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Luis Daniel Vargas Gutiérrez
Lifebook Online

Before doing the challenge my life was frustrating because no matter how many articles or books I read or videos or a…

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After a decade of searching for transformation, Luis discovered a holistic approach to life through LIFEBOOK. The program helped them move from frustration to living with purpose, integrating 11 life categories and creating a vision for thriving beyond 50.

Translated from Spanish by AI. Luis wrote this story in Spanish.

Before doing the challenge my life was frustrating because no matter how many articles or books I read or videos or audios I watched to improve my life, I wasn't moving forward, because it's not about doing three or four activities to improve my life, as I believed "exercise, earn more money, be better with my wife, my son and my parents". After doing the Challenge, I feel that my life is improving now with my LIFEBOOK book, I experience emotions in many of the activities I do, because I have reasons that motivate me, I have purposes that define my goals and strategies to achieve them, but the most important thing and what makes me vibrate towards a true transformation is the integral vision of life, made up of the 11 categories of life. I have ended my search of more than 10 years to transform my life and I have found the way and the style to grow and be a better person with myself, with my family, from the spiritual, intellectual, emotional and love life. In conclusion I feel that I am LIVING again and preparing myself to live with a better quality of life from 50 years old onwards. The reason I signed up for this challenge was because I wasn't satisfied with the life I had, I wanted to grow, but I didn't know why, during my last 10 years of life, I sought to go beyond the philosophy of life my parents gave me: study, have a job, a family and wait until you retire from work. Thank God I listened to them and studied: I finished an engineering degree and two master's degrees, I have a job: as a director at a university five minutes from my house and a family: A beautiful wife and an 18-year-old son. But when I reached 40, I started with the urge to grow, I don't want to be static and just wait for retirement, retirement for what, to wait for death!! It's hard to look ahead in your life, when you realize that the philosophy of life they showed you is a few years from being achieved, and that you have no more ideas for seeing the world, it's overwhelming because you think you should only enjoy your family and what you do at work because soon you'll be waiting to die. After 5 years of searching I went from an overwhelming life to a frustrating life because I wanted to generate wealth, thinking I could access better options for growing old, however in business I failed again and again. Then the need to grow spiritually arose in me and in the last 5 years I searched and searched for practices, methods, techniques that would help me, until I found Mindvalley and the LIFEBOOK course. I signed up because I hoped to achieve spiritual growth and with it feel like a fulfilled man. LIFEBOOK hooked me immediately because it was different from everything I had seen or heard, I perceived it with an integral conception of the human being, with the 12 categories of life, no more seeing them independently or in segments. A course that offered me a visualization of life and the possibility of it being achieved. The reasons why I recommend this challenge are: Each week is experiential in the category you develop, because it's not about looking for the answer in a book or a teacher. It was me each week and from the first category who experienced from the heart the premises, the vision, the purpose and the strategies, sharing with my wife, son and with myself the categories of intellectual life, spiritual life and emotional life. Each week you bring to your mind many images to represent the category, in my case first it was me my image, then how I interacted in the PVPE and finally how I achieved the transformation. 4. The areas of my life in which I have noticed the biggest changes in my life are: In physical condition because it's not just about exercising, maybe it does have an impact but the results are very slow and that's why I've gone to a doctor to heal my fatty liver, lower the triglycerides in my blood, a diet for being overweight by more than 20 kilograms and stability in controlling diabetes; in spirituality the benefit is in the actions to achieve my freedom from deep trust and gratitude to achieve my lifestyle and vision of life; in character the main contribution is in discipline and in honoring my word.


Luis Daniel Vargas Gutiérrez

Director de Desarrollo y Fortalecimiento Académico

Nicolás Romero, Mexico

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Written 24 August 2020 From our original stories site Translated from Spanish by Mindvalley

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