ARCS OF ASPIRATION

MIND

›› Self-Mastery. Wisdom. Enlightenment. ‹‹

💂 Ubermind 💂

How Can I Conquer Myself Today?

No man is free who is not master of himself.

—Epictetus

Self-Discipline

• Establish a sustainable morning routine (Dec '15)
• Establish a sustainable evening routine (Dec ’22)
• Finish in an official marathon competition (Oct ’16)
• Complete a "30 day “NoFap”challenge (May ’16, Feb ‘24)
• Take daily cold showers for 90-days (Aug '17)
• Get up at 4am daily for 3 month (May ’19)
• Go 10 days without food (zero calories) (Oct ’19)
• Go 14 days without food (zero calories)
• Go 21 days without food (zero calories)
• Go 30 days completely without sugar (14/30)
• Go 30 days only consuming raw vegan food

Fear Conquering

• Hold a lion baby in my hands (Dec ’23)
• Go Sky diving
• Go Bungee Jumping
• Touch a poisonous Snake
• Touch a poisonous, ugly Spider
• Give a public talk in front of 20 people
• Give a public talk in front of 100 people
• Give a public talk in front of 1000 people

🎓 Peaker 🎓

Did I Maintain A Beginners Mind About This?

It does not make much difference what a person studies. All knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will become learned.

—Hypatia of Alexandria

Reading

• Read 52 books in a single year (Dez '21)
• Read 2000 books (327/2000)
• Read 100 books analytically (4/100)
• Compose 500 book reviews (44/500)
• Listen to 56 audiobooks in a single year (14/56)
• Complete 50 high quality online courses (18/50)
• Read through the Great Books before the age of 50
• Read through the Harvard Universal Classics (0/51)

Read 10 books each about

• People (Biographies)
• History
• Politics
• Art
• Business

Geography

• Learn the names of all countries
• Learn the location of all countries
• Learn the flags of all countries
• Learn the capitals of all countries

Language

• Reach English Level B2 (Aug '12)
• Reach English Level C1 (Jun '14)
• Reach English Level C2 (Jun '16)
• Reach Spanish Level A1 (Sep ‘08)
• Reach Spanish Level A2 (Sep ’09)
• Reach Spanish Level B1
• Reach Thai Level A1
• Reach Thai Level A2
• Reach Thai Level B1
• Learn 10 words of a new language every day for a year
• Learn a new language (B2 level) in 6 month

🧙‍♂️ Truth Seeker 🧙‍♂️

How Can I Measure This?

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you are scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. Short: "If you cannot measure it, then it is not science."

—Kelvin

• Log my spending (every cent!) for a whole year (2012)
• Log my location for a whole year (2017)
• Log my weight for a whole year (2019)
• Log my productivity for a whole year (2019)
• Log my time for a whole year (2020)
• Get my DNA sequenced (2020)
• Log my sleep for a whole year(2021)
• Generate a QS report for every year in my 30s (6/10)
• Discover a great learning from my data
• Discover 3 great learnings from my data

🧘 Buddha 🧘

Did I Do This With Full Awareness?

To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.

—Lao Tzu

• Meditate daily for a year (Oct '19)
• Build a meditation corner in my apartment (Feb ‘20)
• Meditate for 365 days in a row (Oct’ 19)
• Experience Oneness (Nov '16)
• Establish a daily meditation routine of 10min (Oct '18)
• Reestablish a mindful morning routine (Dec '18)
• Attend a 7-day Meditation Retreat
• Establish a stable meditation routine of 20min
• Compose 3k analoge journal entries (450/3000)
• Attend a 14-day Meditation Retreat
• Attend a 30-day Meditation Retreat
• Read 10 books about Meditation (4/10)
• Reach a meditation streak of 1000 days (385/1.000)
• Complete 3400 meditation sessions (1.470/3.400)
• Meditate for a total of 5.000 hours (203/5.000)
• Meditate for 120min in a single session (35/120)
• Experience Oneness on a regular basis (2x/week)
• Establish a stable meditation routine of 30min
• Establish a stable meditation routine of 40min
• Establish a stable meditation routine of 50min
• Establish a daily meditation routine of 60min
• Interview 30 people about myself

BODY
›› Vitality. Heath. Fitness. Mobility. Balance. ‹‹

🏋️‍♂️ Strong Avatar 🏋️‍♂️

How Do I Sculpt The Shit Out Of This Avatar Today?

