Archive for January, 2008

Interview…Coming Soon

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

First time here? If you would like to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am being interviewed by Mike Vardy for The EffTD™ Interview Series.  Mike is a self professed productivity expert. He has developed a new productivity […]

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Outsourcing Update: Part 2

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

In a previous post I described my first attempt at outsourcing. I was diligently trying to ship some software programming work overseas. Please don’t tell Lou Dobbs! At the same time, I decided to test a theory: could I find better freelancers through programming forums instead of using popular outsourcing sites such as Elance.
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Taking Advantage

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I have been following the comments on a post at the excellent zenhabits blog entitled: Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From Home. The 4-Hour Workweek philosophy advocates liberation from the office - that freedom often being contingent on the ability to be more productive when working remotely. I thought the […]

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Viral Marketing

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

What some people may not know about The 4-Hour Workweek is that the book itself is a case study in viral marketing. Take yourself back almost one year, and you would find that Tim Ferriss was virtually unknown to the general public. Ferriss was a first time author with no traditional advertising or public relations. […]

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A Reason To Live

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Over the weekend I was watching a NOVA episode on thirteen novices training for the Boston Marathon. As described by PBS:
How do you run 26.2 miles if you have trouble making it around the block? With good coaching, discipline, and lots of group support, as NOVA shows when it follows 13 generally sedentary people through […]

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Managing Email

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The other day I was reading The Four Hour Trial where he laments over having to check email on multiple email accounts. The 4-Hour Workweek counsels us to immediately implement a personal policy of checking email only twice a day (with the ultimate goal of checking even less frequently - author Tim Ferriss boasts of […]

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Single Tasking

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

In a keynote speech to top CEO’s and government officials at the New New Internet Conference in Washington DC, 4-Hour Workweek author Timothy Ferriss makes the claim that people with the most time and the highest incomes are characterized by the ability to single task: focusing on the truly important, without interruption, to completion. Here […]

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All The Things I Do

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

One idea that has really resonated with me lately is that we really should work to live, yet often we end up living to work. Unfulfilling work can consume so much of our time, leaving tired evenings and perhaps a few hours on the weekends to pursue our dreams - if we even have any […]

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Clutter

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

The 4-Hour Workweek credo describes the concept of elimination - eliminating or otherwise offloading the tasks that take up 80% of our time and yet add no, or only incremental value. It is not a matter of better organizing the time you spend on tasks (i.e. classic time management) but doing only the tasks that […]

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Outsourcing Update

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

In a previous post, I had outlined a strategy where I had identified a candidate to whom I might outsource some programming work.  This strategy is based on the use of popular programmer forums. As I had mentioned, the benefit of this approach is being able to understand a programmer’s skills up front as well […]

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