From November 2022 to July 2023, I wrote 37 installments of an e-mail newsletter called “The Freedom Letter” as a mix of stories from my own life and lessons for personal development.
After a longer hiatus, the Freedom Letter evolved into This Beautiful Life with a broader focus and more stories.
Browse the archives of the Freedom Letter here or subscribe to This Beautiful Life for entertaining stories about, well, this beautiful life!
This is the first issue of the Freedom Letter. My feeling tells me that Friday will be the day on which I will send it. Freedom Friday? Fridays for Freedom?…
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Less is more. I closed the last Freedom Letter with these words. This not only applies to things, but also to the endeavor of doing as many tasks as possible…
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It looks like it’s about to throw up: ? I'm a big fan of the attitude "Where the focus goes, energy flows." Whatever receives your attention gets your energy. This…
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Because of a medical case in my family, there is no Freedom Letter this week. Please send my mom a bit of your energy to help her get well as…
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When you come face to face with death, you begin to look at life differently. Today's freedom letter is a bit longer than usual. I’m telling you about a big…
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"A lot of wanting, obligation, compulsion, optimization; little living, loving, being and feeling" – a friend described my last letter of freedom as rather unfree. Quite to the contrary: My…
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91% of people don't stick to their New Year's resolutions. I'll show you how to be one of the nine percent who succeed. I’ve already said it in a recent…
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"People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures." –F. M. Alexander Last week I wrote about resolutions and why most people fail…
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On December 11, 2022, I decided to travel backwards through time. In the six months until my 40th birthday, I want to reduce my biological age to that of a…
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The inmate of a small jail cell can feel more free than a billionaire that owns 20 houses, three yachts and a private jet. Of this I am convinced! When…
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Since my last letter, I’ve been struggling with wishing the circumstances of my life were different. While immersing myself in memories of the past seems like a good way to…
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"If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the…
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On December 11, 2022, I decided to travel backwards through time. In the six months until my 40th birthday, I want to reduce my biological age to that of a…
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Today’s Freedom Letter is going to be a long one and a good one! I want to share with you something inspired by a book I am currently reading. In…
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When you read this newsletter, I’m in the middle of a four-day digital detox. I’m spending time with my family without any digital devices. It’s something I do every once…
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I recently woke up at night. It happens once in a while. I feel like I need to use the toilet, so with the confident steps of habit, I lumber…
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On December 11, 2022, I decided to travel backwards through time. In the six months until my 40th birthday, I want to reduce my biological age to that of a…
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For four months now, I have been writing the Freedom Letter and you are one of 140 people who read it on a regular basis. I thank you from the…
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Just because a coach tells you that in the ABC of Freedom, C stands for commitment, that does’t mean you can’t change direction. On the contrary: You should be looking…
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I'm afraid. As I lie in bed, that’s the sentence that shoots into my head as the beginning of today's Freedom Letter. Every day I wake up with my brain…
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If we are to believe the World Economic Forum (WEF), by 2030 we will own nothing and be happy. It almost sounds as if Klaus Schwab read The ABC of…
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On December 11, 2022, I decided to travel backwards through time. In the six months until my 40th birthday, I want to reduce my biological age to that of a…
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It’s somewhat pessimistic. I just barely made it out of negativity to a positive ending. That's how I felt about the last Freedom Letter. And then came the feedback. One…
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I always wanted it: my own four walls on a large plot of land far out in the country with plenty of distance to the nearest neighbor, a sauna in…
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It sure took its time, spring in Germany, but now it’s finally here. And with it, time in my garden. Twice a year for about a week, I do all…
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On December 11, 2022, I decided to travel backwards through time. In the six months until my 40th birthday, I want to reduce my biological age to that of a…
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How did you get here? Which people, moments and meanderings of your life have led you to this point and made you the person you are today? Where else will…
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What does freedom mean to you? I'm sure that if all 157 readers of the Freedom Letter answer this question, I will get at least as many different answers. Everyone…
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A blue-violet dusk falls over the bay, rippling waves gurgle softly against the hull and a cool breeze embraces the gently rocking sailboat. We anchored here in the afternoon, jumped…
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Tomorrow is my 40th birthday. I’m in the best shape of my life. I feel better than I ever have in the last 20 years. I have the energy I…
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"Do you know the Mantocos?" The question came from another Steyr driver who lives in a truck with his wife for six months every year, traveling the world. There are…
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The path to freedom can occasionally be bumpy. There are the moments when I don’t feel free at all and the feeling of compulsion – external or self made –…
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Saturday, 11 am. I just got back from the night flight from Dallas, on which I slept for two hours during my break. That will have to do. If I…
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A man walks through a forest and comes across a woodsman who is visibly struggling to cut down a tree. The man says to him, "Excuse me, but your axe…
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How do you get an elephant into a refrigerator? It's a question to which you get two fundamentally different answers, depending on whether you ask a child or an adult.…
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Every day, each and every human has 24 hours at their disposal. Everyone decides for themselves what to use this time for. In the repeated lockdowns in 2020 and 2021,…
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For nearly nine months, I have been writing a Freedom Letter each Friday. Now the time has come for a break. I’m taking a one-month hiatus from the weekly publication…
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