Project Ubermensch: To become super human in 365 days
 

Project Ubermensch Day #1: To become super human in 365 days

To become Ubermensch is to become a “super human”, that’s what I exactly plan to do.

[Ubermensch is a term coined by Friedrich Nietzsche, the crazy as heck German philosopher. His famous quote is "God is dead"]

What qualifies as a super human? To become better then average – mentally, physically, intellectually and financially. That’s MY definition.

This thread will catalogue my adventure into becoming a “Super Human” in 365 days. It will follow my spectacular public success (or massive failure, hehe).

Here are the daily habits I'm going to do everyday:

Making moar monies:

Current monthly Internet income: $150 to $800 USD
Target monthly Internet income: $10,000 USD

Improvement: I have neglected my Internet income for a year or so with minimal marketing. Most of the income is passive. I need to do more marketing, and publish more books on Amazon Kindle market.

Hitting the gym:

Goal is to eat more, lift heavier, look better. Already going to the gym 4 times a week, doing 4 day body split,

I want to be bigger and lift heavier in the gym, here's my stats:

Physical:
Current body weight: 155 lbs
Height: 5’11
Goal body weight: 185 – 195 lbs

Current stats: [1 year in the gym]
Max 1 rep squat: 275 lbs
Max 1 rep dead lift: 275 lbs
Max 1 rep bench: 165 lbs

Learning a foreign language:

Learn Korean 45 minutes per day - and 5 new words per day.

Reading interesting books:

Read 25 pages per day. Been doing this for over 8 months now, read a lot. I love my e-reader! [kobo]

MISC: improving intellect:

Training for a better memory
Train cognitive skills to think faster
Speed reading

I need to train my cognitive skills better, alcohol had made me dummy.

Polyphasic sleep:

Currently I’m sleeping for 8 to 10 hours per day. I’m following a polyphasic sleeping schedule – the “everyday man” where the core sleep is 3 hours, followed by 4, 20 minutes nap throughout the day. That’s 4 hours of sleeping within a 24 hours period, therefore I’m gaining an “extra” 28 hours per week.

8 hours sleep x 7 days = 56
4 hours sleep x 7 days = 28
“extra” time gained = 28

Just making sure – my math sucks.

Conclusion:

Okay! I'm excited. Let's rock and roll and do this ... in real time, baby!

[Note - this is a backlog. I'm on day #33 now. I will be posting a couple posts per day until I'm up to my current day]

Ubermensch Day #2: Journaling everyday until the day I die.

Currently refining my schedule, and trying to make it “perfect”.

Currently leaving Sunday as “do nothing day”, where can I can be lazy and do nothing. Sunday is downtime, so I don’t burn out in the long run.

How many hours per day should someone do media consumption (that is NOT entertainment). I think 1 to 2 hours per day is a good ratio. 1 hour of reading and 1 hour of a documentary. That’s basically 12 hours every week learning – or 624 hours per year … or 24 full days of learning per year. That’s almost a MONTH full of learning. The power of compound action.

Likewise, if someone went to the gym and lose a mere 2 pounds per month (that’s safe and “easy”), that’s 24 pounds per year … or 68 pounds in 2 years time. The power of compound action.

I’m also pondering about reducing socialization with friends once per week. That’s 52 times per year, which is decent.

I also have a habit of journaling, I been doing EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past 3 years. The text is over 90k words, and I plan on journal everyday until the day I die. Then I compile it into a pdf and put it on the Internet.

Life is cool being the ubermensch.

Ubermensch Day #3: From Good To Great

Sunday is the lazy, do nothing day. With no real schedule. Read this book called Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins that studies why some companies thrive while others die.

He talks about the 20 Miles March – a guy who marches 20 miles every everyday, then he reaches his goal for traveling 300 miles or so. Same principle applies to losing weight, like a fat chick hitting the gym everyday for an hour. (too bad most of them quit 2 weeks in. True story, bro)

Life is short. Will it be spent watching Football and playing video games, or will it be spent into doing something “great”. I ponder this. Indeed, life is about racing against time.

So far here are the daily habits:

- Read 30 pages per day. That’s over 10,950 pages every year. Or 39 books per year (assuming an average book is 275 pages). In 5 years time, that’s 195 books. Not bad. (Been reading on the kobo daily since April this year)

- Take 3 fish oil pills per day for breakfast. Good for the heart and brain. (Been doing this for the past year)

- Going to the gym 5 times per week, for 1 hour per day. (Been doing this for the past year)

- Work on building the online business (Sorely slacking in this area)

- Meditation, lucid dreaming daily

- Approach women and accosting - er, I mean, asking them out on dates

- Spending 10 minutes every night planning out the next day, next week and month.

