bq.life #ThriveWithJoy #WaveState

"What is bq.life? Why are you doing this now?" are questions I want to have an answer for to share with my family, friends and network. This post is my first attempt to give an answer to my LinkedIn family, I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

With all the uncertainty and fear that we have in the world today it is understandable that people "hunker down" to become #StormProof in order to protect themselves, their loved ones and their businesses.

As I've been going through some massive changes in my life in the past years and was faced with fear, confusion and overwhelm myself, experiencing #GrowingPains with the challenges that life gave me, I asked myself the question "Isn't there a better way?".

Does growth has to feel painful or can we master the change in our lives with #GrowingPleasures ? Because let's face it, there will always be "a next big storm coming", we thought Covid was the big-one, now we have a global recession in front of us, and there are the myriad of smaller and bigger changes that we're facing in our life daily.

"Isn't there a way to #ThriveWithJoy ?" became my leading question and set me on an explorative adventure that I'm enjoying more and more each day.

Being a German engineer with a highly trained analytical mind, always looking for "What is missing? What can be done better?!" I had to turn that question towards myself "What am I missing? What can I do better? What is my very capable #AnalyticalMind not able to figure out?".

But how to uncover, what I don't see? How to figure out the unknown, unknowns?

Luckily I remembered what my team at the 宝马 innovationswerk had created as a process to "See what's Hidden in Plain Sight", uncovering future user needs and create delightful innovations via #ContextImmersion & #GetInspiredByExtremes ! Thank you Astrid Thomaser Thomas Wagner Gregor Gimmy Knut Mayser Peter Sparakowski Stefan Kaindl

Living in Southern California I had the opportunity to "jump into the deep end" in-person, learning about wholistic healing with scientifically engineered sounds from Dr. Jeffrey Thomson , who was featured in the Heal Documentary . It was so eye opening what Jeff taught me about our autonomic nervous system and how this master control is orchestrating everything that we're experiencing. Arguably we humans are the most complex being on this planet with the highest capable brain, but when it comes to our experience of life we are not very complicated, either our Sympathetic Nervous System is active, because we identify a challenge in front of us as a threat, putting our system in a "fight-or-flight" response or not.

Interestingly the margin that we judge something as a threat is quite low, only about 4% over our current capabilities. Everything that challenges us more pulls us out of the so called #FlowChannel and puts us into an anxiety response, which sets us up to snap sooner or later. As Steven Kotler and Vishen Lakhiani discuss in this post "The 4% rule to get in flow ".

We generally call this #Stress !

The subsequent immersion in various online and live trainings with peak performance strategists Tony Robbins , Steven Kotler , neuroscientist Dr. Joe Dispenza , Dawson Church , energy healers Donna Eden , Jeffrey Allen , Richard Gordon all the way to modern mystics Sadhguru , Neale Donald Walsch , Matias de Stefano and numerous podcasts in addition to coaching and therapy sessions, reinforced the underlying pattern that we are either in a #CreatorState "I'm riding the Waves of Life" or in a #VictimState "The Waves of Life are riding / crushing me".

With bq.life I set out to build a platform to share with likeminded individuals who also desire to #ThriveWithJoy in their lives what we find "That Works".

In addition bq develops a humane Artificial Intelligence #humAIn , the bq.wave, that guides the user through a 4-Step process to unlock "1% Growth per Day" so you are ready to ride the big waves of your life when they show up at the horizon. Living Life in the #WaveState Being Future Proof and ready to Go out and Play. Because the next Big Storm is always coming. :-)

I love to read in the comments what you found "works for you". Cheers, Sebastian