A fellow colleague in the travel affiliate world has just reminded me about “The 4 Hour Working Week“, a book and blog by serial entrepreneur Tim Ferriss. I say reminded me — he mentioned it before, and I really should have taken a look then. Much of what he says is based on the good old Pareto rule, which basically states that you can get 80% of your results from 20% of effort, as long as you know how to concentrate on the right 20%.
I can’t really comment on this much further, because I have been so out of practice lately with all of these techniques, but I hope that at least by making a bookmark to this website, and scratching out a few thoughts here to come back to, I can make sure that I go back and do a lot more of this into practice. However, there is something about this guy that really separates him from all the traditional self-improvement manuals which are out there, and that’s at he is able to use such wonderful jargon and acronyms. I’ve never met the guy, and only even spent about five minutes on his website, but I’m liking him already!
Here’s a few of my favourites:
- “Everything popular is wrong” (sounds like a little bit of a rewind back to Zoo TV)
- MBA = Management by absence
- Geoarbitrage
- “Protecting” time (after all, we all go to such great lengths to protect our money)
- Remote Control CEOs
- “Ultravagabond”
Now, what was that I was thinking about whether or not I really need an office?
Back to work….
