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My “Inspirational” Story

Lukas Schwekendiek
6 min readOct 3, 2021

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In my life I went from being a pretty shy, but smart kid, to almost committing suicide.

I felt I had nothing then, but did turn it around to be a Life coach for hundreds of people, having been published by TIME, The Huffington Post, Apple News and many more.

Over 75 Million people have read my content thus far, showing what you can do with just a bit of effort.

This is my story, but let’s start it from the beginning…

I used to be a very shy and reserved kid in school.

Even though I did not realize it at the time I was bullied in school and faked being sick on multiple occasions just to get out.

My grades were average and I was incredibly lazy, and while I made friends quickly, none of them were good friends.

In 2006 I moved to the US with my family which changed a few things.

As I did not know anyone nor could speak English all that well the only thing for me to do was learn and pay attention in class or be bored out of my mind alternatively.

Things went pretty smoothly over there, I got good grades and made friends relatively quickly, but the learning stuck.

As I grew older I needed to figure out what I wanted to do, to which my dad gave me the advice: “Either you suffer

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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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