Book: 4 hour week work

first and foremost

  • escape night to five, no retirement
  • people don’t want to be millionaires they want to experience
  • definiton, elimination, automation, liberation. Deal

d is for definition

  • mini retirements

  • do what you like,work for you

  • have others working for you

  • be owner, not the boss or employee

  • pay day everyday goal

  • don’t fool yourself!

  • ability to choose!

  • everything popular is wrong

  • retirement is not a goal, is the worst case scenario

  • less is not lazynes, pareto principle

  • be productive not busy

  • conditions are never perfect, timing sucks, do it now

  • less is more, exceed becomes the opposite

  • enjoy life is control of time

  • define nightmares, worst case scenarios

  • what we most fear is what we need to do

  • reasonable man adapts to the world

  • opposite of happiness is boreness

  • 3-6 long term dream goals, no more than that

e for elimination

  • what you do is more important than how you do it
  • what get measured gets managed
  • eliminate infficientities
  • maximum income from minimum effort/customers
  • time is wasted because there is too much time available
  • am I being productive or just active?
  • define a todo list but also a not todo list
  • stop back and forth, offer solutions or suggestions
  • information consumes attention, don’t pay attention news, low information diet
  • learn to ignore things
  • less is more
  • learn to ask
  • limit email consumption,rss. First work on your goals later check emails
  • don’t let people chitchat
  • define limit of meetings, not open-ended
  • don’t disturb your cubicle, it’s your saint place
  • empower your workers, avoid micromanaging, people is more smarter than you think
  • stablish do not disturb hours

a is for automation

  • outsource life
  • have people working doe you while you sleep
  • get a remote assistant
  • free your time to focus on bigger and better things
  • delegate boring things
  • eliminate before delegate, not aumtate something that can be eliminated,
  • outsource things we don like, fidcussions, stress
  • eliminate, automate or delegate to free up York time
  • be in the market,don’t guess what other needs
  • expert is basically to know more than the avergae, no more
  • get all websites and links from the book
  • just review reports from bank, app, status, etc,
  • remove yourself from the solution
  • business fail too many desicions or wrong desicions

l is for liberation

  • work whenever on whatever you want but get the job done
  • remote work results in more productivity
  • why not remote work? Is there any other options?
  • am I good at remote working ?
  • quantify results of work
  • quiting is better than being fired
  • formula for success doble your rate for failure
  • mistakes of ambitions and miskates or slump/sloft?
  • no mistakes ? Failure, no progress!
  • Steve jobs: remember you will die, helps disassociate from belongings

last chapter

  • small bad things haopen
  • limit time, amount of call, number of distractions?
  • measure everything, and you have control
  • don’t please everyone
  • time is the most expensive asset
  • improve your strengths not your weaknesses
  • start small thing big
  • 4 hour work week
  • be present at your beloved ones times
  • magic of thinking big, how to make millions with your ideas, the e myth revisited, Buga boundy incoming guide to get to the what?. Less is more the art of voluntary poverty, the monk and the widel, small giants,
  • Fail better