11 Tips To Stop Screwing Up And To Start Succeeding

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readDec 2, 2021
  1. Change The Self-Talk — Through things like Confirmation Bias and Self-fulfilling Prophecies it is much more likely that whatever we tell ourselves we will keep around. If we think we are not worthy of a good life our mind will try to support that belief; be it true or not.
  2. Start With Habits — 3 Things at 5 Minutes a day is enough to get life back on track. The amount of time is not important, nor is it important what you do in that time but that you spend the time on something. It is the action itself that is important for it builds the core of all habits.
  3. Reflect Every Day — What went well? What did not? Why or why not? Analyze your life to the point where you know what works for you, what makes you happy, fulfilled, productive and all those things that do not. You have experienced enough to know yourself, you just haven’t paid attention.
  4. Go Outside — Ideally you have a purpose to exit your home each and every day. Something that gets you doing things, be it the gym, friends, hobbies or something else.
  5. Find Better People — Re-evaluate the people you spend your time with. How many of them push you to be better? How many of them are where you want to be? And how many of them just drag you down? Ruthlessly cut the people that do not increase the quality of your life and spend your time finding those that do.
  6. Stop Trying So Hard — As counter-intuitive as this may sound, the truth is that if you are just yourself and do what you know you should you will succeed in all walks of life. You just have to stop trying so hard to be someone you’re not. Do what you need to do, stop trying so hard to convince yourself or to make excuses and just do it.
  7. Get Help — If you cannot help yourself then find someone that can. For at the end of your life what matters is not how much help you needed to get to success, but that you got there at all. If you get everything you wanted, would that not be worth using every tool you can get your hands on?
  8. Take Care Of Yourself — Drink more water, eat more fruits and vegetables, be nicer to yourself and others, exercise regularly, break a sweat and get fresh air. You’d be surprised at how much of a difference each of these things makes.

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Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"