You have it all.And still, something is missing.
A way back to yourself without breaking the life you’ve built.
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Almost nobody says it out loud
- An ordinary Monday, in the car with the engine off, outside the building of the job they chased for half a lifetime. Nothing stops them going up. And they don’t.
- An October night, on the sofa, after getting everyone’s next day sorted. They switch on the TV without looking at what’s on, and a question arrives: and where am I in all this?
- Six years from retirement, mortgage paid off, staring at the ceiling in the small hours. Doing the sums, and they aren’t about money.
None of them is carrying a tragedy, and maybe that’s why none of them asks for help. What they have is a silent crack between the life they lead and the person leading it.
If you saw yourself in any of the three, what you feel is legitimate, even if from the outside it looks like you lack nothing. It has an explanation, and there is a way out.
A morning in Querétaro
About ten years ago I was living in Mexico with my family, posted abroad for work. One morning, just out of bed, I was looking out of the window at the low houses of Querétaro pressed against the new buildings, and I felt an unease I couldn’t place. Not sadness, not anxiety, just a background discomfort, like when something doesn’t fit and you don’t yet know what it is.
For years I had been working out how to meet my obligations better. That morning I understood that the real question was why I had turned my whole life into an obligation. I also know what it is to spend two years knowing a job is no longer yours, with the diagnosis crystal clear in your head and your life unchanged.
I’m not a psychologist or a coach. I speak to you from the other side of the table, as someone who achieved almost everything he set out to do and felt the numbers didn’t add up. IKIGAIER was born from that search.
Read my storyYou’re not missing anything.
You have too much noise.
One path in three books
Each one opens part of the way back. You can read them in order or start with the one that calls you most today. For now, in Spanish.
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An honest inventory of your ikigai doesn’t tell you what to do with your life. It explores both sides of ikigai: what you do and build, and how you live it. It gives you back what holds you, what deserves attention and an exercise from El Ikigai que no te contaron for your week.
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A month getting
to know your ikigai
If you want to go beyond the snapshot: one email a week for four weeks, from the day you join, with an exercise from El Ikigai que no te contaron. It starts with the test and ends by repeating it, to see what has moved.
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I am IKIGAIER
The books give you the map, but you don’t get home by reading.
That’s why the workshop exists. Four hours in person, alongside other people asking the same questions as you, to listen to yourself, recognise what matters now and choose how you want to live this stage.
- 1Understand
- 2Discover
- 3Let go
- 4Build
- 5I am IKIGAIER
You leave with a direction that is starting to be yours and a first step to live it.
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You can read more about who I am and why I created IKIGAIER, and see the rest of my work at manelrueda.com.
And if you’ve read one of my books, taken part in a workshop or something simply resonated with you, I’d love to hear from you.
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