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Are you still cackling?! - Chicken clucking

The text encourages breaking free from fear and self-doubt, questioning societal norms, and embracing one's unique purpose and potential. It emphasizes living authentically, pursuing dreams, and transcending limitations like children do.

Are you still cackling?! - Chicken clucking

How often do we hear a "I can't!" - which actually means "I don't dare - because I'm afraid of making mistakes! - and what if I try and fail - and the classic - what will my neighbors think!?" We all know this chicken chatter.

WHO CARES?!

Who are we actually living for? Always nodding along and never standing out - because then we can't fall? What if we fall - FAILURE! Oh, NO! FEAR OF FAILURE?! Timid?! Why have we become so "grown-up" that we don't even dare to play like children anymore. Never has a toddler fallen down and decided: "Well, that hurt - walking is not for me - Mom, Dad please carry me for the rest of my life?!" So why do we do it in our adult lives!? Ah, security?! Frantically searching for grains and pecking! Maybe we'll find a worm while scratching around daily - the promotion! Should the first raindrops fall, then we run shelter-seeking and panicky clucking with everyone else into the coop!

What lies beyond the storm?

But there are some who suddenly stop in the rain and look up at the sky and wonder what might lie beyond the storm!? Something inside us screams louder than the daily chicken chatter around us!
  • Is money, a house, a Mercedes or BMW really everything?
  • Why is it so lonely up there at the top of the pecking order?
  • We have everything now that we were told we should have to be happy?!
Survival of the fittest?! Really? But if we are all unique and our purpose is incomparable... is it really important who has the highest "crap position" in the chicken coop?

What am I actually doing here?

Do we actually understand who we really are and what lies within us?
  • What is vision actually?
  • How is my purpose linked to my potential and what is my purpose actually?
  • What does potential have to do with discipline?

We make a living, but we never live life!

Are we living our lives or is our life being lived? What dreams and visions have we actually adopted from others and pour all our talents, strength, and time into fulfilling these external visions -- just to later completely exhausted, recharge for it on the annual vacation!?

Burn Out or Burn Loud?

Never has a child suffered a "burnout" while playing and had to go on a weeks-long spa treatment at the North Sea. Children may sometimes collapse in the middle of playing and then sleep peacefully, but as soon as they wake up, they are immediately back with full joy and strength! Like young eagles, they soar over all the impossible and dream of solutions in their world full of joy and fun!

Wake up and smell the coffee! - Wake up and live!

No one will ever wake us up so that we can live our dreams! When will we finally start using our eagle beak and break out of the chicken coop of fear, self-doubt, and supposed security? Only when we leave the chicken chatter behind, will we finally recognize the true span of our eagle wings!

Can't do it - can't do it! No way - no way!

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