What To Do When You Feel Like You Are Going Nowhere In Life

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readOct 8, 2020

For the time being forget about everything around you.

Forget about your goals, about your ambitions, about meaning, value, power, desire, and just let it all drop.

Humor me. Take a deep breath. Let it go for just a minute.

Now I want you to look at your life and accept what’s going on for only that.

  1. You do not feel like your life is going anywhere — This doesn’t mean it is going nowhere, but you do feel like it isn’t.
  2. You are in your late 20′s — This is a standalone fact. It doesn’t say anything about what’s possible or no longer possible.
  3. You do not know what to do — At this very moment, you are lost. You do not know what to do right now, which does not mean you never will.

Looking at these facts we can already totally get rid of #2. It has no value and brings no restrictions with it.

It doesn’t matter one way or another.

Facts #1 and #3 can be combined, as both of those can be solved by 1 thing: Figuring things out.

In essence, this means all your worries come from you not knowing what to do.

Which isn’t all that much.

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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"