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Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readApr 10, 2021

One of my friends taught me a way that eliminated all my worries, complaints and fears right away. It is, to date, the best brain hack I have ever learned!

This hack is something that’s very simple to do and amazingly effective.

When we think about our problems, think about the worries, complaints and fears, we think of these gigantic monsters in our lives.

Sometimes these monsters show up randomly, other times they show up right when we everything is going horribly anyway, are very calculated and sneak in the back, or come at the moments where we let our guard down just a little bit.

And every time they do show up we just look up at them in fear…

WHAT IF YOU DO NOT MAKE IT?!?

WHAT IF YOU FAIL?!?

STOP BEFORE YOU MAKE A MISTAKE YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CORRECT!!!

These thoughts and many more come to us every day and all we can do is cower in the corner because these thoughts are big, scary and are thoughts that can’t be planned against.

That being said: Why are they so big?

Yes, they are incredibly scare, but does that alone make them big?

Thoughts feed on images and emotions. As we imagine more and feel more the thoughts grow into larger and larger spirals. When a thought overtakes us it controls our mind…

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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