- Spending 30 minutes every Sunday planning out the upcoming months and years

Becoming an ubermunsch is a fusion of intelligent and physique. Life is suffering. Either suffer from the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret.

Ubermensch Day #4: Polyphasic sleep

Today I set the alarm and woke up at 6:00 AM, only to pass out until noon. It’s okay, I’m getting the hang of it.

I’m currently doing Everyman (with 3 naps). 3 hours major sleep episode and three twenty-minute power naps.

Math time. Sleep for 8 hours per day, the next 50 years you’ll spend 146000 hours sleeping, or 6083 full days sleeping. If you sleep for 4 hours per day using Everyday Man sleep schedule, you’ll sleep 73000 hours sleeping over the span of 50 years. Or 3041 days. In essence, you “gained” an extra 3042 days over the span of 50 years if you sleep 4 hours per day.

Went to the gym. Consume my fish oil. Meditated. Read my book.

I had been hitting the gym 5 times per week for the past 12 months. Gained 15 pounds of lean muscle mass, a noticable body transformation. Boarder shoulders. Bigger back. Bludging biceps. Squat 275 lbs at 155 lbs body weight. Slowly, sustained progress is the way to go.

I can blog EVERYDAY on this site for the next 363 days, it’s a habit, much like how I been writing down in my journal everyday for the past 4 years.

Anyways – here’s my refined schedule so far:

Daily schedule:

04:00 AM: Wake up
06:00 AM: Brush teeth, breakfast, consume fish oil. 15 minutes meditation.
07:00 AM: Head to gym (1 hour)
08:00 AM: 2nd breakfast, read book (read 30 pages)
08:50 AM: Quick shower
09:00 AM: Learn foreign language / 1 new word English vocabulary / sleep
10:00 AM: Nap
10:20 AM: Online marketing
11:00 AM: Online marketing
12:00 PM: Online marketing
01:00 PM: Online marketing

02:00 PM: Nap
02:20 PM: Eat
03:00 PM: Errands / Social Time / Free Time
04:00 PM:
05:00 PM:
06:00 PM:
07:00 PM:
08:00 PM: Dinner
09:00 PM: Nap
09:20 AM: Watch documentary
11:15 AM:
12:00 AM: Meditate
12:15 AM: Write in journal / online blog / next day planning
01:00 AM: Brush teeth, sleep (3 hrs), lucid dream

Of course, life is never meant to be micro managed. But the routine is the guideline I’ll follow close as possible.

Did you ever read Nietzsche's understanding of an Ubermensch and his understanding of what he meant by 'God is dead'? Just curious - a lot of people just impose their intuitive understanding onto the word and don't quite get it right. Nietzsche used an example of an artist for his Ubermensch. :)

Good luck with your project.

What did Nietzhe mean by Ubermensch?

I think Nietzsche's Ubermensch is anyone would who can will his/her own standard of being and personal system of morality into power without relaying upon an externality as an absolute authority. Hence, 'God is dead'. It has more to do with our perceptual understanding of how the world works more so than any thing else. He used an example of a trapeze artist who performed his art for no other reason other than the fact that he loved doing it as an example of an Ubermensch.

Just a stray thought: I think Nietzsche would say that the desire 'to be better than average' is an example of slave morality rather than an example of an Ubermensch as you are essentially using 'the average of everyone' else in order to value your self as a human being. If you are are below average, you'll feel bad. If you are average, you will feel bad. If you are above average, you will feel good. Whereas an Ubermensch wouldn't rely upon the average in order to will his/her being into power. His/her feelings wouldn't be dependant upon the status of the average but would rely upon some internal standard of morality.

Ubermensch Day #5: Gradual Improvement

Wake up in the morning at noon, failed polyphasic sleeping schedule, but I slept 1 hour less (7 hours) then minimum usual. Gradually adapting to a polyphasic sleeping schedule (4 hours total)

Went to the gym
Read 40 pages of “Good To Great” by Jim Collins
Consumed fish oil
2 episodes of Anime (40 mins)
Nap

My day is just half way through, I still need to do online marketing and learn a foreign language (currently Korean). Then lucid dream.

Principle Of 20 Miles March (or sustained progress)

-> For sleeping: Sleep for 8 hours per day, the next 50 years you’ll spend 146000 hours sleeping, or 6083 full days sleeping. If you sleep for 4 hours per day using Everyday Man sleep schedule, you’ll sleep 73000 hours sleeping over the span of 50 years. Or 3041 days. In essence, you “gained” an extra 3042 days over the span of 50 years if you sleep 4 hours per day.

