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My #1 Golden Rule— A Rule Learned The Hard Way

Lukas Schwekendiek
4 min readMar 27, 2021

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When I was at the end of my rope all I wanted to do was to give up.

Nothing seemed to work for me, I was all alone and had nothing to my name. Over 20 years I had worked as hard as I possibly could only to have nothing to show for it… I did not even have a friend by my side.

My entire life had seemed like a gigantic waste.

At that time in my life I was so depressed I wasn’t far off of suicide, holding a knife in my hand at one point ready to end my life.

Somehow, I made it through, and all I knew after this was that I had to change my life.

So I began to read and improve myself.

I listened to hundreds of hours of content, read dozens of books, got a coach and tried everything I could not to go back to that dark time in my life.

And through that grind something blossomed: A purpose.

When I had nothing left to lose I thought, for the first time in my life, about what it was that I really wanted to do in my life.

I had been studying Psychology and got fed up with the fact that we only learned theories about things that didn’t matter anymore and never got any real practical advice for helping people.

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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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