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Executive Programmes, Personal and Professional development
Executive Programmes, Personal and Professional development
"Doing less meaningless work so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness." - Tim Ferriss
The 4-Hour Work Week (Unabridged)
Product Details
LENGTH 13 hrs and 6 mins
AUDIBLE RELEASE DATE 01/07/2011
PUBLISHER Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK by Timothy Ferriss
Bella Enahoro
Product Description
Work – the rules have changed. Not just rising unemployment but the way we think about work today. We are finding that raw exertion is not enough to get us where we want to be. Many of us are working harder and harder just to stay where we are or even worse, for diminishing returns. Some of us are outgrowing a work life where we are told what to do, how to do it, where we can do it, how many hours we’re expected to spend on it and how much we are going to be paid for it.
In the midst of all these changes Tim Ferriss’ book THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK is a classic on how to change a career into short work bursts and frequent ‘mini-retirements’. For those of us still caught in the Protestant work ethic, this may seem at once a blessing, a relief from a life of work-bondage and somehow also ‘wrong’.
Many of us were raised to work hard and long for what we want in life. And the more we desire the harder we ought to have to work for it. This book is setting out a different and more joyful, fulfilling and ultimately effective relationship to our working lives.
Many of us may not work 9-5 but the 9-5 mentality is now a given assumption. This book is about increasing cash - yes - but also giving us unrestricted mobility by replacing presence-based work for performance-based mobility.
What if your work environment is a nightmare? Ferriss asks you to consider whether if tolerating a punishing work environment for years at a time is a prerequisite for promotion in your field, it could be that you’re in a game not worth winning?
Some key points made by Ferriss are
· working less is not lazy or cheating since Ferriss believes that doing less meaningless work allows us to focus on things of greater importance.
· If we remain under-joyed and overworked we run the risk of dying with best still in us.
· Terminal apathy and boredom are not a tolerable status quo
· There’s a distinction between being effective (doing what takes you closer to your goal) and being efficient (performing a given task in the most economical manner)
· Know the difference between just being active and being productive
· Use your actions to demonstrate results as opposed to showing dedication
· Create the architecture to free yourself, don’t just blunder from day to day
For those wanting to go into self-employment Ferris sets out a system to help run the business without our daily input. The goal is to create an automated vehicle for generating cash without consuming time e.g by out-sourcing.
Ferriss believes that a key part of creating one’s work freedom can in fact be achieved by out-sourcing – the ultimate goal being to create a system which replaces the self, leaving you free to focus on bigger and better things. The architecture of our business or work day needs to put us out of the information flow rather than at the top of it.
What result can you expect from this book? Ferriss gives a step-by-step method of freeing yourself from the bondage of 9-5 even if you are in a 9-5 job. It’s packed with information about outsourcing, virtual assistants, how to structure automatic payments, how to eliminate bad customers, co-workers, indiscriminate action and anything outside your influence. It shows how to create more free time whilst also generating more money. Decreasing income-driven work activity is not the goal so much as living more and becoming more is.
There’s no question that this book is for the buyer who’s ready to try something new. Maybe you’ve already lost your job, maybe you have a manager who uses the threat of job loss to control you and you are now ready to create some further security for yourself.
This book is also excellent for entrepreneurs and also for those willing to start a business as they work their 9-5, business owners, the self-employed and even regular jobers who want more freedom without losing their jobs.
If you happy to 'sit out' your job until forced to change then this book is not for you. This audiobook is packed with information for those who are ready to live by their own rules and it needs a thorough going through to make sense of all that Ferriss offers.
The book presumes a rather buccaneering spirit which is not common amongst the human race. We’re not all going to grow up to be Richard Branson – that role’s already been taken. However, we can in fact put much of what Ferriss offers into action in our lives. Little by little.
Copyright ©Bella Enahoro May 2012
Work – the rules have changed. Not just rising unemployment but the way we think about work today. We are finding that raw exertion is not enough to get us where we want to be. Many of us are working harder and harder just to stay where we are or even worse, for diminishing returns. Some of us are outgrowing a work life where we are told what to do, how to do it, where we can do it, how many hours we’re expected to spend on it and how much we are going to be paid for it.
In the midst of all these changes Tim Ferriss’ book THE 4-HOUR WORK WEEK is a classic on how to change a career into short work bursts and frequent ‘mini-retirements’. For those of us still caught in the Protestant work ethic, this may seem at once a blessing, a relief from a life of work-bondage and somehow also ‘wrong’.
Many of us were raised to work hard and long for what we want in life. And the more we desire the harder we ought to have to work for it. This book is setting out a different and more joyful, fulfilling and ultimately effective relationship to our working lives.
Many of us may not work 9-5 but the 9-5 mentality is now a given assumption. This book is about increasing cash - yes - but also giving us unrestricted mobility by replacing presence-based work for performance-based mobility.
What if your work environment is a nightmare? Ferriss asks you to consider whether if tolerating a punishing work environment for years at a time is a prerequisite for promotion in your field, it could be that you’re in a game not worth winning?
Some key points made by Ferriss are
· working less is not lazy or cheating since Ferriss believes that doing less meaningless work allows us to focus on things of greater importance.
· If we remain under-joyed and overworked we run the risk of dying with best still in us.
· Terminal apathy and boredom are not a tolerable status quo
· There’s a distinction between being effective (doing what takes you closer to your goal) and being efficient (performing a given task in the most economical manner)
· Know the difference between just being active and being productive
· Use your actions to demonstrate results as opposed to showing dedication
· Create the architecture to free yourself, don’t just blunder from day to day
For those wanting to go into self-employment Ferris sets out a system to help run the business without our daily input. The goal is to create an automated vehicle for generating cash without consuming time e.g by out-sourcing.
Ferriss believes that a key part of creating one’s work freedom can in fact be achieved by out-sourcing – the ultimate goal being to create a system which replaces the self, leaving you free to focus on bigger and better things. The architecture of our business or work day needs to put us out of the information flow rather than at the top of it.
What result can you expect from this book? Ferriss gives a step-by-step method of freeing yourself from the bondage of 9-5 even if you are in a 9-5 job. It’s packed with information about outsourcing, virtual assistants, how to structure automatic payments, how to eliminate bad customers, co-workers, indiscriminate action and anything outside your influence. It shows how to create more free time whilst also generating more money. Decreasing income-driven work activity is not the goal so much as living more and becoming more is.
There’s no question that this book is for the buyer who’s ready to try something new. Maybe you’ve already lost your job, maybe you have a manager who uses the threat of job loss to control you and you are now ready to create some further security for yourself.
This book is also excellent for entrepreneurs and also for those willing to start a business as they work their 9-5, business owners, the self-employed and even regular jobers who want more freedom without losing their jobs.
If you happy to 'sit out' your job until forced to change then this book is not for you. This audiobook is packed with information for those who are ready to live by their own rules and it needs a thorough going through to make sense of all that Ferriss offers.
The book presumes a rather buccaneering spirit which is not common amongst the human race. We’re not all going to grow up to be Richard Branson – that role’s already been taken. However, we can in fact put much of what Ferriss offers into action in our lives. Little by little.
Copyright ©Bella Enahoro May 2012
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