Best Practices

#### What is it to feel alive? 
While the word living simply describes the state of an animal or human that is at life, being alive is tapping into your full potential, following your own truth. It means purposefully tapping into the beauty of life, allowing yourself to leave the mediocre behind. To be alive is an active choice driven through actions and dedication. It means to listen and understand yourself before making choices. It means to give up the parts that don't add value to your life to make space for the things that truly do. It means instead of accepting that life happens to you, moving into the proactive self - the driver seat of your life. A seat in which you dedicate every action towards making your life flourish. 

Many of us have given up the idea of being able to influence the way their life unfolds. Have given up caring about every choice they make. As humans, we are able to steer our self and with it our life into any possible scenario. The only thing necessary is that we allow our self to imagine and believe in our own truth. When we choose to be alive, we allow our self the responsibility to steer our own life into any possible direction we want. When we choose to be alive, we choose to create the perfect ground for our character to unfold, our heart to love and our body to remain healthy every day. When we choose to be alive, we choose to follow our own story. Not the stories society tells us. Not the stories of advertisement or other people's believes. When we choose to be alive, we create a story of space. A space full of joy. A space in which we can truly meet the world, the people around us and our self with love. When we begin to choose to be alive, we accept our previous life will feel gray and mundane compared to what we start to live now.

Becoming alive is much richer than being at life. It means to see and live the beauty of life, every day.

Many are making their choices based on quickmotion. Reactions steered through emotions, fears, expectations. They see an opportunity. They react to take it as fast as they can. They take everything they can get. They think: the more, the better. A takers mindset.

Western values place a lot of relevance on opportunities. For many people, opportunities are almost seen as equals to freedom. They are not. In fact opportunities are the opposite of freedom. Having too many holds us back from what really matters to us. 

#### A menu with too many choices
Did you ever sit in a restaurant, looking at a menu with too many choices? When reading the menu almost takes 5 Minutes, how should you decide if you want to take number 116. or 95. ? And which of the 11 curries are possibly the best? And are you wondering as well, how the cook of the restaurant should even maintain a good quality for those 242 dishes?

In these moments, it becomes very clear to us, that a set of more options does not guarantee us a better experience. What is broadly known as decision fatigue is what we can immediately spot in every-day-decisions. Decision fatigue takes time. It takes energy. It takes away quality of life.

In greater decisions in life, however we tend to overlook this knowledge of "too much" entirely. In the biggest decision one can make in life, even you would overlook this. Don't believe me? Let's play it through together with an example...

### Choosing the right home
Let us imagine your very rich uncle Gustav in 3rd degree dies today. In his testament he wrote, that every person in his community of heirs will receive a house of their choice.

Do you have a choice in your mind? Good.

Now you continue reading through the testament. It says:

> "The house of choice must not be sold, rented or monetized in any way. You may keep the house for as long as you live in it, however as soon as you move out, you will give it to charity. While you live in it, you must keep that house in an excellent shape and cover all costs and efforts related."