-> For reading: Read 30 pages per day. That’s over 10,950 pages every year. Or 39 books per year (assuming an average book is 275 pages). In 5 years time, that’s 195 books. Not bad. (Been reading on the kobo daily since April this year)

-> For fitness: Going to the gym 1 hour per day. Gaining 2 pounds of muscles per month. Doesn’t sound much but within a year’s time that’s 24 pounds of muscles. (Likewise, for weight loss)

-> For media: 2 episodes is roughly 40 minutes. That’s 20 episodes in 10 days. Every 12 days that’s an anime series completion.

Misc:

Lessons learned from the book “Time Management Of the World Class”. Have goals and visions for the next 6 months, year, 5 years, and 60 years ahead into the future. Whoa.

My personal journal have reached 86, 336 words. An average 240 page fiction novel contains 40k words.

Up coming things to write about:

My online marketing adventure, AKA “make money while you sleep”.

Edit: Just learned an hour of Korean, I find that using google docs is immensely helpful to keeping track of what I learned. Here is the simple format I’m using:

Learn foreign language

Tues Oct 25 2011

Mr or Ms – Polite suffix ssi (she)

Hello – ann-yeong-ha-se-yo (An YOUNG HA SE YO!)

I love you – Sarang hse (Sa rung HEY!)

Sorry – mi an ham ni da (be an ham me da)

Thank you – gam sa hamnida (kam sa ham me da)

Good bye to person departing – ann yeong hi ga se yo (an young he, ka say yo)

Good bye to person who’s not departing – ann yeong hi gye se yo (an young he, key say yo)

Ubermensch Day #6: World Class Efforts

Today feels super productive, and it has only been day #6 into Project Ubermensch.

Polyphasic sleep: Slept for 6.5 hours, from my usual 8-10 hours core sleep. Slowly adjust until the core sleep is 3 hours. Took a nap today. Need to nap 3 times daily.

Exercise: Walked for 30 minutes today. Wednesday I take the day off the gym. (Current gym schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Thurs, Friday, Saturday)

Reading: Read 30 pages of “Good To Great” by Jim Collins, very interesting and eye opening book.

Learn foreign language: 1 hour of Korean today. To become a conversational speaker, people use around 3,000 words [edit: 1k words]. If I learn 5 new words per day, it would take 600 days, or 1.5 years to speak fluently in Korean. However, I plan on upping the learning curve, and learn 15 words per day (through 1.5 to 2 hours of practice). At 15 words per day, that’s 200 days (3000/15), or roughly 6 months. The time will pass by anyways, so why not learn it?

Korean progress:

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Oct 26 2011

sorry [alternative] – gomapseumnida (KO MAP SUM ME DA)

Nice to meet you – cheo om boepgessseumnida (chow um, pep get zoom me da)

I am ____ – jeo-neun imnida (chow um _______ im me da)

Yes (formal) – yeh (yay)

Yes (informal) – uh (ah)

No (formal) – ah nee yo (ah nee yo!)

No (informal) – ah nee (ah nee)

Word of the day is amimadvert (vert) – To comment unfavorably or critically. (an-uh-mad-VURT)

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Business: Spent an hour writing an “opt in page”, which is basically a letter convincing people to give me their emails, so I can spam them! No! I meant, keep in contact. It’s a 350 words “sales” copy, I put it on my website.

Next stop is writing a series of email, oh, about 60 emails. 200 words email at 60 is 12,000 words. Why write emails? Because it makes me money.

One project I did a couple years ago made me $15k USD so far, and they still send me checks every week. The project took around 2 weeks to complete. The POWAH of email marketing.

10k a month from Internet Marketing isn’t far fetch, I think. I’ll strive everyday to make it happen.

The other day, I deposit 9 checks that totaled $455 USD. It was kinda embarassing but at least it’s passive income.

Daily Conclusion:

I still have 6 more hours before my 3 hours core sleep. This is gradual, progressive, sustained effort to become an uberman.

The truth is, it just isn’t 365 days to become an ubermensch. It’s a life long progress to become ♥♥♥♥ing great.

Oh well, time to enjoy some anime and relax now.

Ubermensch Day #7: Bros Before Hos

Busy day. Ditched two seperate date with a Chinese and Korean chick to hang out with friends. Got drunk and chilled out with friends like a boss.

I got home at midnight, tired, drunk and didn’t feel like doing ♥♥♥♥. Yet I spent an hour learning Korean, another hour working on the Internet biz, type THIS blog entry and PERSONAL journal. Hm.

