You Are Such A Freak

You are such a freak. Seriously you are. That job you do, that person you love, that food you like, the way you dress, that bizarre clothes you wear, those wacky movies that make you laugh, those political views you hold, the car you drive and the sports you like and even the ones you hate.

Freaky, veeeery freaky indeed.

I’m a freak too, but I do my best to fit in and hide my freakiness because I don’t want anybody to know that I’m not exactly the same as them. We all need to be the same, conformity is good and differences are downright scary.

I know some people may point out that differences are what make the world so interesting and an eclectic life is a fascinating life. That our differences are what really bind us together by allowing us to demonstrate tolerance, inclusivity, empathy, understanding and love to one another, irrespective of color, race, creed, sexual preference and nipple piercings.

Yeh right! How freaky weird are they? Holding those beliefs!!

I think we all know that people who are different and don’t fit in to the societal norm need to be laughed at, ostracized, marginalized, imprisoned and maybe if they are really scary, physically attacked. The last bit can be problematical, so wherever possible it is wise to encourage the Government to do it on your behalf. Let’s face it, they’re frightfully fearful of foreign freaks and often can’t wait to lend a helping hand.

Speaking of freaky, I’ll tell you who else are freaky, Pace and Kyeli, that’s who. What makes those freaks even freakier than this freak though is they flagrantly and frequently flaunt their freaky friendship! They even encourage freakiness and freaks to band together like what normal folks would do! Nuff said.

I got a very freaky e-mail a week or two ago offering a guest post from the aforementioned Pace. On first glance I thought noooo, I don’t think so. I have gone a bit red pen berserk lately and turned down four posts and this looked like it was going to be number five.

I e-mailed Pace back and said I couldn’t possibly run it without some serious editing and the removal of certain names, or rather my name. The women had the audacity to say I couldn’t do that. Nobody has ever told me that with a guest post before. Quite frankly, I didn’t know what to say.

If you put me in front of a mirror and said, “Go on then, tell yourself you love you” I really wouldn’t have a problem doing so. I have dozens of clients that would rather run naked through the Lion enclosure during feeding time at the local zoo with only a plump rabbit to cover their modesty, than do such a thing.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting I spend half my life loitering around in front of bathroom mirrors chatting myself up. It’s just that I’m pretty much ok with me.

That is, until I have to start telling other people about me. I’m not too bad on a one-to-one basis, but shouting from the rooftops “I am a brilliant Life Coach and my books are brilliant too” isn’t my style.

So the following guest post, (yes this is now officially the longest blog post intro in the history of the Internet), is completely unedited and unsolicited.

Oh, and one more thing. My absolutely stunningly brilliant book ‘Don’t Ask Stupid Questions – There Are No Stupid Questions’ can really be bought now. I had loads of PayPal problems and thanks very much to those of you that e-mailed me. It’s still $5.99 for EBook or Hardback and still a real bargain guv’nor. That brazen self-promotion was purely for therapeutic purposes.

If You Hire Tim Brownson, You Will Save The World.

No, really, bear with me here. I don’t have any ulterior motive for saying this. I’m not related to Tim. I’m not Tim’s affiliate; Idon’t get paid for bringing him new clients. Hell, I don’t even like the same movies as Tim. (Except for The Usual Suspects. That one was pretty rockin’.) Anyway, the reason I’m saying this is because I believe it’s true.

If you hire Tim Brownson, you will save the world.

Here’s how.

So, what’s wrong with the world? Crime, war, greed, poverty, and all sorts of other stuff, right? Who’s responsible for it?

Who’s responsible for crime? Criminals, right?

Who’s responsible for war? Politicians, right?

Who’s responsible for greed? Capitalists, right?

Who’s responsible for poverty? Well, depending on your side of the fence, it’s either politicians or the poor themselves.

Either way, the answer boils down to people. When you dig deep enough, it turns out that individual people are the source of the world’s problems.

But that’s not the whole answer. Because why do these people commit crimes, declare war, and do all manner of bad things? The responsibility is theirs, most definitely, but it doesn’t end there. The responsibility also falls on the environment that encouraged them to cause the badness. The ghetto that encourages crime. The politics that encourage war. The economics that encourage greed. The systems that lead people into poverty or fail to get them out of it. (I swear I’m coming back to the Tim Brownson save the world thing.)

But who creates and maintains the systems? Again, it comes back to people. Individual people.

If everyone in the world suddenly got their brain zapped by an awesomeness ray and instantly rose to their full mental and emotional potential, what do you think would happen to the world?

