Being fucking awesome, quite literally, means to elicit awe.
The other day, I was sitting in a cafe — by myself, laptop in front of me — feeling anything but awesome. I felt envious of the people around me who seemed so über-cool, and relaxed, wearing the trendiest neo-hippy rags, and seemingly without any (self-imposed) deadlines hanging over their heads.
I observed myself, with my still-wet-from-the-shower imperfect hair, cut-off shorts, and tired look on my face — clearly feeling a little bit not-in-awe of myself at all.
I was feeling generally not fit enough, not rich enough, not smart enough, not quick enough, not fresh, new, hot or “original” enough. We have all felt like that, from time to time.
Until I remembered that, unlike most people, I am living my dream: being creative, helping people and traveling, plus running a soulfully and financially rewarding business to boot, from the tiny office that is comprised of just my laptop and a few notebooks, from any place with decent internet, that I can find.
And that’s pretty fucking awesome. Even if it does occasionally mean messy hair, tired eyes and deadlines looming.
The thing is, being awesome is simply about making a decision to be your best self, and recognising that your best self truly is awesome. There are a lot of ways to be awesome: being awesome is being redefined each and every day. It’s all about seeing our own self-worth and building on what we already are and have.
And once we make that decision, we have to fuel that powerful new belief of awesomeness, with interests, talents, creative pursuits and eccentric ventures that say “Yep, everything I do is fucking awesome”!
Behold:
50 Ways to be the most fucking awesome version of yourself.
1. Become the kind of woman you have always wanted to be: 10 Ways To Connect With Your Divine Feminine.
2. Feel empowered when handling people’s negative emotions, especially is they are feeling really angry: 4 lessons on dealing with angry friends.
3. Embark on the mystical-yet-scientific task of reading your own palm, to get to know yourself even better. The Gypset Guide to Hand Reading. And then try it out on your friends!
4. Let go of any fears and hesitations to cutting your hair short — sometimes a haircut is exactly what you need — to release the past: My Insomniac Haircut: Le Trés Chic Blunt Lob. And then flaunt it publicly and tell a dramatic story about how it all happened.
5. Learn how to manifest anything you want into your world. Manifesting 101 Gypset Style: How To Write Notes To The Universe. Take my 7 Day Free Manifesting Course to learn how to do it more, and better.
6. Stop punishing yourself and your body with endless diets, strict exercise routines and hate, hate, hate. We all know they don’t work! Eat What Ever The Fuck Your Body Wants Whenever It Wants, + 5 Other Diets Explained. Instead, start embracing who you are right now, love that, see your awesomeness, and nurture yourself from there. If you are meant to lose weight and get fitter, your body will naturally teach you how to do that.
7. Speaking of loving yourself here are 88 ways to love yourself. When you start doing that, you start feeling awesome, no matter what!
8. Manifest a tonne of money out of thin air, in less that 24 hours! Here’s how: How to Instantly Make Over $1,000 Gypset Style.
9. Stop taking responsibility for other people’s emotions, problems, weaknesses and lessons. It’s a form of self-sabotage, and will keep you from being the most awesome version of yourself. Are You Carrying Other’s Karma? {What You’re Responsible For + What NOT}
10. Learn about the always-vibrating and powerful energy centres of your body. They are talking to you, teaching you and want to help you be the most awesome version of yourself, always: The Gypset Guide to Understanding Your Chakras.
11. Make really delicious snacks for yourself, that are healthy. Being organised in the kitchen, and creating amazing, delicious masterpieces that everyone can eat is fucking awesome! Here’s an idea: Honey Almond Choc Chip Cookies {Paleo & Gluten Free!}.
12. Imagine you were Queen of the entire world, and everything you said goes. Your world is milk and honey, people adore you, and you have the power to have an immeasurable, positive impact on the world. What would that look like? This is what it would look like to me: if I was Queen of the World I would…..
13. Write down all the most incredible, amazing, impactful lessons you have already learned so far. You will be amazed at just how awesome you are. I wrote some of mine down on my 30th birthday: 31 magical life facts I have learnt so far.
