Archive for January, 2008

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

My wife and I both enjoy cooking. In fact, we follow food and cooking shows such as America’s Test Kitchen and Good Eats.  We can make an entire event out of trying a new dish. It is therefore somewhat ironic that one of the major causes of stress in our household was figuring out what […]

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Insidious

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

After quickly reading The 4-Hour Workweek over the holidays, I started to read the book again on the weekend. My plan is to do a more careful second reading, hopefully picking up on things I may have missed and also to follow the specific challenges and actions Ferriss suggests at the end of each chapter. […]

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First Attempt At Outsourcing

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

One exercise I am working on right now is listing all of the things I do, both professionally and personally, and looking for activities that take up a lot of my time and only add incremental value. Perhaps some of these things are simply not worth doing or can easily be done by someone else. […]

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A Virtual Virtual Assistant

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I have a new VA (virtual assistant) and her name is Sandy. I have her tasked with starting my day with a daily digest of the day’s appointments and activities. I have her set up and manage appointments, and remind me of them and other scheduled tasks just when I need to know. I have […]

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Voicemail Recording

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

After virtually challenging the Four Hour Trial man to hire a VA (virtual assistant), I thought I would jump into the 4-Hour Workweek world head first and change my voicemail recording (let’s face it, outsourcing is the easy part). Here is the script I used:
Hi, you have reached the desk of Brick Andrews. I am […]

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Wake Up Early Guaranteed

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

As an addendum to my previous post on how to wake up early every morning, I would like to be clear on one item: the ability or desire to wake up early every morning has really nothing to do with the concept of the 4-Hour Workweek. In fact, the danger is that one’s desire to […]

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