After reading some general information about me it’s time to look inside my engine and get some more personal topics covered.
The fuel of my engine is hunger, happiness & gratitude. I’ve always been a happy person, but in different ways. What do I mean by different ways?
Now, I want to put myself out there and try my best to bring more positivity into the world. Before that, I was inside of me, figuring out myself, my personality, me as a person… just working on myself. I was thinking about this for a long time. It took some time for me because I evolved from a rather shy person into a confident person. I than found my inner drive. Sadly, I didn’t document the years of my “personality transformation´´ which maybe could have helped somebody around the world.
The next years will surely be documented as the real game is just starting. I changed to a different person who makes it possible. It wasn’t always like this, but I for example now care more about the opinion I have of myself than all others combined and this condition is a key aspect for being happy and doing what you want to do.
Where’s the seed of my inner drive & happiness?
At home, I always felt loved & it turned on my heart forever. I grew up with two different kind of parents. My dad, who’s from Germany, was more the logical type of person, and my mum, who’s from Chile, the emotional one. I’m the person I am today because of them. Both installed different perspectives in me for which I’m so grateful for. However, it wasn’t always easy. At times, I liked one perspective more than the other one and vice versa. But when you keep looking for the positive aspects, you start developing your right mix and most importantly: Empathy & EQ.
And Empathy & EQ will surely set the tone of my future life in connection with my inner drive.
In general, I would describe my childhood like:
One giving me self esteem which would be my wings for my engine & the other one giving me the tactics for a safe flight.
You may be wondering why I chose an airplane… The reason is that my whole life I’ve needed to take an airplane to meet my foreign family, which means the world to me, and friends. Airplanes are a symbol of joy, freedom and happiness for me. Seeing my family once per year was always special and showed me the strength of love. My grand farther is a true life inspiration form.
Being around my family and friends always has made me happy. A smile means a lot to me and it’s my goal for whenever I meet a person. In some situations the only way to get it, is to rebalance the weights of 1st taking life seriously & 2nd making life a good joke. I’ve often heard that I jump between the two extremes, using the balance fast without breaking it (I hope you understand what I mean haha).
After only being a seed, Chris also needs to grow right?
Yes, and the biggest step where I grew as a person was moving out of home with 17 years. It was the starting point of my professional career but it most importantly was the whistle to create me & my dream life. I than started to focus more on my inner growth. Because if you want to make other people happy, you need to make yourself happy 100%.
Until I was 18 I rarely read books. But after moving out, I read and consumed content which switched more buttons in my engine on. I started to like the feeling of stepping outside of my comfort zone and developed myself as a leader. I no longer wanted to be a happy follower (which is also great for others!), I wanted to be a happy leader who wanted more than average.
My confidence, my goals and my drive started to grow and brought momentum in my life. I started to realise of what I was capable to do and how I changed since I left my home. It felt amazing but I knew that it couldn’t be my final version. I needed to step up & care more about my own opinion about myself than the one of others. Always being around your family and friends can make it harder to fully concentrate on yourself.
That’s why I took the decision to study one year abroad in China. A completely different student life than in other countries and more time for myself. And it even surpassed my expectations. I realised what I have inside of me and stopped caring so much about other people’s opinions and standards. I totally took the steering wheel in my own hands, not letting others getting the hands into my engine & started my journey.
My journey of building a legacy. Building something that I will be remembered for. Even if it’s only for being a good person, I want to fill the stands for my funeral, the moment my engine will turn off. Everyone’s engine will turn off, but it’s all about using it correctly to take the road through happiness and not hell.
Everybody’s journey is different and I will share mine to hopefully make your journey better! That’s reason is vague, right?
So let’s now better take a look on some deeper reasons for why I started to document my journey & truth.