14. Decide that every single day of your life can be filled with magic! Something that I adore, is using the natural energy of the planets, the moon and the stars to help me be more awesome every single day. Here’s how: Make More Magic. 7 Days A Week.
15. We all know the masturbating is healthy, natural, and a great way to practice self-love. But what about masturbating your ego? 99 Ways To Play With Yourself: How To Be Confident, Charming, & Flirt With Anyone
16. Build your self-confidence and insight into the fallible nature of human beings who are still healing. It is so important to stand in our truth while also practicing compassion and understanding. I learnt a lot about that, which I shared in: The Man Who Asked Me To Be His Baby-Mama. A True Story On Love, Spirit + Connection.
17. Get to know your monthly cycles, and how they are connected to the monthly cycles of our moon. When we know ourselves so deeply, it is easy to always be awesome, and making really good decisions for ourselves. Here’s how: The Gypset Guide to Women’s Moon Cycles: menstrual problems + hormone imbalances.
18. Love yourself so much, that loving someone else becomes easy. When we love ourselves fully first, giving and receiving love to another becomes easy. But many of us are still so full of wounding and hurt, that we create painful situations for ourselves and others that simply encourage old patterns of behaviour that don’t truly support us, or what we want to experience anymore. Why the ones we want run and the ones we don’t cling.
19. Speaking of love, here’s something else about love that you should know: The Gypset Guide To Romantic Love. (Because Love Is Free). Because it will make you fucking awesome.
20. And what is a romantic relationship without speaking about lady-parts. You need this in your life: 2 Things you should put in your lady-parts. (So things you don’t want to come out, don’t.)
21. Sometimes, when you are trying to find out way, and are feeling really impatient that you haven’t figured it all out just yet, you start to feel way less than awesome. In fact, you might feel totally un-awesome. This might help: 8 Insights On How To Find Your Path (I.e. After college/university, a breakup, or being made redundant.)
22. Negativity is, well… negativity. It really brings the vibe down. And if you’re one of those people who is usually totally, enthusiastically, awesomely positive, then hanging around (and loving) people who aren’t positive, can be really fucking annoying and challenging. What to do if your partner (or best friend, or sister) is a whinge-pants.
23. Your parents and grandparents are (definitely) stopping you from having the life that you want (and deserve). This is not about blaming. It’s about recognising the truth, and then doing something about it. Because that’s what makes you the most fucking awesome person ever! Being empowered, and taking charge of your life.
24. Watch films that inspire you: 33 + Three Quarter Fantastic Films That Will Ignite Your Fantasy. Then, you can awesome conversations about all the amazing things you thought, realised and learnt — plus share a thing or two that’s totally new with your friends!
25. Something that has become abundantly clear to me recently, is the fact that most of us have no fucking clue how to truly receive what we want and what we are given. And then we idle around, moaning how life isn’t giving us what we asked for. (That’s a total lie, it totally is, you just aren’t receiving it!) The Gypset Guide To Getting What You Want: 5 Keys To Learning To Receive.
26. Sometimes we just have to say “fuck it” to everything. And that’s awesome too. When My Van Broke Down Last Week, I Entered the ‘Fuck It’ Phase
27. There is a beautiful balance in everything we do. Often we might think that life is so very one-sided, and to be truly awesome, you have to embrace only one side of the coin. Especially if you are, or aspire to be, a creative entrepreneur. Here’s one explain where that’s simply not true: Creativity and Routine ::: a Note for Entrepreneurs.
28. The other day, I had a really horrible conflict with a friend. We both were terribly upset about how we mis-communicated, and I was sorry that things had gotten so out of hand. Not awesome! Want folks to forgive you / let go / make up with you now? Write a love letter…
29. Sometimes, we hold negative patterns and bad habits, deep within our subconscious, that are really fucking with our flow. This will help: The 4 Step Gypset Guide To Self Hypnosis.
30. Whenever I feel like I have some pretty big life questions that I want answered, I refer to my tarot cards for help. If you’re new to doing this, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered: The Gypset Guide to Reading Your Tarot Cards. Even When You Don’t Have A Question.
31. If I can do it, you can do it! Work from a remote, developing country, creating, writing and making awesome shit: The Gypset Guide To Working From India.