I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.

―Muhammad Ali

Strength

• Reach Freeletics Lvl 40 (Jul '18)
• Reach Freeletics Lvl 50 (Jun '25)
• Complete a steeplechase (Jun ’17)
• Track 1000h of exercise (Aug ’20)
• Track 3000h of exercise (2.316/3.000)
• Complete 5000 workouts (2.167/5.000)
• Complete 300 workouts in a single year (298/300)
• BB Squad - 3x8 reps with 100kg (Feb '24)
• BB Deadlift - 3x8 reps with 100kg
• BB Bench - 3x8 reps with 100kg
• Learn to do a Muscle-Up
• Exercise daily for a month
• Exercise daily for a quarter
• Exercise daily for a year
• Perfect Apple Rings for a quarter (Mar '22)
• Perfect Apple Rings for 6 months (Jun '22)
• Perfect Apple Rings for a year

(Trail) Running

• Complete a Half Marathon in 2 hours or less (Oct '13)
• Complete a Marathon with only 10 weeks of training (Oct '16)
• Complete a Half Marathon in less than 100 Minutes
• Complete a Trail Run Competition of 21km
• Complete 2000 runs (398/2000)
• Complete 200 runs in a single year (83/200)
• Run 2000 km in one year (610/2000)
• Reach Nike Run Club Level Volt (1.152/15.000)
• Run 100.000 km (1.933/100.000)
• Walk over 2 million steps in a year (Dec '16)
• Walk over 3 million steps in a year (Oct '19)
• Walk 6 million steps in a single year (3,9/6)
• Walk 200 million steps (27,2/200)
• Run 100m with < 2'50"
• Run 400m with < 4'00"
• Run 800m with < 4'30"
• Run 1k with < 4'30"
• Run 5k with < 4'30"
• Run 10k with < 6'00"
• Run 21,1k with < 6'00"

Stature

• Reach and maintain body fat percentage of 20%
• Reach and maintain body fat percentage of 18%
• Reach and maintain body fat percentage of 15%
• Reach and maintain body fat percentage of 13%

Balance

• Win a table tennis trophy (Aug ’04)
• Learn to ski (Dec '06)
• Learn to juggle with 3 balls (Jul '18)
• Learn to juggle with 4 balls
• Walk 20 meters on a slack line (5/20m)
• Join a Table Tennis club
• Learn to snowboard
• Learn Tai chi
• Do a free handstand
• Master basic Parkour skills

🤸‍♀️ Avatar Vitalizer 🤸‍♀️

Which Batteries Can I Tap Into Today?

A healthy person has many wishes, but the sick person has only one.

—Indian Proverb

• Get a laser eye surgery (Sep '15)
• Discover the main reasons for my skin conditions (May '16)
• Find out what causes my skin conditions (May ’16)
• Defeat the Snooze button once and for all (May '16)
• Figure out my real Chronotype
• Figure out how long I have to sleep exactly
• Figure out perfect time span for me to sleep
• Keep a consistent sleep schedule for 365 days
• Master stress management
• Go on a vegan diet for 30 consecutive days (Apr '17)
• Adapt a Whole-Food Plant Based Diet (Sep '19)
• Go on a 'mostly' vegan diet for 3 month (Dec '19)
• Go on a 95% plant-based diet for 6 month (Mar ’20)
• Establish a habit of drinking 2L pure water daily (2020)
• Complete a 5 day water-only fast (Oct '17)
• Complete a 7 day water-only fast (Apr '18)
• Complete a 10 day water-only fast (Sep ’19)
• Go one month without coffee (July 2022)
• Switch to a 99% plant-based diet
• Completely cure my skin conditions
• Permanently switch to a 100% plant-based diet
• Complete a 14 day water-only fast
• Complete a 21 day water-only fast
• Complete a 30 day water-only fast
• Complete 3 month of strict 16/8 IF
• Complete 3 month of strict 5/2 IF
• Complete 3 month of strict OMAD
• Quit coffee for good
• Quit alcohol for good

😌 Happy Self 😌

Do I Already Love This About Myself?