Polyphasic sleep: Slept at 3:00 AM, my alarm was set for 7:00 AM. I press the snooze button and slept until noon, for 9-ish hours of sleeping. Today, when the alarm rings, I’m going to physically ROLL out of bed and lay on the floor, then walk to the kitchen to make myself some coffee.

Exercise: Went to the gym. Today was back day, I dead lift alot like a boss. Chat with a skinny Chinese guy who weights 135 lbs but dead lifts 300 lbs. How the ♥♥♥♥ does he even do that? Was good to see him again.

Reading: read 20 pages. Finished reading “Good To Great” by Jim Collins, now I’m on to reading “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink

Learn Foreign Language: an hour or less of learning Korean. Progress so far is:

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Oct 27 2011

Thank you (informal) – gomawo (ko mah wah)
Thank you (standard) – gomapseumnida (ko map sum me da)
Thank you (formal) – gamsahamida (gam sa ham me da)
It’s nothing – anieyo (an nee hey yo)
Really? (informal) – Jin jjah (Jin jjah)
Really (standard) Jin jah ye yo (Jin jjah yay yo)
Really (formal) Jin jah nimeda (Jin jjah im me da)
Word of the day: Perdition, noun, The future state of the wicked, hell

Business: Wrote 1 email to add into the autoresponder. I also add the email sign up form. So the autoresponder sequence is LIVE.

The project I’m working on right now is a website that promotes stuff (not penis pills or PAM AM. Multi Level Marketing is for the proletariat) and I get a cut every time they buy ♥♥♥♥ from the website. The commission range from $5 to $37.

Plan right now is gradually adding content for the website, email marketing, SEO crap, and video marketing.

I’m going to alternate:

Day #1: write emails
Day #2: write content for website
Day #3: video marketing / SEO work

I need to rise more capital, eventually I’ll just be outsourcing 99 percent of the work. The 1 percent is me delegating this work to Indians and Asians on odesk.com

Meditation: NEW. Haven’t add this yet, but I’m going to do some meditation. I actually got Zen training by a white guy. Every session, I would meditate for 45 minutes in a group. It was pretty cool. More to come.

Daily Conclusion:

I heard some Internet nerd mentioned, “What your doing is cacoon mode”.

Apparently cacoon mode is when someone doesn’t socialize, doesn’t have a job, and puts himself into study or body building to morph into a butterfly, or something equally strange.

I say my life is pretty balance between health, wealth and relationship.

This isn’t cacoon mode, it’s UBERMENSCH MODE.

What your doing is very similar to some work I've done in the past (not training at the moment).

I call it the Metahuman project.

That sounds like you are using an inefficient learning system.
I think that 15 words per day should take a lot less than 1.5 hours if you use software like Anki.

Excellent idea. I'll watch this avidly.

Ubermensch Day #8: Hotel Sex

I slept for 3 hours. Slept at 3: AM to 7:00 AM, then went to the gym.

I was wondering while I was laying in bed - is this even possible for the body to repair itself after 3 hours of sleep? But - what about the ultra marathon runner guy who ... runs 52 marathons in 52 days*. How does HE do it? Apparently, he slept for only 5 hours per day.

Then I hanged out with the girlfriend, we hanged out all day long and had sex. In the morning. In the evening. At night. Then morning.

At one point I was about to pass out, because I only slept for 4 hours and was up for 18 hours. Such a long day.

Did nothing but rigorous sex. It's like jogging.

*Dean Karnazes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ubermensch Day #9: Social Tennis

Halloween drunk fest adventure

Hanged out with the Chinese chick all day, overnight, and into the afternoon, we stayed until 5:00 PM. I was about to go home, but there’s another Korean girl who wants to hang out.

Normally I would go home and sleep – because I feel tired and un-productive as ♥♥♥♥, however, all work and no play makes Jack dull.

I only hanged out with the Korean girl because she’s interesting – she’s intelligent, humorous and witty – something you don’t find in a girl often.

Even ought I rarely, if ever have platonic friendship with a girl (I told the Korean girl this) but I made her an exception because she’s an outlier.

The conversation flows and there’s no awkward pause as we drank and talked the Halloween night away.

How to pass tests women throw out

Socializing with her is like a tennis game, where I have to think 3 steps ahead. Literally. It goes like:

1) To come up with a reply

2) To come up with a reply that isn’t try hard or seeking validation

3) To come up with a reply that socially “cool” because it comes from a place of self confidence and non-caring.

Example:

Her: Are you gay?

Level 1 reply: What?! No, I like girls. Actually, the other day I was on a date with this girl … [trying too hard to seek validation and correcting her]

Level 2 reply: “Haha” [Succinct but it's decent.]

