I believed I could be a bigger person. I really believed I could do them."

I then explained how two smirky weightlifters watched me make numerous failed attempts and thought I was a loser. "It was important to learn to be myself and not care what they thought," I explained. "And then one day, at age 42, I could do headstands! I became bigger than I imagined. We are much more than we think we are."

I then told him that I did more than a hundred headstands, with many variations including asymmetrical ones. And they aren't really important to me anymore, because headstands weren't for the exercise, they were for me to know myself, to understand that I can become a bigger person than I imagine.

And he loved this story. Really loved it! He grinned. He knew just what I was saying. And he told me, "Thank you! You never know what you're going to learn!" And I realized that this was one of those awesome moments in my life. :D

*You* can be awesome. It starts with believing that you can become bigger than you currently imagine. You can have huge moments where you didn't realize *you* could be so fabulous and marvelous, and wonderful. On any given day, you can have meaning that matters.

Be in awe of yourself. You should say to yourself,

Awesome starts with "awe" and ends with "me."

Have an awesome week!

:-) Marion