I am repeatedly asked what
FEEL = Find - Experience - Eliminate - Let go
means.
It is no coincidence that the method bears the name FEEL because feeling is the basis of this concept, which I also describe as the Circle of Life (which is endless) or life path.
I recognized the pattern on which FEEL is based around the turn of the millennium and developed it into a concept for action when I stopped being a manager and became an entrepreneur. I have consciously practiced it every day since then and have been passing it on to other people for around 15 years.
I didn't realize the pattern when I first asked myself why I wanted to become an entrepreneur. I looked for the pattern behind my actions up to that point and realized that I had - unconsciously - followed a life cycle that was always the same. I found the blueprint of my private and professional life.
Until this realization, I had always unconsciously led my life according to the FEEL method. From the decision to only go to school on the side and prefer to work at my last job as a managing director, from my first car purchase to buying my first house (without a penny of equity, which was still possible in 1987), from the decision to build relationships to the decision to end relationships.
Always.
The North Star, or my life's purpose, is freedom and independence, so I now live in the USA and have left Germany behind. People who love and need freedom and autonomy are susceptible to limits and restrictions. In this respect, I have sought, questioned, and mostly not accepted limits for as long as I can remember. My motto has always been: there's no such thing as impossible.
I realized that I have been looking for limits my whole life—limits that restrict me, hurt me, and are unfair. I realized that I constantly FIND limits. This is not difficult if you go through life consciously and attentively. Unfortunately, many people don't do this and then complain about the hamster wheel they are on.
A limit is reasonable if you are unaware of it or do not know that it affects you in any way. Limits per se are neither positive nor negative; they are just as important or unimportant as a curb itself or a roof tile. All things in life become essential or unimportant through the meaning you give them.
So, looking back, I realized that I only perceived the limits in my life as such because I attached meaning to them. This allowed me to EXPERIENCE the limits in my life.
The experience of a limit can be positive, negative, or neutral. Experiencing a limit and getting to know it makes evaluating it in the first place possible. Evaluating the limit is the basis for deciding how you will and want to deal with this limit.
Looking back, I realized that I - unconsciously - only ever crossed the critical limits for my personal development. I let school slide at 14 - against my parents' staunch opposition - and worked all night. That was important for me. Apart from that, I didn't argue much with my parents and accepted their way of thinking within their limits - it didn't harm me. The arc stretched to my last job as managing director, where I was confronted with corruption and fraud on a considerable scale. This was unacceptable to me, so I had to act to maintain my integrity.
The experience of limits enabled me to eliminate these limits and ELIMINATE them from my life. LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS allows you to eliminate limits. The act of eliminating ends the effect of the limit; it eliminates the limit and removes it from life.
Regarding the examples, my parents didn’t want me to go to work and neglect school; they forbade it. I ignored the ban because I had to go my way in life; I crossed the line. The company where I last worked had a culture based on dishonesty and cheating. I crossed the line of that company culture by standing by my values and eradicating that culture, even if I got fired for it myself.
Looking back, however, I also realized that eliminating the limit had never been the final step when I had successfully crossed limits. There were also limits in my life that I had crossed repeatedly.
Why?
I realized that I had only really crossed a limit when I left it behind me when I let it go. LET GO is the final point in the FEEL method. There is no looking back, overthinking, or "what if...".
A life lived is a life lived; it cannot be repeated.
Letting go is what makes the FEEL method possible in the first place. Because once you have found and crossed your first limit, you will find the next one. And the next one. And another one. That's why I also call the FEEL method the path of life or the endless circle of life. Crossing limits to LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS never stops. It is an attitude that makes you permanently free and independent.
Since then, I have lived my whole life using the FEEL method. From divorce to emigration, from starting a business to ending a business, I have spent my whole life finding my limits, experiencing them, getting to know them, evaluating them, eliminating them, and letting them go.
Soon after discovering the FEEL method, I realized that this concept of action is universal and can help anyone. I realized that FEEL can be perfectly integrated with the laws of life and ultimately represents a concrete implementation of these laws.
That's why I began passing on this knowledge 15 years ago and systematizing its dissemination. The beauty of FEEL is that anyone who gets involved can learn it. Over the past 15 years, I have developed a reliable toolset that enables anyone and everyone to bring FEEL into their lives.
Over the past 15 years, I have been able to pass on FEEL to managers and investors in countless coaching and training sessions and have experienced the eureka moment with these people time and again. I have learned that most people need help finding the beginning and end of the method. For some people, the F often takes a long time to see, and many people find the L much more difficult at the beginning than they are willing or able to admit.
But ultimately, I always hear:
It works!
I am free!
I am independent!
I feel like I've been reborn!
Sounds good? It is good!
If you also want to set out on the path to LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS - alone, as a couple, or with your employees - then write to me at klaus@grenzenlos-leben.com.
We'll be sure to find your way.
I promise!
A human who LIVEs WITHOUT LIMITS can walk over any rainbow.
And then, you will understand the mantra of LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS:
The best is yet to come!
After talking all the time over limits - what are limits?
Klaus!