Level 3 reply: “Yeah. He’s black.” [Humorous, self confidence. Not trying to impress. The "cool" answer]

She constantly tease – well, not really tease. More like test how I react. So she’s throwing out constant tests, not to the point of obnoxious but a mixture of normal conversation, teasing, and tests.

She tells me that I’m too old for her, even ought I’m 2 years older then her. I don’t bother with a clever retort. Sometimes silence IS the retort.

I “accidentally” get her name mixed up with another Korean girl name. An under the radar blow to her ego.

She says her boobs are too small. I tell her to massage it to get it bigger. She tells me her boyfriend is not here to massage it, she wonders if other guys can help? I don’t offer ♥♥♥♥. It’s a very, very, subtle test. ♥♥♥♥♥ thinks I can’t see right through it.

She says I have no muscles to become a model. “Do you even hit the gym?”

On and on. I’m pretty sure she’ll throw intermittent tests at me until the day I die.

Getting trolled by a waitress

We each drank 3 glasses of beer each. Of course, I don’t buy her drinks. The waitress gave me the change, which is a $5, for a $10 bill. I gave her the $5 and told her to give me change, she told me “Oh, thank you” and TAKES THE $5. I’m like, “LOL U TROLL ME!”

3 of my friends came and I made the my friend, who is a chick with a short skirt, drink 2 pints of beer. She ask me if I’m buying her a drink, I said “Ha. No.”

Later the Korean chick thanks me, and told me to call her again to hang out again. She insist, even ought I stood up on her on the first “date”. Ha.

Anyways, time to resume back to Project Ubermensch.

Daily Conclusion

After hanging out with the Chinese chick, I really wanted to go home and sleep.

However, I elected to hang out with the Korean chick because I know it will be a interesting to hang out with her, since she’s very socially adept.

Through her and many other girls, I’ll sharpen my social skills into a razor sharp point to stab her brains and give her a good mind ♥♥♥♥.

Ubermensch Day #10: Deeper Understanding

Polyphasic sleep: Slept for 8 hours today. Apparently polyphasic sleep is not conductive to muscles synthesis, AKA "it kills your gain!”. I need to research more indepth into this. More time saved is okay for a slightly slower muscles growth.

Exercise: Went to the gym and did chest and bicep exercises like a boss. My 6 max rep for incline with dumbbells is 52 lbs @ 155 lbs bodyweight. Not a big fan of dumb bells, but I ‘ll strive to push myself harder at the gym.

Reading: 1 hour of reading, read close to a 100 pages. It’s a small big ought. Read “The Narrow Road by” by Felix Dennis, he has a net worth of $500 Million. Anyways, I re-read the book because it’s the pragmatic and REAL, like Miyamoto Musashi book of “Five Rings”.

One of my favourite passage from the book is:

Learning foreign language: An hour of language learning from livemocha.com, really good free site. I realize that, instead of learning formal and super polite form of Korean, I should stick to casual form, this will be faster progression then learned 3 ways of saying “Thank you”.

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Oct 31 2011

I’m good – chew zom me da
I’m not so good – ku joe cross zom me da
What is your name? – tongue shin nay eru min [pause] wash eme ka
My name is – chode eh eru min [name]
Nice to meet you – mana so pam get zom me da

Word of the day: nyctophobia /nik-tuh-foh-bee-uh/ noun – fear of the night or darkness
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Business: Right now there’s 3 phases to the business model, and I’m stage 1.

The 3 stages are:

1. Building the website and adding the content.
2. Writing the email marketing follow ups
3. Driving visitors to the website (via video marketing and search engine optimization)

Revenues method: Strictly promoting other people’s product for commissions. There’s one vendor that sells a info product that converts well, the commission is $32. I also promote physical products, but the commission is low – ranging fro $5 to $10 per sale.

I will be promoting 5 different products – so in case if they don’t buy from this company, they can buy from another.

Here’s what needs to be done:

Content for website progress: 5/50 pages
Email Marketing Follow ups: 1/52 emails
Video marketing: 0/50 videos
SEO Links: 0/50 links

Most important thing right now is writing the emails, which is basically a sales funnel and entertaining e-newsletter rolled into one.

Daily conclusion:

Minimalism: Aside from the obvious necessities, the only material things you really need in life is 3 sets of clothes, a laptop and a cellphone. Everything else is clutter.

To prevent burn out, Saturday and Sunday is a day off. I find Sunday is a good time to do laundry, grocery, and cleaning around the house. Relax and do nothing.

After going to the gym, and eating breakfast, my priority should be building the business. Then the rest of the day can fall into place.

I downloaded the software. Thanks.

Wht do u want to learn korean?

I like the country and culture. But it's mostly to pick up native Korean chicks.

