Yesterday I had the pleasure to watch Adam Mason on Snapchat (adaminspired). He recently changed careers to pursue his passion: photography. He was criticizing how people were only after the “What” (e.g. What are you doing for a living?) instead of asking why they do that for a living.

Also, he recommended to ask yourself every day after you woke “Why am I doing what I’m doing?” and observe what you answer carefully.

However, the “What” and “Why” should be based on your values you carry inside. Your values define your why and what creating a nice sequence. In short:

Values › Why › What

This idea is very charming since you hear a lot that you should “start with why” and then wonder what’s my why based upon. Values define your motives (your “why’s”). You have a fixed set of values or principles (yes, you will adjust them throughout your life) that you set for yourself because they define the scope of the field on which you want to play. The so many “Why’s” and “What’s” are simply a conclusion out of that.

The take-away from today: Values are the deepest core ingredients that define your existence, your being, your feelings, and they build the basis to conclude your motives (why) and actions (what). Without knowing your values, you’re basically aimless.

This was episode 29 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”.

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”.