Arriving in Cusco was long-awaited since Lima was not a big success for me... now in Cusco, it got even more difficult. It's freaking cold here at night, like -4 degrees! No heating no hot water. That means sleeping with a t-shirt 2 hoodies, pants, and socks and still waking up because you are cold. On top of that during the day the house doesn’t get any sun so it doesn’t heat up.

Then working as a digital nomad is great but not if you don’t have internet and a noisy street right there. 

Then in moments of frustration I just want to be home again in my warm house, have a hot shower, a warm meal, and a hug. 

But well I chose this lifestyle of the unknown and ever-changing environment to grow so I gotta deal with it and learn from it. 

Sounds a lot easier than it is. But it is a great challenge to take responsibility for my life. 

Here you see the way I phrased it. “A great challenge”, not a problem. This is huge. 

That’s that mindset that I try to keep. I have challenges all around me. 

So what to do in this one though. The best to start with is to

First off… 

Complain, rant, and be annoyed. At best with someone in a similar situation. In my case, my girlfriend happily ranted with me. It felt great to let it all out! I can’t just always switch to think positive it’s all gonna be alright mode. 

Next:

I knew I needed to get better short-term and fix the most urgent thing. Only a few can think really good when they feel like shit. For me, it was definitely getting warm. So I went and bought a hot-water bottle. I can already say that was the best purchase of the year!!! The next night was already way better. 

Then, when I had some headspace like right now being in bed with the hot water bottle on my feet and 3 sweaters on, I can think, maybe even meditate about it. Let’s tackle them one by one. 

And the good part while creating this I haven’t solved everything yet. But there is progress. I only shower during the day when I can get out in the sun to warm up again and use the hairdryer to get warm quickly again. I bought some more data for my phone for the unreliable wifi and keep focused on the tasks that I like doing, that give me energy. 

Like Podcasting, chatting on my Telegram channel, and spending time outside with my girlfriend. 

And for everyone going through a tough time right now, this might be helpful. So I’m taking all the positive out of this and really honestly see it as something that makes me stronger in the end. 

Hope this helps, and maybe gave you a new perspective on things. 

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This topic has been in my mind for soooo long. It feels like a big part of my life I just wanted to have self-esteem. So I could look cool and finally get all the validation I wanted.

It seemed like the holy grail. Although some people have it naturally and some people will never have it. You know this cool guy who is just comfortable in any situation has the cool phrases and funny comments. But when he wants also the depth. The control over what the group does. He just knows, feels great about himself, and doesn’t even need the approval of others. I was not one of those obviously.

But this is what it looked like from the outside when I was younger.

Damn it. For me, it just felt something unattainable. But this perspective shifted when I learned a bit more about psychology.

What I didn’t realize was that it was completely on me. What does that mean? I have control over how I think about myself. Self-esteem, in my eyes (my personal view!), is that it depends on the way you tell the story about yourself. If you take apart the word self-esteem into SELF and ESTEEM you can easily identify that is the Value/Opinion (esteem) that you attribute to yourself (self). 🤯

That means that I, as a storytelling animal, have a story in my head that tells me very strongly that I have or don’t have this self-worth/esteem.

Because the more and more I was observing people (not in a creepy way) I saw guys just like me being a lot more confident than I was without any obvious reasons… So that made me think. What’s the difference between me and another guy that has self-esteem. Maybe a better way to describe it now is a guy who believes he has self-esteem. It’s just a state of being, an aura, or an energy around him.

Well, and you guessed it. It’s the belief, that story about yourself.

To go a bit deeper. Now it’s more like a feeling, a feeling like any other. One that comes and goes. Sometimes I feel happy, sad, frustrated, lonely, angry, and sometimes I feel I have more self-esteem and sometimes less. But my story around self-esteem changed. So I feel better and better about myself. Day by day.

This is my current view. What’s the story you are telling about yourself?

Let me know!

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