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1) Hardcover Book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Crown. A good friend of mine bought this book for me as a gift. I read it from cover to cover. While on assignment, I remembered a section of the book that I wanted to reference so I bought another. I wasn´t looking to work 4 hours a day or live anywhere but as I read the book I realized in-spite of the title, it was very helpful. As an inventor and entrepreneur, I know that some of the knowledge in the book would have cost me a fortune if I hired a consultant. I structured my company´s infrastructure using the author´s advice. So far, I´m pleased with my results. If you´re looking to start an internet based business or sell anything via the internet, this book would be a valuable resource if nothing else a very interesting read. -JW¤ 2) Hardcover Book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Crown. picked up this book after seeing so much about it in the press.
It´s simply tosh.
He offers views on time management, outsourcing, automatic business processes, and travel, that any half-intelligent individual knows already...unless like Ferris you exhibit misanthropic tendencies, e.g. live on a low-information diet, never read a newspaper, only take emergency phone calls, avoid e-mail, divert customers to call centres and don´t socialise or belong to any community.
If you want to run an online vitamin supplements business this book may hold some value. Otherwise, use your time more effectively, and save yourself some money. Take it from me.
The one star is only for including Thoreau´s seminal work Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) on the reading list.
Now that is a book worth reading.¤ 3) Hardcover Book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Crown. Tim Ferriss is one over-achiever. Check out the list of what he has done in the first chapter. Amazing! For us mere mortals, he still offers great advice for changing your life.
Some top quotes and ideas from the book:
- Lifestyle Design. You don´t have to live the high stress, long hours life. You can assess the lifestyle you want and then design it. You don´t have to work all your life to sit on a beach at 65...you can go sit on one now for very little money.
- Outsource as much as possible. Weigh up how much time you spend on things. Automate them. Outsource them. Pay other people to do them if it gives you more time. Spend $30 on a cleaner once a week and spend a few hours with the family. Get someone from http://www.elance.com to write your articles for you. Virtual assistants are the way forward. [I have used several since reading this book and they are brilliant]
- Be, do , have. Decide what you want in your life. Who do you want to be? What do you want to do? What do you want to have? and then get on with achieving it. Life is too short to be stuck in the office. Set extreme goals that are worth achieving. Question everything.
What are you passionate and excited about? Go do that.
- Elimination. Have a "not to do" list and make sure you don´t do it. Don´t watch TV. Cut down your email to once a day (and then once a week). Don´t waste time being busy. Be productive in less time and spend the difference achieving your splendid goals.
- Find your muse. Discover a way to make money by virtual and outsourced means and free up your time to do what you love. This may take time to achieve, but you can make a plan and achieve it, so you can live a freer life.
- Empower people to make decisions without you. So you can have free time.
- If you don´t set the rules, they will be set for you.
- Living more is the objective.
- Know what you will do with this abundance of time. Look at your passions and missions. Move from a life of survival to one of passion and excitement.
- Experiences override possessions every time. Live life, don´t postpone it.
I found this book inspirational and it is JAM-PACKED with information and links to great sites!
¤ 4) Hardcover Book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Crown. Well written book. The information is presented in an easy to follow format with tangible examples. A must read for those in, or falling into, the 45,50,60 hour work week.¤ 5) Hardcover Book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Crown. I love love this book and it has changed my life. If you love this book and this review is helpful, click yes so we can get a good review on the 1st page.
Sounds to me like some reviewers expect too much out of the book. It´s not magic. Tim shows how he works a 4 hour work week and the steps that you can take to follow his lead and do the same thing. He also references all the books that led him to where he is so that you can read them also and get a better understanding of the concepts. He puts the whole process together and shows us how he did it. He tells you the whole process of actually how to do it. There are plenty of websites out there created by readers of this book whose lives have been changed just by reading this book. It really gets you thinking. If you are not an entrepreneur then ya it´s not a good book for you because you do need to have your own ideas. It´s very inspirational.
The people that are giving the book bad reviews are just not the entrepreneur type and thats OK. You can tell because of their comments like "it´s not realistic". It´s very realistic and there are plenty of websites and blogs full of people, right now, making it happen in their life right now and talking freely about it.
Don´t buy this book if you don´t want to take the time to come up with some of your own ideas about the type of business you would have.
Don´t buy the book if you don´t believe that is is possible to make more money and work less hours.
This book was the spark I needed to get the flame going!
¤ 6) Hardcover Book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Crown. What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:
“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes.”
“I scuba dive in Panama.”
“I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.
Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office
You can have it all—really.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 6-Nov-2008, 03073531339780307353139, 330-610-290-880-800-800-661-011-PQB-8 
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