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This is going to be fun.
I’m going after the 4-hour workweek concept in a big way, and I hope you decide to join me on the journey!
First, about the book. Well, I would love to tell you more, but I’m planning to finish this blog post in 10 minutes. Book reviews are not one of the things I do best, so in keeping with the whole point of this blog, I’m going to outsource this important information, thanks to Google. I searched “the 4-hour workweek reviews” and here’s what they have to say.
One review that is concise and on-target comes from JR at the “Get Rich Slowly” blog.
The 4-Hour Workweek is divided into four sections, each of which explores one of the components to lifestyle design:
- Define your objectives. Decide what’s important. Set goals. Ask yourself, “What do I really want?”
- Eliminate distractions to free up time. Learn to be effective, not efficient. Focus on the 20% of stuff that’s important and ignore the 80% that isn’t. Put yourself on a low-information diet. Learn to shunt aside interruptions, and learn to say “no”.
- Automate your cash flow to increase income. Outsource your life — hire a virtual assistant to handle menial tasks. Develop a business that can run on auto-pilot. (This is the weakest section of the book.)
- Liberate yourself from traditional expectations. Design your job to increase mobility. This could mean working from home, or it could mean using geographic arbitrage to take mini-retirements in countries with favorable exchange rates.
In addition to going through the book, and learning from it, I’ll share some candid viewpoints about outsourcing along the way. You see, this journey takes on special meaning for me because my company, Questus5. If you decide to walk with me on this journey, we will both need to delegate a lot of things to others. Since Questus5 provides top-notch global talent at a fraction of the cost of an employee, I will be using our own services to show you exactly how it works. This is what they call “eating your own dog food.” I’m going to learn a lot about what we do well, and what we need to improve upon.
A few parting thoughts for today before I wrap up this post. I am not like a lot of the people that go in for The 4-Hour Workweek. At present, I am not particularly motivated to work 4 hours a week or spend my time pursuing pleasure for pleasure’s sake with all the extra time available. I am actually on a mission that is urgent and vital. That mission is to help alleviate global poverty.
Please comment if you’re considering joining me on the journey!
Take care,
Greg
