Timothy Ferriss – The 4 Hour Work Week
Last modified: November 16, 2010
The following synopsis is from
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The 4 Hour Workweek, Escape The 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join The New Rich
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan, there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.
Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high end world travel, earning a monthly five figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less,The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.
This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: How Tim went from $40,000 per year working 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week.
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 frequent mini-retirements.
The new expanded edition of Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek includes: More than fifty practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point. Real world templates you can copy for eliminating email, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal. How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times. The latest tools and tricks, as well as high tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either one.
Those who are skeptical will look at this title and say it is not possible. The point of the title is to draw you in, the message behind the book is that there are the rich and the new rich and you might be closer to becoming part of the new rich then you think.
Traditionally if you have a $1m house, fancy car and lots of money you are considered rich. But if you are having to work your backside off to afford that lifestyle are you really rich? The New Rich is all about having your time back and doing amazing things with your life rather than waiting until you are retired and worn out. Tim Ferriss leads by example by doing some pretty unique things by learning languages and skills which with a normal job would not be possible.
Forget the title, this is about a new way of thinking more than anything. A way that is challenging but may just set you free.