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SXSW 2007 Interactve Conference - Tim Farriss from fourhourworkweek.com
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- SXSW 2007 Interactve Conference - Tim Farriss from fourhourworkweek.com
- questions
- how do your priorities and decisions change if retirement will never be an option?
- if you are going to have to work all the time. not retire
- eg would get bored if not working
- avoid being unable to fill the void if work is your identity
- scalability
- is your business scalable
- is your career scalable
- is your lifestyle scalable (most important)
- and if it isn't, when are you going to face a bottleneck
- are you in a game worth winning and is it scalable
- principles / commonalities of people who design ideal lifestyles for themselves
- 3 currencies (in order of importance)
- time (non renewable)
- income
- mobility
- structure
- definition
- determining what it is you want to create from a lifestyle pov
- and how much that costs - what are the financial realities of designing an ideal lifestyle
- define 3 things
- what you want to do
- what you want to be
- what you want to have
- what portion of your efforts are producing that result
- 80/20 principle (paradores principle)
- 20% of your input / actions should produce 80% of your results
- what 20% of my activities are producing 80% of my desired outcome
- then (ruthlessly) eliminate the rest which is taking up time
- limit the tasks to only the important
- parkinson's law
- introduced by Ed Shough (?) from princeton
- a task will swell with perceived complexitity and importance in direct correlation with the time that you allot it
- limit the time to what's really important
- elimination
- batching
- eg email
- set an autoresponder on email
- to manage other people's expectations
- automation
- outsource anything that can be done for less than $X a day (ie less than your hourly rate)
- eg to India - virtual assistants
- eg internet research, spreadsheets
- rules you can set for yourself instead of responding in a culture of urgency
- your man in india
- brickwork
- liberation
- first step is creating mobility
- take advantage of the time you have when u get it
- timferriss@gmail.com
- http://www.fourhourworkweek.com
- http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=show&id=IAP060286
- http://audio.sxsw.com/podcast/interactive/panel/2007/SXSW07.INT.20070312.TheFourHourWorkweek.mp3
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- SXSW 2007 Interactve Conference - Tim Farriss from fourhourworkweek.com
- questions
- how do your priorities and decisions change if retirement will never be an option?
- if you are going to have to work all the time. not retire
- eg would get bored if not working
- avoid being unable to fill the void if work is your identity
- scalability
- is your business scalable
- is your career scalable
- is your lifestyle scalable (most important)
- and if it isn't, when are you going to face a bottleneck
- are you in a game worth winning and is it scalable
- principles / commonalities of people who design ideal lifestyles for themselves
- 3 currencies (in order of importance)
- time (non renewable)
- income
- mobility
- structure
- definition
- determining what it is you want to create from a lifestyle pov
- and how much that costs - what are the financial realities of designing an ideal lifestyle
- define 3 things
- what you want to do
- what you want to be
- what you want to have
- what portion of your efforts are producing that result
- 80/20 principle (paradores principle)
- 20% of your input / actions should produce 80% of your results
- what 20% of my activities are producing 80% of my desired outcome
- then (ruthlessly) eliminate the rest which is taking up time
- limit the tasks to only the important
- parkinson's law
- introduced by Ed Shough (?) from princeton
- a task will swell with perceived complexitity and importance in direct correlation with the time that you allot it
- limit the time to what's really important
- elimination
- batching
- eg email
- set an autoresponder on email
- to manage other people's expectations
- automation
- outsource anything that can be done for less than $X a day (ie less than your hourly rate)
- eg to India - virtual assistants
- eg internet research, spreadsheets
- rules you can set for yourself instead of responding in a culture of urgency
- your man in india
- brickwork
- liberation
- first step is creating mobility
- take advantage of the time you have when u get it
- timferriss@gmail.com
- http://www.fourhourworkweek.com
- http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=show&id=IAP060286
- http://audio.sxsw.com/podcast/interactive/panel/2007/SXSW07.INT.20070312.TheFourHourWorkweek.mp3
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