How to Keep Your Bearings in a Fast-Moving World
The world around us is moving incredibly fast. Technologies change, trends shift, environments evolve, and people come and go. In this constant flow, it's easy to lose yourself — to lose confidence and your inner compass.
This is a topic I often share as a guideline with my teammates and friends — something I come back to in conversations about growth, focus, and staying grounded.
So what helps us stay confident, motivated, and keep our life direction?
It's not about perfect planning or brilliant ideas about the future. First and foremost, it's about feeling yourself — your roots and your life energy.
A Few Words About Life Energy
What is life energy?
It's what gives us the ability to build the future, to think, to create, and to feel inspired to move toward our goals every day.
I want to share my five methods for where I get this energy from.
1. Places of Power
For me, these are:
- Mountains
- Forests
- Hiking trips
- Powerlifting
- Winter sports
- Parents' home. A home filled with warmth, loved ones, calmness, and familiar details.
2. Rituals
This isn't about magical rituals, but about daily or weekend habits that ground you.
I'll give an example from my sports life.
Before competitions, there are always many thoughts in my head. Often, you find yourself fighting internally:
That's why I try to start competition day in a way that mirrors a regular training day as much as possible:
3. Seeing the Future
This method is about visualization.
About the ability to imagine the path to your goal — and the goal itself — clearly and vividly, as if it's already happening.
In this way, we experience future events in the present.
For many people, it is difficult to imagine something that doesn't yet exist. But it's a skill you can train.
Start simple:
Imagine yourself — that's the easiest part.
Add objects around you.
Imagine the weather.
Imagine the emotions you're feeling.
4. Totems
Remember the imagined objects from the previous point?
What if they already exist in reality — right next to us?
They can be:
- Smells
- Sounds
- Symbols
- Meaningful objects
5. Journal
And this is not the notebook where we wrote secrets in our youth.
This is a daily 1–2 minute self-reflection ritual.
A few honest questions before sleep:
This practice helps to:
Final Thought
In a fast-moving world, your orientation point is not a calendar and not a roadmap.
It is:
These are the things that give us the energy to move forward — every single day.
