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My Story & My Dream: A Personal Story To Inspire

Lukas Schwekendiek
5 min readSep 2, 2023

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Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis on Unsplash

Life has beaten me down; I have been lost, broke and suicidal.

I have experienced heart-wrenching heartaches, have had nowhere to go and no money to my name, and have had a moment where the best, and only, way forward seemed to be to cut my life off short.

I have not had it as bad as a lot of people, especially when you objectively look at all I had even in those beaten down moments, but it was a subjective nightmare.

In those moments I felt so abandoned, utterly alone, and in so much pain that I do not wish that upon anyone.

Yet they were always turning points for me.

After that much pain something had to change, and the more my life changed the more I realized what I wanted.

Over the years since then I learned a lot about Self-Improvement, Psychology and myself, and the biggest thing I realized is that the pain I felt then was because I kept holding back who I was.

Instead of accepting me and living life like the ride it was I pretended, acted and tried so hard to be someone I wasn’t.

Everything I tried to be was another shackle on my life; another weight that I had to carry on the journey to happiness.

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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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