Those ghettoes would get cleaned up. Those politics and economics would get reformed. We’d help get people out of poverty, simply because we’re all in touch with our hearts and we know that helping others is the right thing to do.

There wouldn’t be any non-awesome people left, so there wouldn’t be anyone left to cause any of those problems. Sure, there will always be new problems, but if we’re all awesome, we’ll work together to solve them.

In the real world, there is no awesomeness ray, so you can’t run around zapping everyone with it. What you can do, though, is make yourself as awesome as possible.

Everything works inside-out. First start with yourself, then take it out into the world. First make yourself awesome, then make the world awesome. Lead by example; start an epidemic of awesomeness. That’s the best way to create real change in the world. In fact, it’s the only way.

Pace is the geekier half of the Pace and Kyeli team. They are leading a movement to change the world by forming a community of open-minded visionary alternative people. It’s called the Freak Revolution, and you can check our their website and their blog at the Freak Revolution now!

By the way, at this stage I must point out that I always welcome receiving guest offerings and love to run them. But there are a few guidelines such as I don’t tend to run list posts and I want stuff that I can’t or wouldn’t normally write, otherwise I may as well write it myself! Edgy and controversial will do nicely too

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20 Comments So Far.

Comment by Blogger Dad on 14 May 2009:

Great guest post! Even if Tim almost trumped you in length. Your idealism is wonderful and I agree that much CAN be done on a small scale, which can transform on the large scale. Unfortunately, there aren’t nearly enough awesome people to counter the ill effects of all the completely unawesome people in the world.

Of course, we can’t give up and let the unawesome people win.

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Comment by Vlad Dolezal on 14 May 2009:

Damn Tim, you got me all pumped up… and then I find out that the post itself is half the length of your intro :p

You really ARE such a freak ;)

Pace – maybe we should go ahead and build an awesomeness ray? I imagine it would look like the bat-signal, except we would point it at people, and instead of the silhouette of a bat it would show Tim’s face.

Vlad Dolezals last blog post..My Real-World “Yes Man” Experiment
Comment by Tracy on 14 May 2009:

I’ve nothing of substance to add other than I feel like running around the neighborhood letting my freak flag fly.

I ditto Vlad’s call for an awesomenes ray, in fact I’m already clearly picturing our workshop built into a mountainside in a remote location. You know Cobra Commander’s place? Kind of like that. Or the Phoenix Foundation. In any case, I am 100% behind this idea.

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Comment by Writer Dad on 14 May 2009:

Blogger Dad: Almost? I think he did.

Tim: That was so funny, I thought I was winding down and it hadn’t even started!

Pace: I really really want an awesomeness ray.

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Comment by chas on 14 May 2009:

Let’s see, everybody in the world hires Tim. Time steps up to the plate and offers to work with 20 people a week. Everyone else goes on the waiting list. That’s 1000 folks a year. Assuming we need 51 % Awesomeness to create a tipping point that’ll take Tim what? 3 million years? Hmmm…We need more Tims!

How many people can Freak Revolution carry?

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Comment by chris zydel on 14 May 2009:

An awesomeness ray! Now that is the coolest thing I’ve heard of in recent memory!!
And of course it would take the coolness of the two of you to think it up.

And I am so grateful that you are starting up your freak community to save the world. Somebody has got to do it and it might as well be us!

Thanks for an AWESOME post!!

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Comment by Pace on 14 May 2009:

@BloggerDad: Thanks! (: You can only imagine how much arm-twisting I had to do. (:

@Vlad & Tracy & Writer Dad: Here’s an awesomeness ray for you! http://freakrevolution.com/images/tim-brownson-bat-signal.jpg

@chas: I think it’ll take far less than 51% awesomeness to create a tipping point, because awesome people spread awesomeness simply by interacting with others. If Tim’s waiting list gets that long, and people are forced to hire another life coach who, dare I say, maybe even approaches Tim in terms of awesomeness (I only know of one, personally) then we have scalable, viral awesomeness. And I’ll say awesomeness a couple more times just to make it a little more ridiculous-sounding. Awesomeness. Awesomeness.

@chris: Woot! Glad you liked it! (:

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Comment by Tim Brownson on 14 May 2009:

@ Blogger Dad – I think awesome people are on the rise, seriously I do. And awesomeness is about to take over the world. I think it happens next Tuesday, but I’m not completely sure about that.

@ Vlad – don’t call me a freak you freak. It’s not me that’s missing some vowels from his name. Say no more!

@ Tracy – You are way too normal to have a freak flag. The real freaks are those petitioning the PTA to ban Winnie the Pooh in case Piglet has have swine flu.

