Flawesome Award
It’s time to celebrate the flaws that make you awesome.
How many times do we see an award that celebrates all things bright and shiny and sunny in a person? How often do we forget that our weaknesses can be a strength? Our flaws make us human, our flaws tell us more about who we are, and in turn we turn those flaws into awesome strengths. In short, our flaws make us #flawesome.
After nearly a decade of Tyra Banks telling me to celebrate my flaws, I decided to create an award that celebrates our own flaws.
Rules:
- Link back to the creator – Sophia Ismaa Writes
- Display the award
- List 3 flaws and turn it into a strength
- Tag 10 other people
3 Ways I Am Flawesome:
- I have a terrible attention span, but I excel in a crisis. I cried the other day because it took me two hours to read one chapter. I read numbers wrong/backwards sometimes. Detailed passages make my vision blurry at times. I had to zone back into lectures every 10-30 seconds. I used to leave the classroom in primary and secondary school when I was bored and it got so bad in secondary school that my Form Tutor had to install CCTV in his lab. But do you know who is amazing in a crisis? Who doesn’t flinch but smiles for the Thorpe Park cameras on rollercoasters? Who is an excellent leader? Me! Because when I am interested and when I am put under pressure, both physically and mentally, I thrive. I see clearly. I direct well. Give me something I am genuinely interested in, and all attention is on deck.
- I am blunt, but you can count on me to not tip-toe around the truth. Are you being a jerk? I will tell you. You’re sulking over someone who was never worth your time? I will tell you. Acting entitled? I will tell you. Your fave is problematic and you can’t see it? I will tell you. A social norm is stupid? I will tell you. I am not afraid to tell the truth. There is no bullshit on my premises. I know this can make people awkward and uncomfortable to be around me, but I’m confidently awkward. Because avoiding truths will not help you and I understand that it’s uncomfortable to hear but in the long-run, truth means acknowledging the problem and how can you solve the problem if you can’t acknowledge that there is a problem? Heart of a Gryffindor, mind of a Ravenclaw and the spirit of a Slytherin… and Hufflepuff sisters to ground me.
- I have too many different interests, but I’m hardly ever bored. Curiosity woke up the cat and gave it 78 open google tabs but it sure made life all the more interesting. I like to write, blog, illustrate, dance, act, read, climb, do obstacle courses, or anything adrenaline-related, I like to gossip, have philosophical discussions, research psychology, business, marketing, strategy, astrology, MBTI. I like to play games: monopoly, charades, twister, card games… TBH, any games! And I especially love pranks. I am not afraid embrace life in its entirety. And while it might be exhausting for my family when I tell them I have an idea, they know that variety is the spice of life and life will have a triple dosage of spice around me.
You’re nominated:
Bookish Wisps | Ayundahuwana’s Blog | not-so-modern girl | Isabella Hume | Musings by Shayne | lifesfinewhine | Crystal Girl | Dont Give a Jam | Cade Under Books | Le Curious Mug | Muted Mouthful | Shelfish for Books | Fiction No Chaser | A Fresh Outlook | Of All the Books in All the Libraries | A Redhead’s Rambling | A Qoder’s Blog | Hammock of Books | littlemisssunshine | TheWebWeavers
To all the bloggers I’ve nominated before, I love you but you & I both know that you don’t do awards… like ever. Again, no pressure to do the award and if you do, you can take your time. If you haven’t been nominated but want to do this, go right ahead and do it because I think we should all engage in self-love (and make sure to follow the rules I’ve set!).
Sophski out.
Connect with me:
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Sofearless 
Thank you for the nomination 😊
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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Ah, this is such a lovely idea for an award- we should all celebrate or flaws for sure! I will do this post as soon as I can, looks like a great one 🙂 thank you so much for the tag
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No worries, hope you enjoy it. 🙂
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This is an awesome idea for an award!
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Thank you. 🙂
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I love this! Thank you for creating this and thank for thinking of me. It truly is an asset to be able to turn perceived flaws into gems.
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Thank you, and no worries. It is very important to… and especially to do it for your own self.
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I can definitely relate to that attention span. It happens to me every time in class. The lessons are very interesting to the point that I can always think of something else related to that topic and it just continues and continues, and I just keep thinking and thinking. When I zoned back, class has already ended. Great. 😒
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In any case, at least, clearly, your mind has been stimulated so you know you enjoy the subject. That’s a plus, take note. 😉 For me, if I’m stimulated, I’m very overly focused but that happens rarely in the classroom lol.
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Congratulations! 🙂
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Loooove this tag! It’s so personal and I love how you get to reflect on your flaws that make you who you are ❤ Thank you for nominating me, I will try my best to do it as soon as possible 🙂
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Yes, flaws make you who you are! Thank you for that. 🙂 and no worries, if you wish to do it, take your time, there’s no rush. In any case, I hope you enjoy it!
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Thank you for nominating me 🙂 !
I loved your post btw and I can compleatly relate to the terrible attention spam and the too many interests! 🙂
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Well we both relate to Chandler and Phoebe so we will be quite similar. 😆
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Fair point! 🙂
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What a good idea!
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Thank you. 🙂
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Congratulations and thank you so much for the nomination!!!
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Ooh wonderful idea! Thanks for the nomination. But.. um.. I have no flaws! I am perfection. Lmao. Hm… Maybe my humor is a flaw? 😉
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Lol, don’t Hermione it, girl. 😉 and thanks. 🙂
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Bahahaha that’s what I was going for! Ha! I knew you’d get it! 😉
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This is such a lovely idea ❤
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Thank you. 🙂❤️
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You know I’ve noticed a lot with people I worked with over the years the ones who never seemed to be paying attention or always off in dreamland were without fail the best in an emergency. Cool new award!
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Very apt observation. It takes an emergency for our senses to be alert. We are the Percy Jacksons of life. 😂 Thank you! 🙂
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This is a brilliant idea for an award!
I agree it’s your flaws that make who you are. Believe me, I really have the sunshine blogger award post in my drafts! 😛 😅
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Thank you! 🤗
Pahaha, it might stay in the drafts for a long while and that’s alright, you do what you want to do, it’s your blog after all!
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No, it won’t! I’m just looking for some really interesting questions to put in the post! 🙂
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If you’re thinking of tagging book bloggers, it might be fun to book specific questions 🙂
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Wow! This is such a cool idea. Thanks for nominating me. I cannot wait to do this award.
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Yay, thanks! Looking forward to your answers.
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