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Day Two
By Brick | December 28, 2007
Well, actually it has been five days since I bought the book that inspired me to start this journal, and three days since I started the blog. "Day Two" just sounds more exciting. One interesting activity when you have an idea is to see if someone else has thought of it first. You will find that usually someone has, and the case of a 4-Hour Workweek inspired blog is no exception to this truism. While I thought I might be doing something novel, it turns out that at Internet speeds, others have beat me to the punch! A quick search on Google provided a couple other blogs directly inspired by The 4-Hour Workweek:
They are also going to try following the principles of the book and see what happens. So that’s at least three experiments out there in cyber space for everyone to follow, and I am sure there are more. I have added these to my Blogroll because I can. If you know of others, let me know. I will also add them to my links as I come across them. Just think - a whole virtual community of 4-Hour Workweek bloggers.
I just about finished my first quick reading of The 4-Hour Workweek. I read slowly. My intention is to go back and carefully reread the book applying the principles set forth in the book. What I can say is that Tim Ferriss challenges a lot of assumptions and his overall message is worth hearing, regardless of the outcome of my, or any experiment that uses the book as inspiration. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and I very much recommend you get yourself a copy. You should get that copy by clicking here.
I have already been on fire since I started the book. In a little over four hours I did the following over the last two days:
- Registered the fourhourworkweekjournal.com domain. I used GoDaddy. They are great for that sort of thing.
- Set up a blog on my web host. I am using Wordpress (see The Famous 5 Minute Install!).
- Tweaked a theme for the site.
- Joined Amazon.com’s affiliate program.
- Enabled site statistics and tracking via Google Analytics.
- Wrote my first post.
- Set up an email host for the journal.
- Set up an RSS feed.
- Obviously I need to outsource this kind of work, but that will have to wait until I have shed the shackles of my 9-5 salaried employee brainwashing and established contact with India. Despite doing everything myself, I still find it amazing what you can accomplish in a short amount of time. Let’s hope this is just the start!
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December 30th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Hi Brick,
I found your site thanks to good ol’ Google Analytics. It was nice to stumble upon your site - especially since you posted a comment on mine yesterday. You should have made a mention about your site!
It’s nice to see that we are now at least three strong! We should join forces and distribute work efforts where applicable! For example, why should we each, individually, have to research to find a VA? That takes time, right? Since I’ll be doing this very shortly then maybe you can leverage off my research. Perhaps you won’t have the same likes/dislikes as myself, but I could certainly recommend the person I settle on. Other tasks like this should also be able to be consolidated. Thoughts?
Welcome and I certainly wish you the best in your journey!
-M - The Four Hour Trial
December 31st, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Hi Brick –
Thanks for the shout out! I’m the blogger behind http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com and really appreciate your mention. I’ll post yours on my blogroll as well and hopefully we can keep the community growing!
All the best.
Rex