Here's the languages I'm planning to learn in sequence:

Korean
Japanese
Mandarin
German
French
Italian
Spanish
Hindi

7 languages in 7 years.

Good on you for being so ambitious. Why japanese, german, italian, hindi?

That is interesting. I didn't now that.

Ubermensch Day #11: Physical Exhaustion

Polyphasic sleep: I slept for 8 hours. I slept from 3:00 AM to Noon. Something I has been on my mind and I can’t take proper naps.

Exercise: Legs day. Went to the gym to do squats, leg press and calve excercises. Pushed myself pretty hard in the gym. I’m so Zen that when people do bicep curls in the squat bar, I don’t even care.

Reading: Read 30 pages of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. He talks about intrinsic motivation, the pit falls of external motivation, and all that crap. A good read to understanding people and more applicability, what distinguish a bad employee from a good employee (can be useful for future hiring purpose)

Learning foreign language:

Current method of learning doesn’t involve learning the alphabet or grammar, or even the vocabulary.

I’m doing rote memorization of the phrases, and then pronouncing the words, trying my best to do without the foreigner accent. After I’m done the LiveMocha exercises then I can learn the proper grammar/alphabets.

Good execution is better then perfect planning.

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Nov 01 2011

Where are you from? – tongue shin en [pause] oh de so wash eme ka
I’m _______ from – chou um [pause] oh de so wasp zom me da
How old are you? – tongue shin in [pause] yo sa de she me ka
I am ___ years old – nan in yo za de [pause] me da
I don’t understand – chil moo get sum me da

Word of the day: aioli, “i yo lee”, a sauce made of oil and eggs

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Business: n/a. I’m sorely lagging behind in the business department, I need to prioritize by doing marketing the FIRST thing in the morning. I’m leaving it to the late evening, and by that time I’m really exhausted.

Daily Conclusion:

I need to see a doctor, I’m experiencing chronic fatigue. I’m not sure what it is but it has been a while since I went to the family doctor. Maybe proper sleep and stop drinking coffee helps but I will continue with the polyphasic sleep, I like napping.

My current wallpaper says: “When the work get overwhelming, remember that you’e going to die”.

Ubermensch Day #12: Back On Track

Polyphasic sleep: Close to 10 hours of sleep. I need to get back on track again but at the same time, my body needs that sleep because from the heavy lifting from the gym. I was squatting 225 lbs for reps and really pushing myself.

Exercise: n/a. No gym on Wednesdays.

Reading: 30 pages of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. He talks about “motivation 3.0″, how people need autonomy to become more happier. Motivation 3.0 means working with meaning and deriving deeper satisifcation then Motivation 2.0, where work is boring, and tightly controlled. He also talks about Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Learning foreign language:

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Nov 02 2011

Good bye – chai guy yo
It’s okay (casual) – quin chan na
It’s okay (formal) – quin chan na YO
I’m okay – Nah quin chan na
How pretty (casual) – yup poo da
How pretty (formal) yup poo yo
It’s pretty, isn’t it? (casual) yup poo gee
It’s pretty, isn’t it? (formal) yup poo gee yo

Word of the day: Metempirical (met-empirical, adjective) Beyond or outside the field of experience.

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Business: I wrote 1 email today, part helpful advice, part product recommendation for profit. At this rate, it’s going to take me a while to write 52 emails, FML. I need to up the ante by writing 5 marketing emails per day to put into the autoresponder (AKA, spam loader).

Tommorow I will try my best to write 5 emails but most likely 3. At the rate of 3 emails per day, it will take me 17 days to write 52 emails. Not bad, considering I just write it once and be done with it forever.

Content for website progress: 5/50 pages
Email Marketing Follow ups: 2/52 emails
Video marketing: 0/50 videos
SEO Links: 0/50 links

Daily Conclusion:

At the beginning of this year, January 25th 2011, I wrote:

That means, daily:

1. build business [edit: sporadic]

2. exercise [edit: started daily Nov 2010]

3. meditate [edit: didn't complete this habit]

4. read [edit: Yes, daily habit since April when I bought the ebook reader]

5. socialize [edit: Great progress]

I have been writing in a private journal since 2007, and I notice the pattern is, whenever I write down, I eventually get around to doing it, including moving to another city to play poker and starting an Internet biz.

Only thing to speed up this progress is, someone should have told me to “don’t confuse reading with action”. Oh well, live and learn.

Ubermensch Day # 13: Lucid Sex

Polyphasic sleep: I slept for 8 hours. I messed up my polyphasic sleeping schedule last week, I need to get back on track. Last night I slept for 8 hours. Forgot what I dreamed about.

