I'm based in Bali but I was born in a pirate island in the Caribbean called Cuba.
I joined this community because Arthur forced me. π Nah, just kidding. I joined mainly because I love traveling, awareness about mental health and relenltess self-improvement saved my life and turned it into a dream come true and nowadays, in this age of internet and excessive virtual connection we are the loneliest we have ever been, the most atomized, and while other social media platforms only exacerbate this issue skool is the only one that fosters real deep connections and even allows us to take those connections out of the internet and into the real world.
The greatest lesson I have learned in my life so far is VERY hard to pinpoint because I have lived my life in pursuit for knowledge and understanding and I feel like I have learned so much. Still I know so little.
I'd say that one of the biggest lessons I have learned is that I am not my thoughts, I am not my feelings... I am the thing which can observe them and I can chose my reactions to them.
Between stimuli and response there's a gap, in such gap lies absolute freedom.
Understanding this and applying it into my life has been one of the greatest insights and most powerful advantages I have managed to integrate and to be honest... there's a lot to talk about this subject but I'll try to keep it short.
To develop this awareness, to expand your awareness... meditation has been by far the most powerful tool for me, combined also with gratitude journaling and deep journaling.
My favorite place in the world is by far Bali... no, wait sorry, more specific even: Canggu, Bali... no, wait, even better: Tribal, Canggu, Bali.
I have met my family in that place, and the memories I treasure are far more precious to me than gold itself.
I spent 4 years into a chronic depression and honestly I was thinking about killing myself. I thought the solution might be a relationship and I got the girl of my dreams, this beautiful redhair from Spain... guess what? Disney lied to me, broooo!!! The girl ain't the solution... even though we had a lovely 3 year relationship and everything... she didn't solve my bad mental health. I was still thinking about killing myself.
But the solution was right there for me.
I started watching Jordan Peterson's lectures... he was my entry point to self-improvement.
After a year of that I started watching Hamza.
I built my timetable with my 3 core self-improvement habits:
Working out for the body.
Reading for the mind.
And meditating for the spirit.
After only 2 weeks I was out of my 4 years long chronic depression that no amount of therapy, no pills, no psychiatrists or psychoanalists (those ones were expensive as fuck) could fix.
I wish I had known that before...
But everything is perfect exactly how it happens...
And I couldn't be more grateful for every single moment of my experience because it has lead me here.
I kept improving after that, became fist a self-improvement coach and then went on to transition into an online business consultant for self-improvement coaches.
Now I live in Bali, the island of Gods, I have been traveling the world at my pleasure.
I have built an amazing community, both online and IRL here in Bali.
I have found my family here...
But this is just the beginning...
The last picture makes me smile, it was a sprints, workout and meditation session at the beach with a group of my clients from my old self-improvement coaching program.