@ Writer Dad – I hear that all the time.

@ Chas – Haven’t you heard of the Law of Attraction?

@ Chris – What? You mean to say you haven’t got an awesomeness ray? Wow!
Comment by Pace on 14 May 2009:

@chas Oh, and I forgot to reply to your second question. The Freak Revolution can carry as many people as want in, because it’s a community and it’s meta. The community helps because people can help and support each other; things don’t have to get blocked on me and Kyeli. And the meta aspect helps because we’re not touting our own services (or heck, even our own philosophy) as the One True Way, so people can spread out, diversify, do their own things, and come together at the Freak Revolution for support, sharing, and making their own thing part of something bigger.

But enough about the Freak Revolution, let’s talk about slow lorises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdQ3UhLoD4

Paces last blog post..Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 18: Coming to terms
Comment by Vlad Dolezal on 14 May 2009:

@Tracy:

Awesome! I’ll get the awesomeness ray, you get the remote mountain base, let’s meet at midnight February 30th. (It’s going to be full moon. That’s why I picked the date. Honestly.)

Nothing can stop us now…

Vlad Dolezals last blog post..My Real-World “Yes Man” Experiment
Comment by Ali Hale on 14 May 2009:

Great post (like others, I love the awesomeness ray!) It ties in with a lot of stuff I’ve been thinking about — and trying to do — recently, starting on trying to slowly become more and more the Ali I’m capable of being (and less the Ali of bad habits, messed-up ideas and a quacking duck — readers of DASQTANSQ will know what I mean…)

I wish we could all “wake up”, slough off the crap, and become the awesome folks (and wonderfully unique people) that we all have the potential to be. That’s the sort of world I want to live in, and I hope, that’s the sort of world I can help other folks work towards.
Comment by Vered – MomGrind on 14 May 2009:

I watched the news yesterday (big mistake, I know). A guy violently raped two women, proceeded to rob another person, then – when the police stopped him for running a red light – he shot and killed 2 police officers.

I told Ido that this just proves some people are evil and nothing can change that. I don’t care how bad his childhood was. Many people go through terrible abuse as kids and do not turn out psychopathic murderous maniacs.

Do you really think intervention – life coaching, psychological treatment, etc. would have made a difference for such a person? (I’m using the term “person” loosely here.)
Comment by Laurie on 15 May 2009:

I’ve been a freak all my life. It’s all I know to be. I think I am on my way to being an awesome freak. Maybe when I grow up I can be as awesome a freak as you Tim!
Comment by JJ Jalopy on 16 May 2009:

Awesome!

You’re such a freak. Freak.

Haha!! Your intro was twice as long as the post itself. Thankfully both intro and guest post rocked like crazy. This is good because I get to write nice things about both of you. Everyone likes that…

Say Hi to the dude in the bathroom mirror from me. Tell him I think he’s a fantastic writer and, seemingly, a great coach too.

Rockin’…

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Comment by Mikael on 18 May 2009:

First off, I love your blog! I just found it through Seeinggood’s blogroll.

I think if everyone is awesome it would make the world a boring place. There always has to be the equal opposite to make the force stronger. Who knows though, maybe one day the awesomeness ray will actually work! – chicago office
Comment by Vlad Dolezal on 18 May 2009:

@Pace:

Ahh, I just saw your Tim Brownson awesomeness ray! What can I say… it’s absolutely awesome :D

Vlad Dolezals last blog post..How to Be Remarkable
Comment by low voltage wiring on 18 May 2009:

First off, awesome blog! I found it through Seeinggood’s blogroll.

An awesomeness ray would be amazing, but I think we need that opposite force to make it even stronger!

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Comment by Pace on 18 May 2009:

@Vlad: You’re just saying that because you’ve been zapped by it! *grin*

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Comment by Tim Brownson on 19 May 2009:

@ Ali – Just by doing that to yourself by rights you help others. I’m almost tempted to say be the change and all that ;-)

@ Vered – You know what I’m going to say ;-) It doesn’t ‘prove’ anything other than what you want it to prove.

Check out this guest post at Urban Monk http://snipurl.com/icliu for more than.

@ Laurie – Oh stop it, you’re your only special brand of awesomeness uniqueness!

@ J J Jalopy – Thanks and welcome!

@ Mikael and @ Low voltage wiring – You both have the exact same first line. Coincidence?
Comment by Sand castings on 31 May 2009:

I’ve nothing of substance to add other than I feel like running around the neighborhood letting my freak flag fly.

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