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Why I’m Happy Today

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readJun 14, 2024

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Be your own hero. Live Free. Lead a Life worth living.

Those are the 3 motivational sayings I love the most.

They have guided my life for a long time and are something I constantly repeat to myself (I even have one of them tattooed on my back).

Over the years they have become more and more important and have left a bigger and bigger impact on me.

They are the reason I became a coach, and the reason I stand here today, for they served as an anchor during the truly difficult times in my life.

Yet, while I do have these as guidelines, they are still not ever-present things that I always remember.

It would be more accurate to say that I want my entire life to be guided by these 3 sayings, but that that is more difficult than it seems and not always a given.

And even when I have times in my life where I do apply all of them, I still do not always feel like I am my own hero, like I am free or lead a life I would lead over and over again.

I just do not always believe it.

-Time: My 30th Birthday. Enter my two brothers.-

My brothers never gave me spectacular or creative gifts. Usually it was just a gift card, which I was totally okay with.

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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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