DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week

Editor’s Note: First, let me note that this is a very long blog post. I probably should have chopped it up into a few blog posts, but I didn’t want to lose the stream of thought.
Getting a bit more practical, one of the themes in the Four Hour Work Week is the idea that [...]

On a somewhat random note, I have a habit of taping interesting fortunes that I get from fortune cookies to a printer on my desk. Why? Because the printer is right in my field of vision and whenever I glance in that direction I can see all these little bits of wisdom reminding me to [...]

Well, it’s been a week since I decided to audit where my time was going and work to optimize my use of resources. Did I get the results I was expecting? Yes and no. First, I have a better idea of how I’m spending my time and which things I need to specifically focus on [...]

Sounds like I got the pot stirring with my Time Audit posts. Some of my readers have suggested ways to improve the value of the time audit without increasing inefficiency. I was pointed by Jared Goralnick to a good software tool called TimeSnapper (http://www.timesnapper.com) that I’m going to check out.
In the meantime, some of you [...]

I received an excellent comment from id_bob on yesterday’s post about my new 4HWW Time Audit worksheet. His comments, which are right on point are: “hey, isn’t this missing the point? You’re task switching too much. You’re being inefficient by even recording the tasks. Will you waste more time in time auditing then recover [...]

I’m starting to be convinced, after spending another set of 16 hour days, that the only way to make progress on the 4HWW goals is to become ruthless about how I spend my time. Just like grazing throughout the day is not an effective way to lose weight, aimlessly working through the day is not [...]

I also came across today another great post that has more to offer to those seeking a 4HWW-enriched life. From the Dumb Little Man blog comes “20 Things I’m Glad Life Taught Me“. Some of the nuggets:

You must create and look for opportunities: Opportunities rarely ever come knocking on the door of someone who’s not [...]

I stumbled across a great resource online that seems remarkably consistent with the ideals of the 4HWW. Check out the post at Lifehack called “50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily“. Some of the ideas mentioned:

Most Important Tasks (MITs): At the start of each day (or the night before) highlight the [...]

Putting the issues of politics and the negative tone of campaign ads aside, political campaigns are amazing businesses. Think about it: in a short amount of time, a large group of people come together, generate significant volumes of money, spend significant volumes of money, create nationwide organizations that involve hundreds, if not thousands, of people, [...]

I posted the other day on the topic of finding a good bank for small businesses. I got a few great recommendations and ended up settling with Provident Bank, a regional bank in the Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania region. They offer free business checking accounts with no minimum balance requirement, the offer bill payment, [...]