The 4-Hour Workweek

Monday July 16, 2007 // Share on Facebook

I’m in the middle of reading The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich and I’m going to implement some of these ideas into my daily life.

It’s not that I want to work only 4 hours / week. I don’t mind working, as long as it’s fun. But I think I can work smarter, and that’s what I hope to get out of this.

For starters, I’m getting a virtual assistant from GetFriday to help take care of tasks that I don’t really need to do myself. There are some other tips from the book I hope to implement, including:

  • Adding an autoreponder to my email and changing my voicemail message, so I’m not expected to reply immediately
  • Only checking e-mail twice per day: noon and 4pm
  • Limiting the amount of information I take in daily… no more streaming stock prices and 8 news channels going while I work
  • Practice the 80/20 rule and Parkinson’s Law
  • Identify tasks as important or not, and time-consuming or not. Easier to prioritize that way

There are a few things in the book I have no intention of doing: setting up a new business or traveling the world (earning in dollars, paying in rupees, living off pesos) but it has inspired me to create a list of what I want to do in life. Once I get that list compiled, I’ll get it to my virtual assistant to help me get going on it :)

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  2. Eric said...

    I checked out that Ask Sunday service… it’d be nice if I were in NY city… I still need someone to do odd-jobs around my house, which my VA in India can’t do for me :(

    But… “Ask Sunday”? Common… you could’ve thought of a better name than that. What does that even mean? I think “Get Friday” means you can get your Friday’s back from your job… but “Ask Sunday”?

    July 27th, 2007

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