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

—Carl Jung

• Accept the parts of my body I consider ugly, but are outside my circle of influence (Oct ’13)
• Love myself completely
• Burst of joy of living ("Joie de vivre”)

HEART
›› Do Good. Love. Give. Receive. Be Self. ‹‹

👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏼 Father & Husband 👩🏾‍❤️‍👨🏼

How Can I Spread Love Today?

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Find my soulmate (Dec ’17)
• Kiss a girl at New Years Eve (Dec ’18)
• Do the 42 questions to love (Apr ’19)
• Move together with my soulmate (Jun ’21)
• Discover my soulmates love language (Dec ‘22)
• Marry my soulmate (Dec ‘22)
• Parent a boy (Mar‘23)
• Forege A Family Manifesto
• Kiss My Wife 10.000 Times (1.500/10.000)
• Do a 30 days of surprises for my soulmate
• Parent a girl

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Friend & Relative 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

How do I invite more authentic relationships in my life?

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?’”

—Dr. King

• Have acquaintances in 30 countries (10/30)
• Attain 1000 Facebook aquintances (670/1.000)
• Find and keep 5 real friends for life
• Spend 1000 hours with friends in my 30s
• Parent a dog
• Parent a persian cat
• Parent a bonsai tree

🦸‍♂️ Philanthropist🦸‍♂️

How Can I Be Useful Here?

• Leave a €100 tip at a restaurant
• Change someones life for the better
• Save someones life (literally speaking!)
• Donate 50.000€ for a good cause
• Tithe starting from the age of 40

HANDS
›› Invest myself > savings. 80% maker schedule. <<

🤺 Masterbuilder 🤺

How Do I Become A Better Software Craftsman?

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

―Horace Walpole

Academia

• Earn a Bachelors Degree and graduate as one of the best 10% (Sep '12)
• Earn a Masters degree at an University of Excellence (TUM) (Oct '17)
• Earn a Doctorate in a field that harmonizes with my voice & mission

Becoming a Swift Sage

• Become a Junior Swift Developer (~500 hours of deliberate practice) (Mar '17)
• Become a Medior Swift Developer (~3.000 hours of deliberate practice) (2020)
• Become a Senior Swift Developer (~5.000 hours of deliberate practice) (2023)
• Complete the iOS Lead Essential Program (Sep '21)
• Create a Blog with Swift, on Swift (2023)
• Become an Expert Swift Developer (~10.000 hours of deliberate practice)
• Belong to the best 10% of my field
• Attend Apple's WWDC
• Create a Server-Side Application with Swift
• Attend 10 Swift conferences (2/10)

Professional iOS Software Engineer

• Do a 5-month internship in a company abroad  (Dec '11)
• Work in a company with more than 3000 employees (Sep '12)
• Work in a company with less than 20 employees (Oct '16)
• Spend more than 1000h in Xcode in a single year (563/1000)
• Work on an app with > 1 million users
• Become Technical Lead of a team of more than 3

Indie Dev

• Publish a 100% self-made app on the AppStore (Mar '22)
• Have 3 paid applications in the AppStore
• Build a blog related to my vocation
• Create an open source project on GitHub

Grok 20+ Classics of Software Engineering (0/20)

• Pro Git (read once)
• Clean Code (read once)
• Refactoring (read once)
• Design Patterns (read once)
• Dependency Injection (read once)
• Clean Architecture (read once)
• Object-oriented Software Engineering (read once)
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code (read once)
• Domain Driven Design
• The Clean Coder
• The Mythical Man-Month
• Test-Driven Development
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• The Art of Computer Programming Volume 1
• The Art of Computer Programming Volume 2
• The Art of Computer Programming Volume 3

👨‍💼 Effective Executive 👨‍💼

How Do I Accomplish This Important Thing Faster?

