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What Are You Most Passionate About In Life?

Lukas Schwekendiek
4 min readDec 1, 2021

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When I originally thought about what I was most passionate about, the answer that came to my mind was: Success.

I thought that I was passionate about success in any field, or rather, an overarching passion for success in all of life.

However, come to think about it, that is not truly what I am passionate about at the core.

When I think about success I realize that it is not success as much as it is the freedom that that success brings.

What I am most passionate about in life is living free.

Disclaimer: I do not mean political freedom or physical freedom, but mental freedom.

There is a brilliant TED talk by Sean Stephenson called The Prison of the Mind. If you have not watched it yet I highly recommend you check it out.

In this talk Sean Stephenson mentions that the one thing holding most people back is their mind more than their physical or emotional limitations.

Having worked with hundreds of people I can only say that I agree.

Almost every one of my clients could have succeeded far sooner and far further had they only gotten out of their own head.

Most of the time we hold ourselves back because of certain paradigms, stigmas, stereotypes or

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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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