The 4 hour work week [Book Review]

“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

After finishing my university and internships in the U.S., I got my first corporate as an overseas sales operator of a manufacturing company in South Korea. But the joy didn’t last long. I was exhausted from the work which I would start at 7:30 in the morning and usually finish around 9 to 10 pm. After 3 years and a few months of the work, I quit the job and packed my bag to travel to Europe.

Tim Ferris, The author of ‘The 4 Hour Workweek’, tells us that we should abandon deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

Tim Ferris once worked for about 14 hours a day as well. He, however, escaped from the rat race by using his time efficiently, delegating work to others, and developed system automating. He is now traveling the world while operating his company.

“Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined.”

My current goal is that I work when I want I want and where I want. At the same time, I’m going to achieve financial abundance so that I can live the life I dream.

This book contains a lot of great advice on being more efficient with our time and achieving your dreams. In terms of deadlines, he suggest that we use impossibly short deadlines to force immediate action while ignoring minutiae.

“So first things first: cash flow and time. With these two currencies, all other things are possible.”

In this regard, I know I am bad at managing deadlines because I usually tried to get a better result spending more time. From now on, At least, I try to complete a prototype of my work until the deadline and then compliment it after a while.