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Get To Know Yourself: Why You Still Don’t Understand Yourself Or Know Who You Are

Lukas Schwekendiek
6 min readNov 2, 2021

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“Why can’t I just do it? What is wrong with me?”

“I should be better than this. This is easy but I am just lazy.”

“If I really wanted this then I would do it. Everyone is telling me I should. I want to but I can’t.”

Sound familiar?

If this is, or ever was, your internal dialogue you probably think that you don’t really understand yourself.

You know all the things you are supposed to do, understand why they are important and even how to do them… but you don’t.

Why is that?

Well, let me ask you this: Why is there a should on the things you want to do?

Who tells you that these are things that must happen, that should happen and that you should feel bad about if you do not do them?

Why do you beat yourself up so much?

These are the things you want to do. Why does it sound more like these are chores then?

The truth is that there is nothing in life you should do. The world doesn’t need you to be happy and neither does anyone living on it.

Sure, you can add a whole lot of amazing things that no one has ever received before, but you are…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

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

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