Nobody said it would be easy!

Life is supposed to be easy, fun and awesome! But sometimes, we forget about this. We are captured in our own little world, focusing on our day to day work and loosing the big picture all together.

If you want to get into the top 5%, there is no life hack getting you there!

In order to become better at something, investing more time can be a really good idea. But only, if that time will be used effectively! And with effectively I mean you need to work hard! We do not need to talk around this fact. It is better to realize this fact right now and right here!

So, what does it take to get into the top 5 percent? The answer: Hard work!

If you think, that just doing something here and there is enough, you will miserably fail my friend! Reaching your goals is not a matter of luck! Reaching your goals is hard and continuous work!

The way to the top is just that, a way! So start moving!

You need to work hard every day. From my personal view, a lot of people do not know what hard work really is. They think it is just pushing trough the pain, or working their ass off at work. But this is not hard work! This is just working hard for a couple of hours or minutes.

Hard work means having a dream and doing everything to reach it!

From the moment you are waking up in the morning until the end of the day in the evening. You are working as hard as possible on your dreams! Nothing can stop you! Nothing can hold you down! You are the hardest working person in the room, house, city, country, world, universe! You do not know what hard work is, because you are always working hard! There is no normal working in your life! And with this attitude, you will not only be able to move mountains, but also to reach your goals!

From this day onwards, your life can be changed with the blink of an eye! Just accept the fact, that you need to work hard!

And when is the best moment for starting? Right now!

You are not just a dreamer! Someone who doesn’t know how life is really are! You are a winner! Because you work on your goals as hard as possible, every single day!

“But all the others!” Forget them! They have no clue about life! They do the same things they always did! Not because they are different in any ways but rather because they do not know it better. Nobody showed them the way I am showing you! Therefore, make it a habit to teach those people these lessons. They need to know their options in life! They deserve it!

That is it for today! Go out there and work hard!

Failing is not an option!

See you next time!

In order to get to the top, you need to have the right mindset!

The winner mindset!

The second you get on the back of a horse, it already knows what kind of a person you are. No matter what you want to do in life, if you hesitate on doing something, we will all notice and ignore you. If you do not believe me, make a test. Get into a crowed and try to get from one end to the other. If you hesitate once, your way will be blocked forever. But if you are determined to get to the other side and really believe in yourself, you will just walk trough, touching others on the shoulder, “Make some space!”Hey! Let me trough! Thank you!” and the other side will just be a matter of time.

It doesn’t matter if you want to walk trough a crowd, get a new job, start with that business idea or get what you deserve. The moment you hesitate, the battle will be won by someone else.

In the sim racing world, where I am currently preparing myself for the real world of motorsport, you can see this in every race. If you are closing in on someone and do not show him instantly that you are the boss who is overtaking him, he will blog you off without any effort. This is just a matter of psychology. If you can pretend to be someone else, even though you are not on that level by now, he will be defeated before you actually start to do something. Just flash your lights, make yourself big in his mirrors. Break into the dark spot, where he can not see you anymore and he shall be defeated.

Distracting and pretending. The key to success in sim racing.

But how is this helping you to get into the top 5%? Well, as funny as this might sound, but this strategy works even if there is no competitor at all, but rather just your mind. If you play a role, pretend to be in a certain situation, you can actually trick yourself. With the right mindset, your brain will think that you are already at that point in life, where you want to be.

Pretending until it gets reality.

If you want to become a singer, pretend to already be one and do what a singer would do. If you want to be a professional photographer, do what a professional photographer would do. This is of course using “the law of attraction” but it also helps you in order to stay motivated.

Why do I work so much on my racing career, even though it will take years until I will be able to make the next step? Because if I do not start now, why should it change in the future? I will not wake up one morning and realize, that I became a racing driver over night. This is a long process, as everything else in this world. If you do not start you will not finish.

The best time for starting is right now!

Forget what your parents, your friends, your wife or husband, your kids, your colleagues or your neighbors are saying. This is your dream! This is your life! Not theirs!

But a dream stays a dream, until you actually do something about it! So, DREAM –> ACT –> SUCCEED

Three steps to your goals. Follow the path wherever it will lead you!

See you next time!

As already stated out on multiple occasions, this blog will document my journey to success, with the term “success” standing for “reaching my goals”.

How is the 5% rule working?

It is actually pretty easy. As you can see in the category “The road to success”, I have created a small time tracker, where I am documenting my workload during the week. As you can see, I am working 40 h a week in the office, but can still manage to do a lot of things. And you can do the same! Of course, you do not need to, but just realize the fact that you could. It depends on your goals how much time you actually need to invest, or let’s say, how much time makes sense to invest in order to keep moving forward.

There is nothing gained by nearly killing yourself on the treadmill today, if you need 4 weeks for recovery.

