The 3 A’s of Awesome! by Ibrahim Abdi

What could make your life better? There could be thousands of ideas to make yourself better, but what makes you stronger, a genius, and also gives you self confidence? To support my idea of persuading you how to put your life in a better place, I want to talk about the three A’s of awesome. These three words may change your life and give you more self-confidence. Keep in mind that you are a powerful person by having attitude, awareness, and authenticity.

Having a positive attitude lets you communicate with the other people surrounding you. At the same time, you become a more open-minded person. Consequently, you are more advanced socially. Becoming an open minded person is not easy, but I believe everyone in this universe has an attitude whether it is positive or negative. On the negative side you can only hurt yourself by having a bad attitude. On the contrary when we look at the positive side, you can change the whole world by having a positive attitude. You will get the power to captivate people and become a good example for the next generation behind you. To emphasize my notion, there is a wise quote that says “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” To express that more, an attitude is the most important part that links you to your society.

Being aware of yourself is an important strength that everybody needs to have. A crucial saying from an American humorist named James Thurber is, “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” The more aware you are, the more confidence you have. However, one question is how can someone develop more awareness? To become aware you need to be prepared all the time, and well organized. What I mean by well organized is, you need to avoid the things that can enervate you. In fact, it will emphasize your awareness. As a result, you will be aware of yourself and also your community.

People ask this question a lot, “What is the best way to become authentic?” Simply it is doing the ethical thing even if it means a loss of personal benefits for yourself. In other words, you will build the strength of your authenticity by making the right things and counter the wrong things.   Authenticity teaches you the true life. Telling the truth and being fair with all the people surrounding you is the main quality of authenticity. As we all know there were a lot of great leaders like Gandhi, Mandela, and so on, who were authentic and fair to their people. So we need to take them as an example. To become authentic, first we must do the right things, second we must tell the truth and finally realize that we are all equal.

In conclusion, these three words that I called the 3 A’s of awesome are very important to our life existence. Having a positive attitude, being aware of yourself, and also being authentic person tells that you have more self confidence than others. I believe that everybody has a special type of quality that can affect the world. Therefore, everybody could have a positive attitude, could be aware him/herself and also could have the authenticity to make the world a better place!