32. I’ve always been supersensitive to energies and other people’s weird juju. This is awesome, but what’s even more awesome, is if you can find ways to manage them, clear them and protect yourself from them. Here’s how: 5 Favourite rituals to create sacred spaces between one moment and the next.
33. 30+ Mantras To Inspire Your Freedom. For People Who Feel Stuck + Are Terrified of the Future. Because freedom is awesome.
34. Speaking of mantras, did you know that being organised releases incredibly fucking awesome feelings of pleasure in the brain? It’s true! Read it here: 20 Mantras for disorganised people, who really, really want to get organised.
35. In the first year of my business, I ran the whole thing off of my iPad, while travelling through Central and North America. It just shows that things can be easier and more accessible than you think. all you have to do is get started. 22 iPad Apps That Run My Life + Business.
36. In believe that the secret to true, unequivocal awesomeness, is knowing how to follow your own heart. There are a million voices out there, all telling you how to be, how to show up, how to love, what successful looks like and trying to define awesome for you, but it’s all b.s. Your heart knows the only truth that is for you. How To Follow Your Heart. In 8 Awesome Ways.
37. It goes without saying, that the way your heart speaks to you, is through your intuition. Not sure how to do it? Here’s how I do it: how to listen to the whispers of your intuition.
38. Your work does not need to be useful. It just needs to be done.
39. Generosity is the purest form of love, serving and helping others. The more you give, the more you also receive. Giving without expecting anything in return is where it’s at. And so today, I’d love to give you this: Download my ‘What’s for you won’t pass you by.’ manifesto. A gift from me to you.
40. Learning is always awesome. The more we learn, more empowered we are, the more choices we have, and — mostly — the happier we are. So I bring you this: 8 Ridiculously awesome + useful books + resources you will love.
41. Our parents are our absolute greatest teachers. 6 Transformative things I have learnt about life from my mother.
42. You know, how you know when someone is the most awesome version of themselves? They don’t follow other people’s rules. They do exactly what feels right to them, and when. Which is why I wrote this: Why You Shouldn’t Have A Morning Routine. That doesn’t mean that finding routines and rituals that work for you is a bad thing. The key here is: doing things that work for you. Not trying to fit yourself into a system that someone else has prescribed.
43. I’m Stuck + Scared To Take The Steps Towards My Dreams. Acknowledgement is always the first step. Then comes acceptance. Then come action. And then, of course, comes awesome! (Come on, you knew that was coming!)
44. I am a huge believer in taking care yourself and discovering what natural remedies can cure you. That’s a form of absolute awesomeness in my books. Like this: My miraculous cure-all-tummy-pains Aloe Elixir. And this: Don’t read this if you’re scared to know your body + its responses.
45. Being judgemental is like saying “No! I don’t accept life in every form that is transpires in!”. It’s really negative, and saying no to life is… well, saying no to life. We want to say and emphatic YES to life, while also being discerning about what we choose to experience and have. So, you think you want to stop being judgemental? 6 pieces of advice.
46. Realising our life purpose and potential is fucking awesome. Figuring how what to do, and how to get started, can be challenging. This might help: I want to help people. + Travel. + I don’t know how to start.
47. Sometimes, we have been living in one place for a really long time. And we feel like it might be time to go on adventures and have new experiences. But when we have invested so much tome, love and energy into one place, letting go and leaving is haaaaaard! Yet, nonetheless — that feeling — it just won’t go away! So what do you do? The Gypset Guide to Knowing When It’s Time To Go.
48. Travel is fucking awesome: Travel is like a truth serum. It is the best cure for being self-centred and close-minded.
49. From time to time, as we evolve and change, we have to reconsider our friends and whether they are truly still our friends, or if we have, just maybe, grown too far apart. Being discerning with whom you spend your time with, is important, because studies have shown that you are most like the 5 people you spend the most time with. Knowing that, do you want to be like the 5 people you spend the most time with? If not, then this will help: How to end destructive relationships without ruining anyone’s life. (Or your own.)
50. And finally, something that makes everyone’s life more awesome: 3 ways to have waaaay more freedom, without giving it all up.
Enjoy!
xo
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