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The Single Greatest Insight That Changed My Entire Life

Lukas Schwekendiek
5 min readAug 7, 2024

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The rain was pouring down ferociously outside. I was sitting in my Apartment at the time in utter sorrow and disbelief that I could ever become this unhappy.

It was the single worst moment of my life.

At that point in time I thought there was absolutely no one in my life and that there was absolutely nothing that I had done with my life. It felt like I had wasted my entire life away.

After hours of crying and a near panic attack I knew that I could not keep going this way.

I had to end this feeling somehow.

I went over to the kitchen, and grabbed the sharpest knife I had…

As I stood there I thought about whether or not I should actually be doing this. But… as I saw it I only had two options. Going through with it, or changing my entire life completely around… I just had absolutely no idea how to do that.

It took me a good ten minutes before I dropped the knife. I couldn’t muster up the courage to do it.

The only other option left for me was to change my life. And I had no idea how.

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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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