Personal Growth

Although I share well-researched knowledge from experts in their fields that have proven themselves very helpful for myself, I ask you to question everything you read here.

Please use my tipps as inspiration only. I don’t want to instruct, I want to wake you up.

I want you to learn for yourself, because only then knowledge is long-lasting.

My goal is not to give you new formulas and stategies, but to destroy your old ones.

I want to make you more aware of yourself and your surroundings and in order to do this you will have to unlearn first before you can learn anything new.

Before you start to blindly follow a piece of information (whether it’s a technique, a belief or a rule), test it and work it and make it fit your unique life and character.

I might point you in the right direction, but only you alone can discover and define your most effective everyday habits, thoughts, and processes.

Although it’s my goal to share “true” matter-of-fact content, there are no words out there to accurately explain reality, spirituality or fulfillment that we all so strongly seek. Those things can only be felt and experienced.

Open your mind and let reality be your only (un-)teacher.

The characteristics:

1. Maintain a long-term vision and plan
2. Believe in and practice delayed gratification
3. Use the power of compounding (for money, knowledge and learning from taking action)

The path:

1. Don’t only hold short-term goals for your life
2. Become aware of and begin to control your need for immediate gratification
3. Don’t ignore the immense power of compounding

Source: “Rich dad’s Cashflow quadrant: The guide to Financial Freedom” by Robert Kiyosaki

• The majority of people are living bearable lives that are below their potential
• Your ability to tolerate pain directly determines how successful you’ll be
• Busyness is often a sign of weakness; a cluttered mind unable to set boundaries
• The love of this busyness only leads to a life that feels short and ends quickly
• The (modern, material) world sets you up for mediocrity
• The world does not want you to succeed
• The world has one agenda when it comes to you: It wants you to spend your money
• The world wants to make money from your attention
• If you follow all the rules, buy what everyone else buys, act the way everyone else acts, and live the life everyone else is living, you’re almost guaranteed to end up in mediocrity
• The solution is to do what other people are unwilling to do
• If you want what no one else has, you have to do what no one else does
• Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

– Aristotle

Aristotle makes two central claims about the content of eudaimonia or “happiness”:

• happiness is the activity of the soul in alignment with virtue (high moral standards)
• happiness needs external goods

According to Aristotle the meaning of human life is to live well by satisfying our natural needs and cultivating good habits based on things that are good for us. These include:

1. Goods of the body: Health, physical strength, looks, vitality, athletic ability etc.
2. External goods: Wealth, food, drink, shelter, clothing, fame, honor, power etc.
3. Internal goods/goods of the soul: Knowledge, skill, love, friendship, aesthetic appreciation, self-esteem, honor, projects, education, artistic creativity, friendship etc.