Entry 11: Excerpt from Tim Ferriss blog I.

• Reading Tim Ferris 4-hour WorkWeek blog from the first post. Most of the sentence below will be direct quote by him or the point is aspire by his post.

• More with less. Smarter is better than harder.

• How can you redesign your life in 48hours?. How can I use my next 48hours to achieve my dreams?.
  1. First I need to determine where am I now and where do I want to go.
  2. I have to define the lifestyles I want to life.
  3. I need to figure out how those lifestyles will cost me, in term of annually expenses.
  4. I have to determine how many hours I need to bill per week to get the lifestyles I want.
  5. I need to figure out how to decrease those hours and increase our profits by outsourcing some of the work.

• On this post, Tim talked about test drive your dream job. What is my dream job actually and how does it become my dream job?. What is the motivation on choosing the job as my dream job?. Is it because of money or passion or just thought the job is cool?.

• On effectiveness (doing the right thing), focus on one thing and eliminate all the distractions. Have to plan week-by-week, achieves the weekly objectives according to the monthly objectives. Focus on why I need to the thing on top of how. By asking why first, prioritize is doing it’s part. The time per getting things done is half an hour. On that time will only focus on job at hand. No answering calls or sms, no Fb, no tweet, just single minded to the task at hand. Consider the option of being productive instead of being busy. Change the work culture. Identify the sphere of influence, increase the positive and cut the negative, balance accordingly.

• As everyone knew, that I really love to read. Reading is a total time waster. I read all kinds of books/magazines/newspapers in every genre without any specific reasons or objectives. It’s a hobby. It’s really a good hobby, no doubt about it. Just after a deep reflect, it was actually a big time waster for me. What I read doesn’t become a knowledge but just a piece of information. To turn the information to knowledge, I need to have clear understanding on why do I need to read the books/magazines/newspapers.

• How many hours do I work for each day of vacation?. What percentage of my life do I really spend working vs. doing something I want to be doing?

• Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the “freedom multiplier.”

“After climbing a great hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended.” – Nelson Mandela

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