It’s not very popular among people in society to deliberately decide which channels you want to be contacted on or to say “No” to an appointment or any other social event. “You must be very anti-social doing that. Everyone else is coming!”, they may say.

They keyword here is “everyone”.

Everyone are the people who do things because everyone else is doing them as well. They copy within their own circles, it’s almost incest on a socio-cultural level. If you do what everyone else is doing, how can you possibly find YOUR way, YOUR passion, YOUR uniqueness. You are and will be just like them.

When they are winners, you’ll be a winner. When they’re losers, you’ll be a loser. When they’re average, you’ll be average. When you want to be unique, you go solo or surround yourself with so many groups of heterogeneous people that you don’t belong to either this or that group. You’re in between chairs but have access to many points of view. Powerful.

The take-away from today: Uncovering your true uniqueness is the greatest gift. It releases enormous energy and makes you a proud human person. Be aware to have an objective that you use in your life if you want to keep existing. If this self-discovery process means to avoid some people, that’s ok. If it means to overcome fears, that’s ok. In the end, it will be beneficial for you and the ones who receive what you radiate.

This was episode 28 of the #weekdaykickoff 🌊. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.

Hi, I’m talking to myself in case you didn’t notice. I was thinking about my default state of being. The core that defines me without context. You could say: Everything happens in context. Yes, but still. Just very metaphysically, what is your core, what is my core?

I found out that without having an objective or target in the back of my head making me move I’m selfish and lazy. And now I wonder a) who would also say (admit) that and b) should I start worrying?

You’re selfish because the only important thing is you when you are aimless. You’re in the center of your own attention.

You’re lazy because doing things for yourself bores you. If there’s nobody to share with, there’s nothing to care about, except your own existence but what’s the value of my existence anyway?

So, when the caring vanishes because you need at least two to care, then you become lazy and the caring turns into vanity, or zero. Caring = Zero. Or: var caring = 0.

All that is left then is your selfishness, you caring about your self, being in the center of self-attention. And since you only care when you share this caring also vanishes.

This means in conclusion that your caring for yourself vanishes. Your selfishness vanishes, becomes zero. Turns into vanity. Selfishness = Zero. Or. var selfishness= 0.

That’s then your core that got missing. And without core, no other elements, like with atoms. You need a core. And I just lost it, metaphysically of course. Or not?

The take-away from today: Always have a target in life. If not, you’ll lose your core. With no core, no existence. You have no target, you’ll stop existing. Target is the essence of life. Target to live!

This was episode 27 of the #weekdaykickoff 🌊. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.

In your everyday life you take position. Even by not being actively pursuing something, you represent your standpoint. If you don’t vote in the elections, you vote anyway. If you don’t take responsibility for the car accident you just had you, you take position.

Every moment is under your control if you take it. But what if you really don’t want to do it? What if doing nothing, retreating or even only doing the normal thing everyone else is doing, is your thing?

You don’t want to be special, so you go with the main stream and peek out every now and then because you’re still curious if some other people who take massively more action than you did another extraordinary thing, which you are jealous of, but do nothing about because special is something others are, not me, why would I want that?

Everybody should be in his place where he/she belongs, living an ordinary life and pursue basically nothing grand, nothing wildly extraordinary. Keep your life in a rail you can maintain, the mono-rail. If the rail breaks, you can’t continue because you didn’t look for alternatives, but that’s ok for you.

You’re average. Nothing really excites you because if it did you would stand out, and that would be very embarrassing. Imagine all the people looking at you and you getting red in the face, shy and mute. How would that feel? Yes, it would feel as if you could be more than Average Joe. But that’s not you. That’s not your goal. You’re “No Joe”, not “Yes Joe”. Everything that could be possible, is not possible because you think so. Everything that others are doing is a miracle, and you always wonder how that could’ve worked. “They must have had a lot of money to do that”, is your basic conviction.

Well, maybe they had, but consider looking at where they started. You could be surprised.

Everybody wants to rule the world? Nope, not everyone, and especially not you because then you would be remarkable, and this would be… ehm… actually pretty cool, but remember you’re “No Joe” with your “Average Joe” friends. You wouldn’t do that, would you?

The take away from today: In a highly ironic tone I made you aware of your probably normal existence. Nothing too fancy, exciting or adventurous happens in your life. “Average” is your first name and your average parents gave you just another ordinary last name as well. If you can identify with that, you’re either happy with your life because you enjoy what everybody else has been doing, you’re in an indifferent state of not knowing where your place really is (here’s the solution) or you’re bored of your existence which makes you long for your first big adventure in life! You don’t have to rule the world, but playing an integral part in making the world better, smarter, richer and funnier, that sounds appealing, doesn’t it?

This was episode 26 of the #weekdaykickoff 🌊. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.