Ok, so using your time efficiently should be a top priority at the beginning. Where can you shave of some time, where can you integrate something into your busy schedule or make a compromise? How can you prevent yourself from stopping?

Use your limited amount of time efficiently

Well, be creative! If you like watching TV, but also want to work on your endurance for the next Boston marathon? Why don’t you combine those two interests? Or even better, combine your workout with another top 5% goal. I do this all the time and it actually works pretty good. Doing my workouts, practicing on the racing simulator or drive to work, I just listen to podcasts about entrepreneurship, motivation and this in every language I want to. Now I have even combined three of my goals.

Motivation. Something you can never have enough of!

Another point is of course your motivation. If I need to force myself for doing something, this is not the best idea. On the one hand I will most likely do it wrong or do not have my focus right, but on the other hand I will also lose even more motivation to work on this goal. Please remember, maybe tell it yourself multiple times. “Life is supposed to be fun! This is supposed to be fun! Go out there and enjoy it!”

Talking about fun, you should have fun while working on your goals. You need to love the process, feeling good when doing it and kind of can not wait until finally do it again. I have written a lot of stuff about certain areas of this in the section “Passion, Motivation & Mindset”. Just read it, if you are interested.

Keep track of what you are doing

You do not need to write a diary, telling your future self how hard you worked today in the gym. I mean, feel free to do this, it will help you to stay motivated, but honestly, you shouldn’t have time for this. Go play with your kids, meet friends or work on your goals. But keeping track of what you are doing is important. You need to make progress, increase your efficiency and work on your weaknesses. But how can you do this, if you do not know what you have done? The solution, make something like I do with “the road to success”. It takes me about 5 minutes a week and helps a lot.

Create mini challenges

If you like competitions, you should consider doing this as well. In some sports this is pretty easy to do, but not in everything you are doing. How can you battle someone this weekend while trying to become an entrepreneur? This is not possible. Therefore, I highly recommend you to create some “mini challenges”. They can be actually small, like, I will brainstorm 5 business ideas daily for the next week, or bigger ones, like I will have a 10 km run on Sunday at 11 am to simulate a race I want to compete in in 3 month. I will pretend that this is a real competition and give everything I can. Maybe invite some friends and battle each other on the track.

Change the way you are practicing frequently

Having a routine is quite helpful in order to work on something continuously. But! And this is important to notice, it only works, because you are getting used to it. You do not need to focus anymore, you know every single step of the process by hearth and so on. Of course we want to work on our goals regularly, don’t get me wrong with that, but we want to actively work on our skills. Therefore try to find an in-between solution where you have a kind of routine, but also some new elements.

I guess, this is it for today.

See you next time!

Yesterday, everyone could watch an awesome formula one race from Italy. Those 20 drivers, not only heroes, but also top performers in their field. For them, there is just one goal in life!

But for us, mortal beings, this is not really possible, is it? We have a job, a family and other “burdens” that hold us back from becoming the next formula one star!

“But if they were not there, I would …”.

And this is where I want to start. We can do what ever we want to do in life. Never ever in history, was it that easy to connect with people, start a business or live your dream. But most of us do not do this. They live a normal life, a simple life.

But there is actually a way. Even for us! I will call it the 5% rule.

What ever you are doing, get into the top 5%.

Instead of having one big goal to actually get to the top, you should rather have multiple once where you aim high, but not too high. Reaching the top 5% is ambitious, especially if you have a lot of different goals, but for the amount of time you are having, this is in my eyes the better option.

So how do we do this? How do we get into the top 5 %? Where is the top 5%? And who is in there?

Being an engineer, just guessing is of course not the best option, but because of the sake of simplicity, we should just assume for now and check later on during the process.

So, how do we start? Well, you hopefully know what you are passionated about, so just take what ever it is and try to get the big picture.

• What do you want specifically?
• What do you need to do in the next year to get started or increase your efforts?
• Do a benchmark. What are the professionals doing? How are they practicing?
• Use the Pareto principle. Where can you invest some time to increase your overall performance significantly? Make a schedule of how to tackle this.

And now, just do it!

So what does it take?

It takes everything. It takes a lot of your valuable time! It means to make sacrifices! Cut back on certain areas. You need motivation and focus. You need to work on this continuously! You need a new mindset! You need to reflect on your performance. Develop better and more efficient strategies to use your time in a better way. And of course set new stimuli.

But what does it not take?

Your freedom, your family, your friends, your life. And why? Because you are not investing 100% of your time. And by the way, even if you would invest 100% of your time right now, the learning curve wouldn’t be that different. Once you have created a foundation, you can increase the workload, and even change priorities. You never know how your life will look like in 5 to 10 years.

Ok, but enough about me, talking about general stuff. Tomorrow we will actually start on how to work on this. I will try to explain the way I am doing it. Hopefully this will help you!

See you next time!