9 peers and I completed the Coach Training! We were One for 12 intense days, 9 am to 7 pm, for more than 120 hours:🇿🇦 South Africa 🇩🇪 Germany 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 🇮🇪 Ireland The coach training accelerated our journey to a whole new level….
Updates on the Goal
Updates on the Goal is where I regularly share my achievements, obstacles and learnings.
In 2017 I set a goal: to become financially independent in 5 years. As I was working on this goal, a new, deeper goal emerged: to design a life I don't need a vacation from.
Let It Flow
I have been writing this blog for almost 4 years now. Every single article has taken me anything from a couple of hours to a week. Countless sparks of inspiration dissipated before I went through the whole workflow preceding the mighty PUBLISH button: SEO check, title, headings, proof-reading, readability, bolds, sharing it on social platforms…….
How to Leave a Legacy – Empower and Teach
This blog has been much more than a collection of articles. It has been a board diary, a record of my path. Dear future self, this is for you: a snapshot of my thinking and being at this very moment, way out of my comfort zone. Dear reader, who knows – maybe my experiences will…
Will you Accept the Call?
The two biggest creations in my life – my blog and my baby came after a series of coaching sessions. Yes, a real, human baby! For both, the blog and the baby, I had been feeling the urge, the creative energy from within me. Around both, the blog and the baby, I had fear and hesitation….
Update on The Goal After 3 Years
Happy 3rd Birthday, EyesOnTheGoal blog! Happy 3 Years of the Financial Independence (FI) in 5years Goal! Happy 8th Year living in Berlin, Germany! Gimme numbers Net Worth The upwards curve talks about itself. I’ve continued with the automated savings plan which buys ETFs for me every month. Asset Allocation For the first time in my…
The Lesson the Camino de Santiago Taught me
Wanna know the BIG lesson the Camino taught me? Here we go: I reached Finisterre on the 22nd of April 2019. It was my 35th birthday. This was the final destination – kilometer ZERO. 14days of walking, 300km behind my back. I did it – I completed the Camino de Santiago, this journey that unfolded…
Thoughts On Finding Purpose
Is finding purpose one of your life goals? Read on! My purpose finding quest In the course of the last two years my original goal of FI (Financial Independence) by 2022, expanded beyond the financial aspect: My 5-year goal is to design a life I don’t need a vacation from, to feel fulfillment and enthusiasm…
Update on The Goal After 2 Years
Happy 2nd Birthday, EyesOnTheGoal blog! Happy 2nd Years of the Financial Independence (FI) in 5years Goal! Happy 7th Year living in Berlin, Germany! Happy Net Worth Growth despite a 6-month sabbatical and part-time work! Putting time in perspective Just when I was feeling blocked and demotivated I stumbled upon the magnificently eye-opening article Putting time in perspective on WaitButWhy. It inspired me to…
The Goal is Dead. Long live the Goal
7 months ago I wrote about my tendency to start projects with enthusiasm only to lose interest as time passes. Spring and summer are gone and this same topic is still on my mind. I wanted to create, I wanted to progress, I just didn’t know where to start and what was blocking me. A Dilemma…
The Love of the Start, the Dread of Following Through
I love reading about failure! It is much more common and real than success. Other people struggle too. Other people’s lives are not as shiny and flawless as they appear on Instagram and the happy blogs. It’s not only me. We are all humans and we all get lost and demotivated. Has this ever happened to…