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

―Mark Twain

Personal Knowledge & Task Management

• Settle on a personal task management software (Oct ’16)
• Settle on a personal note taking software (Oct ’16)
• Establish Inbox Zero for E-Mails (Oct ’17)
• Establish a sustainable Yearly Review (Dec '2018)
• Establish a sustainable Weekly Review (2018)
• Establish a productivity system based on GTD (2018)
• Create a second brain (Dec ’18)
• Complete the Building a Second Brain online course (2018)
• Establish a sustainable Monthly Review (2019)
• Establish a sustainable Quarterly Review (2019)
• Implement the PARA organizational method (2019)
• Reach Todoist Karma Level "Grand Master" (2019)
• Moderate in a BASB cohort (Apr ‘22)
• Reach Todoist Karma Level "Enlightened" (2023)
• Complete the Linking Your Thining online course (2023)

Productivity Skills

• Master the Pomodoro technique (2016)
• Master Deep Work & Flow (2016)
• Discover my biological prime time (2016)
• Master touch typing (Aug '17)
• Grok BASB (2019)
• Grok Getting Things Done (Apr ’20)
• Devise my very own productivity system (FPS) (Dec' 24)
• Reach 60-70% of my 30s-decade goals

👨‍🎨 Author 👨‍🎨

Does This Help Me Release My Creative Potential?

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

―Pablo Picasso

• Start a blog on a topic of interest (May ’16)
• Compose & publish 10 essays online (Sep '16)
• Build a Newsletter with 50 Subscribers (May '15)
• Reach 500 Newsletter Subscribers (Dec '19)
• Reach 1.000 Newsletter Subscribers (Nov '22)
• Compose & publish 100 essays online (100/100) (Aug '24)
• Build a second blog about personal growth
• Reach 2.000 Newsletter Subscribers (1600/2000)
• Reach 10.000 Newsletter Subscribers
• Build, release and sell 3 products
• Develop a taxonomy for personal productivity (2025)
• Develop a taxonomy for personal growth
• Write and release a book on personal productivity
• Write and release a book on personal science
• Write and release a book on personal growth
• Receive 10 reader mails about how I changed their life for the better (5/10)

SPIRIT
›› Dreams. Games. Vagabonding. ‹‹

🕺 Renaissance Man 🕺

How Do I Keep the Child Within Alive?

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Produce a movie trilogy (Sep '12)
• Meet Emma Watson
• Get an autograph of Hayley Williams
• Touch (shake hands with) Hayley Williams
• Fire a real gun

• See Paramore live (Dec ’09)
• See Yellowcard live ()
• See Silverstein live (2011)
• Start a band and write a song (Apr ’13)
• Visit Tomorrowland before the age of 30 (Jul ’19)
• Learn how to play the guitar (Oct ’08)
• Discover my 10 favourite classic musicians
• Learn to play the Piano
• Give people a good time playing the guitar at a campfire
• Be able to play 10 finger-style songs
• Learn to play the ukulele
• Be able to play all Paramore songs
• Be able to play 50 songs from memory!
• Record a song in a studio
• Be able to play 10 hardcore finger style songs
• Go clubbing in Las Vegas
• Learn 3 classic dances (1/3)

• Learn how to draw
• Learn 6 foundational Pen Spinning techniques
• Learn some basic Card Shuffling techniques
• Learn how to open bottles in a fancy way

• Watch a musical on broadway  (Oct ’11)
• Play in a theatre (Dec '14)
• Be on Television (Apr ’16)
• Dance into the sunrise (Aug ’16)
• Gamble in Las Vegas (Nov ’16)
• Watch the night sky from the desert (Nov ’16)
• Get goose bumps because of breathtaking nature (Nov ’16)
• Shower in a waterfall (Jan ’18)
• Watch & Rate 1.000 movies (870/1000)
• Go swimming with dolphins
• Drive a car with 400PS for a day
• Drink a 500€ Champagne

🪂 Vagabonder 🪂

How Can I Embed Travel Into My Year?

