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We can not choose who we are, but we can choose who we want to be. I guess this says it all already. Living in the 21st century means only one thing, living the hell out of our life, every day! Never ever in history was the awareness of living this high. We hear it all the time. Work life balance. A vacation here, a short city trip there, a new car, a fancy kitchen machine, a bicycle made out of carbon, you got the idea. But choosing a certain lifestyle is an important thing to do. It defines who we will become.

Reading a book about Shaolin culture these days helps to understand what is going on. Not that I would prefer living the simplest of lives somewhere in the middle of nowhere, but it does help to take some steps back and changing the perspective. Do we really need all of that stuff? And is that really helping us to get going in life?

Look at your current lifestyle. What can you change? What should you change? What do you like about your life so far? Giving things a different value doesn’t make the obsolete, it shows us what is really important for us. And this might just be the car, the house, the trip, or whatever. There is nothing wrong about getting these things, the key is to be happy for them too.

See you next time!