Exercise: Woke up in the morning feeling like utter ♥♥♥♥. Ate breakfast and went to the gym always, dead lift 215 lbs @ 155 lbs body weight. I lift definiately went down ever since I vacation for 2 1/2 months, however I’ll work my best to bring my personal record for dead lifts (275 lbs).

At one point, I broke my ♥♥♥♥ing back dead lifting heavily weights.

Reading: Read 25 pages of of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink. The author with the very "interesting" sound last name kept repeating “Intrinsic motivation is good, BAH BAH BLAAAAAAAH”. Yes mon, I get it. I’m almost done the book, only 35 more pages to go.

Learning foreign language:

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Nov 03 2011

Love – sa rang
I love you – sa rang hey
I love you (formal) – sa rang hey yo
I love you (very formal) – sa rang ham ni da
Oh dear, or OH MY GOD – i-go
Give me ____, please – ______ jew say yo
Who – new goo
What – moo uht
When – uh ch aa
Where – aa dee ae
How - aa duh kay
Why – weh

Word of the day: Obscurantism (obsure ran tism) noun, Opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
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Business: This is bad, I’m leaving the business part to 2:00 AM, where there is no creative juice left in my brains to write email copies. I need to switch up the routine – hit the gym, write the 3 email copies, THEN I can go on with reading and daily language learning.

However, I’m not surprise because I have implemented 3 habits at a time, and 1 is bound to slip up.

Daily Conclusion:

I picked up watching Anime again, 2 episodes per day. Or 730 in 365 days. At 2 episodes per day, that’s 40 minutes in total. In a year’s time, that’s 14600 minutes, or 243 hours, or 10 full days of watching TV. Cool.

Resuming back to Polyphasic sleep. Need to lucid dream – flying and having sex at the same time.

I'm going to try some of the things you suggested. I'm 14 from the UK and make around £800 a month from web design (rough average, it's really unpredictable). I've actually been thinking of writing a book, I know I'm not going to make thousands but maybe I could write a novella or something and see how it goes and whether people like it. Any tips on money making ideas? I've got about 5 businesses lol but are all in the building or beta process. Crinkld - Coming Soon Login - GothamAds (I don't own this one I made the site and have a share) Vermilion Site Web Design (just my portfolio) and there's a couple more being built now. Also writing a book might improve my mental ability. I got an A* in my last exam which was... surprising but if I can keep that up I'll have A* in English, Maths, Science, ICT and Geography. That'll look awesome on a CV. :D

Socially, I'm not that bad. I'm not a proper nerd, girls wouldn't go out with me but they will talk to me if I try hard enough. Lol.

How are you currently making your passive income?

* google adsense?
* affiliate marketing?
* your own digital products?

Please explain more. :)

Also how do you intend to scale to $10,000?

Same methods or new methods?

Ubermensch Day #14: I’m a scholar

Polyphasic sleep: Slept for 8 hours a day. Feels good man. However, tonight I’m going to make progress again by setting up the alarm for my 3 hours core nap. Going to resume back to polyphasic sleep, even if it means initial fatigue.

Exercise: Tricep and shoulders day. Groan and make orgasmic faces in the gym.

Was about to “flirt” with a Korean girl in the gym, then I hestitated – is it worth it? I have 2 seperate dates this weekend, do I need a third one? Or should I go there with frame of mind of just talking? But why would I waste my time just “talking”? Thoughts like that run through my mind, I ended up leaving after the work out.

Reading: Read another 30 pages of Drive: the surprising truth about what drives us, by Daniel H. Pink. The information within the book does make sense, however the author is a bit repetitive. He “uncovers” (more like borrow) a few psychological findings, then hammers and nails it over and over again. He’s a baby boomer, so I’ll assume it’s a senile thing.

List of books I read so far this year, beginning back in April 2011:

1. Drive: the surprising truth about what drives us, by Daniel H. Pink
2. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck– Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins
3. The Effortless Life, by Leo Babauta
4. The Time Management Masterclass By James Mankelow
5. Everyday Zen By Joko Beck
6. Zen and the Art of Poker By Larry K. Philips
7. The Narrow Road: short guide to getting rich by Dennis Felix
8. Play Poker As a Business: Rob Tucker
9. A Year of Living Generously: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Philanthropy by Lawrence Scanlan
10. Make Your Own Rules: A Renegade Guide To Unconventional Success By Josh Young
11. Nothing Special by Joko Beck
12. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
13. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
14. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
15. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
16. Racing Towards Excellence by Muzaffar A. Khan
17. A 450 page book on the history of Ancient civilizations, I forgot the name.