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

—Marcel Proust

• Travel to 100 countries (22/100)
• Really experience life in North America (Sep ’11)
• Really experience life in multiple Asian countries (Nov ’17)
• Vagabond through South East Asia for 4 month (Feb ’17)
• Spent my parental leave traveling with my wife & son (Dec ’23)
• Vagabond through Central/South America for 4 month
• Vagabond through Africa for 4 month
• Really experience life in multiple Central/South American countries
• Really experience life in multiple African countries
• Set a food on Antarctica

Visit one new country every year

• 2011 (Canada, USA NY)
• 2012 (Italy)
• 2013 (Czechia)
• 2014 (Switzerland)
• 2015 (Austria)
• 2016 (Croatia, California, Arizona)
• 2017 (Thailand, Laos)
• 2018 (Vietnam, Myanmar)
• 2019 (India, Belgium)
• 2020 (COVID 😢)
• 2021 (Greece)
• 2022 (France)
• 2023 (Singapore, The Philippines)
• 2024 (The Netherlands)
• 2025 (-)
• 2026 (Tunisia)
• 2027 (Spain? Portugal?)

City-trip through the 10 big cities in Germany

• Stuttgart ('05?, ..)
• Berlin (Aug '08)
• Cologne (Dec '09)
• Munich (Jun '14)
• Hamburg (Aug '15)
• Frankfurt (Nov '21)
• Dresden (Jul 23)
• Düsseldorf (Dec' 24)
• Essen (Dec' 24)
• Dortmund (Dec' 24)
• Leipzig
• Second round: visit all cities at least twice

Really experience life in Australia

• Celebrate New Years in Sydney
• See and touch a Wombat :3
• Go swimming with dolphins

Sight Seeing

• Visit Niagra Falls (Aug ’11)
• See Times Square at night (Oct ’11)
• See the Northern Lights
• Visit Stonehenge (England)
• Visit Machu Picchu (Peru)
• Visit Victoria Falls (Zambia)
• Visit City of Petra (Jordan)
• Visit Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
• Chill on Hawaii for 2 weeks
• Cruise the Caribbean

VOICE
›› Explore. Experiments. Execution. ‹‹

🗽 Liberty Man 🗽

How Can I Reach Financial Independency With Beeing Helpful?

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

—Benjamin Franklin

• Establish the habit of tracking all my spendings (2012)
• Buy an apartment in a city I love
• own a house in Germany (Jul ’23)
• own a house in Thailand
• Earn 10.000€ on the stock market (Dec '20)
• Earn 20.000€ with crypto (24)
• Make 50.000 € in one year (Dec '19)
• Make 60.000 € in one year (2020)
• Make 70.000 € in one year (2022)
• Make 80.000 € in one year (2024)
• Make over 90.000 € in one year
• Make over 100.000 € in one year
• Make over 200.000 € in one year
• Raise my net worth to 50.000€ (2021)
• Raise my net worth to 100.000€ (Dec '24)
• Raise my net worth to 200.000€
• Raise my net worth to 500.000€
• Build a passive income of 100€/month (2024)
• Build a passive income of 500€/month
• Build a passive income of 1000€/month
• Reduce professional work to 4 days a week
• Reduce professional work to 3 days a week
• Work >80% remote for two years (2022)
• Freelance for a year
• Go Indie for a year

🤴 Person of Stature 🤴

Does This Help Me Sculpt a Virtuous Character?

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

—Mahatma Gandhi

• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Courage"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Truthfulness"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Temperance"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of  "Liberality"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of  "Magnificence"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Pride"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of  "Honor"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Good Temper"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of  "Friendliness"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Friendship"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Wit"
• Spend one year on developing the virtue of "Justice"

🦸‍♂️ Architect of Destiny 🦸‍♂️

How Can I Do This Authentically?

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.

—Henry David Thoreau

• Build an Impossible List and make it publicly available (Dec '16)
• Build a career, that gives me the freedom to work when and how I want (Jun '18)
• Build a career, that gives me the freedom to work where I want(Jul '21)
• Build a personal website (Aug '15)
• Build and publish a personal growth app
• Build a career, that gives me the freedom to be totally authentic in what I do
• Build a career, that supports my mission and voice
• Discover my greatest strength(s) with StrengthsFinder Ⓡ
• Hire a virtual assistant
• Start a business
• Join Conscious Growth Club (May '24)
• Explore Lucid Dreaming
• Practice Radical Honesty
• Go on a "Digital Fast" for 30 days
• Live a month with zero expenses
• Sleep in "Everyman" for one month
• Sleep in "Uberman" for one month
• Do a daily VLOG for 30 days