Success Quote by Jim Fiebig

A businessman telling you to be amazed at your own existence is a quiet rebuke to the corporate default setting: optimization without wonder. Fiebig frames existence not as a philosophical puzzle but as an asset you’re either leveraging or wasting. The word “squandering” is doing the heavy lifting. It drags awe out of the spa and into the balance sheet. You don’t merely lack gratitude; you’re mismanaging the single nonrenewable resource underneath every KPI: being alive at all.

The intent is motivational, but not in the syrupy “think positive” register. It’s closer to a reprimand dressed as inspiration. “If you have never been amazed” sets a deliberately high bar: not occasionally, not in the face of a sunset, but at the baseline fact of consciousness. That’s a hard reset on entitlement. Most modern life trains us to treat existence as the default and happiness as an upgrade; Fiebig flips it. Existence is the miracle. Everything else is optional.

Subtext: awe is a discipline, not a mood. You can choose it, cultivate it, and you can also fail it through numbness, distraction, or the transactional mindset that reduces life to tasks and outcomes. In a business context, the line reads like an antidote to burnout culture: when your calendar eats your attention, you lose the capacity to be surprised by your own presence, and that dullness becomes a kind of moral and psychological waste.

It also smuggles in a secular spirituality that plays well in pragmatic circles. No doctrine, no metaphysics required - just the audacious claim that the most important “fact” isn’t market reality or quarterly performance, but the sheer improbability of you being here to care about any of it.