Upcoming books I’ll reading:

Emailing Marketing: An Hour A Day
It’s Not About The Bike: By Lance Armstrong
The Elegant Universe

Learning foreign language:
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Nov 04 2011

Monday – Wha yo eel
Tuesday – que yo eel
Wednesday – sue yo eel
Thursday – mak gyo eel
Friday – kum yo eel
Saturday – tow yo eel
Sunday – ee yo eel

Word of the day: prehensible (adjective) – Able to be seized or grasped.
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Business: Wrote 1 marketing email today. That’s 3/52 emails progress so far.

But even better, I highly optimalize the website so the visitors join my e-newsletter, which I spam, er, RECOMMEND them with stuff. Ha. The 6 page website gets a modest 35 visitors per day, I need to build the website from 6 pages to 60 pages (more content, more visitors) but first I have to complete my email campaign first.

Need to hustle HARD. But happy with today’s progress, I’m more concerned about developing a HABIT building the business, then making money. Sounds strange doesn’t it? But by building a habit, I defeat procastination, and 1 step closer to 10k per month.

Tommorow I will write 3 emails to add into the list.

Daily Conclusion:

The Internet has alot of information JUNK. Like junk food and junk music videos.

Maybe that’s why I avoid logging on Facebook and reading blogs, because most of it (including this) is just inane crap.

Investing in an e-reader ($139, kobo) is probably one of the best investment I ever made. Why? Because I have downloaded, ahem, pirate over 500 books and counting. I will never buy a book ever again, the hall mark of a true Jew.

This marks the 2nd week of Project Ubermensch, and time flies. It seems like yesterday. It seems that I’m jumping through a time warp of some sort, because I wake up every morning feeling GOOD. It’s like good sex, hours seem like minutes.

Evaluation of the 2nd week:

Pro:

Going to the gym on schedule without skipping. I have kept this habit for a year now, and most likely, for the rest of my life.

Reading everyday on the e-reader. It has become very enjoyable. I hit the gym, come back to eat breakfast and read. It’s a habit now, been going on for 7 months now.

Language learning has become enjoyable – and more important, a habit.

Cons:

Still need to develop a polyphasic sleeping schedule since I like sleeping so much. 8 Hours per day. However, I need to cut it down into 4. More time, more conscious waking time.

Business – I need to take it more seriously. Over the course of 3 years I have dicked around and made $20,000 USD doing online marketing. It’s time to stop trolling people on the Internet and take marketing more seriously. 10K per month from Internet Marketing is modest me think.

The day I give a homeless person $100 is the day I’m balling.

Ubermensch Day #15 : Sexy Saturday!

Wake up in the morning, roll out of bed at 10:00 AM after sleeping for 6 hours, take a bath, pass out in the bath, come back and sleep again.

Wake up at 1:30 PM, hurried breakfast then hang out with the girlfriend. Sex in the hotel stairway. Come back home at midnight.

I am tired as heck.

It feels good doing nothing. And you know what? Life is good

Ubermensch Day #16 : Think day (Sunday)

Polyphasic sleep: I don’t have the discipline to sleep for 3 hours then wake up, because my body will fall asleep again. Instead, to resume back to polyphasic sleeping schedule, I’ll just slowly reduce my sleeping hours from 8 to 7. Then 6 to 5. Until I can have a core nap of 3 hours without waking up and passing out again.

Exercise: Sunday a much needed rest. In 2 months, the New Year resolution crowd – the fatties – will come and join the gym, only to be motivated for 2 weeks MAX, before they drop out. They’re always an entertaining bunch.

I, on the other hand, have been intrinically motivated to lift weight, and Oct 11th 2011 marked my 1 year of regularlly going to the gym. Yeah it feels good to goad, I earned it.

Reading: Finished reading up Drive: the surprising truth about what drives us, by Daniel H. Pink. I will NOT read books by him in the future, because he’s a senile old man.

On the side note, e-readers like the Kindle and Nook and Kobo IS the FUTURE. Paper back books will be the thing of the past, like fax machines and pager. You can buy a kindle for $79 and pirate all the books (or buy them for $2 each).

Paper back books will become a passe, read and carried around by hipsters. The general popualtion will read on their Kindle.

Learning foreign language: n/a

Business: n /a

Daily Conclusion:

Think – plan – do. Sunday is the day to relax, have sex, and plan.

Man that's great. I wished I spent my teen years designing website and making monies on the Internet instead of trolling people online and late night masturbation.

As for money making ideas, try affiliate marketing, since you can do web design, it will work in conjunction with your skills.

A good book to start is "The Conduit Method" by Chris Rempel. You can "get" it off Google.

Let me know how it goes.