Imagine that you could cut your work hours down to a mere four hours per week and make three times the amount you’re making now. Think of the things you could do with all that free time, the life you’d enjoy. Sound impossible? Not according to Tim Ferriss.
In his best selling, and provocatively titled, book The 4-Hour Work Week, Ferriss details how he has created tons of passive Tim-not-there income and freed up most of his time to create his amazing lifestyle of travel and adventure. He claims that anyone, no matter what their job, can duplicate what he’s done. There is a catch. Two, in fact. First, you have got to be extremely disciplined (you might even say selfish) and you’ve got to have a very healthy set of…courage.
Some of Ferriss’ methods are sound, though. Even if you only implement some of his suggestions on managing work flow (like screening interruptions and email) and put some of his outsourcing tools to work, you’ll find that you save tons of time. I’ve already starting exchanging emails with one of the virtual assistant firms he recommends. His chapters on how to automate your income were, to me, worth the price of the book.
The 4-Hour Work Week won’t appeal to everyone. Ferriss often comes across as flippant, shallow, cocky, and downright arrogant. You may not find everything he says he does believable. And maybe you like your work too much to cut down to only a few hours a week. As for me, I’m working on farming out tasks I don’t enjoy so I can spend more time doing what I love–coaching great people like you to get good things done!
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