Finding more Strength and my Why

byAlex2020T

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3 years ago

The things that drove me

It has been circled over and over in my head during the first days in the year: What is my purpose in life.

There are so many topics and I have so much of interests in my life. I am constantly searching for new areas. New things are so important to conquer and to explore. Reading, Learning and digging into new fields and spending money for my hobbies were so important.

But what become very clear during the last days to me is the fact, that with all this searching and seeking for new things, the most important part is missing - value the part that has been reached already. Enjoying the status quo. Being thankful for having such a wonderful family and a beautiful home and focus on making each day a wonderful day to them.

I started to reflect on this in order to appreciate all what we have already achieved. I got awareness about the fact that what I have is only based on what we did achieve as a family together. The way during the last years was blessed with support of my beautiful wife and filled with fantastic moments with my lovely daughter and my wonderful son. I'm so thankful about all of this and as a matter of fact I was not able to see all of this as I was too much stressed to search for new things.

I always thought that working hard and making sure that all is safe and the bills are payed and we have a financial security is the most important thing. So, I was searching for more options to generate more income and getting on a second path to make myself independent from my actual job.

All of my action were based on the wish to secure the money stream and making sure that my family is safe and all is under control from this point of view. There was some kind of fear in myself that if I would lose the job there would be a big issue occurring as the bills can't be payed and we would lose our home and we need to change again to a place of living and need to restart again.

So, the main question was about money and I was more stressed to work my butt off to make sure this part of my life won't get into a failure. With this habit and behavior II was not present for my family or at least I was not getting any focus on the non-financial things. All was about work and all was about working long and hard.

if I'm honest with myself what was really missing was my presence to my love ones.

I thought a lot of this topic during the last weeks and started a to meditate. I start a journey to find the real "why" and "purpose" in my life.

Meditation to become awareness and mindfulness

Meditation was nothing I though about with so much focus before in my life and I thank Dan Harris and his team as they founded the Ten Percent program. With different sessions and meditation experts the program is available in one App. It was helping me to become aware about the really important things by spending some minutes each morning to meditate. After the session I take some time to thing about my WHY and getting awareness about the important things in my life. All s about attention and focus. And I experience for my self that this focus become real only if my inner self is in balance. Meditation is helping me.

Maybe it would be a help for you too?

There is no catch and it is also no affiliate topic but I thought is might be helpful for others, so I decided to write about this and share with you this program. Helping others is one part of my WHY.

Dan has created this year a free Challenge. It is already running but you can get in at any time. If this program helps you, you can stay if you like for a quite attractive fee per year with full access.

How To get access?

Just follow the following link to learn more about it www.tenpercent.com

Or go to the Apple APP Store and download the app and start your journey. Let me know what you thing about and if it was helping you too.

With meditation and focus on my WHY during a morning routine I found out what matters to me.

What matters to me?

my love and trust in my family
the opportunity to help others that need a helping hand or any kind of advice
the gift in life to being a good father and spending time with my kids is much more worth as any other thing in life
Listening and loving my wife is so much more of value than other things can bring to me in life
Thinking more about our environment rather than cost benefits and margin is so important. We have a responsibility to hand over a greener Mother Earth to our children

My special thanks goes to Kyle as with WA the second point is so much easier. The community and the platform is so great and so many people are here to find a new start and sharing their experiences.

Thank you all for reading these lines.

I wish you a successful year and I hope you will find your WHY, gain some positive vibes out of meditation and looking forward to being part of this Community and giving back some things in life.

Stay strong, stay healthy

Alexander