Paring down–clothes

I started paring down my clothes tonight–this was the easy part as I was essentially cutting all of the “fat” out of my wardrobe. Anything that was damaged, worn out or otherwise unsalvagable went in the trash. Everything that I hadn’t worn in at least a year, stuff that didn’t fit, and stuff […]

Too much stuff–the road to a minimalist life

Today we’ll take a bit of a detour away from 4HWW and talk about stuff. Actually, the concept of “simple abundance” is at the heart of Ferriss’ book though he doesn’t go into much detail about “decluttering” your worldly possessions. Near the beginning of the book when he enumerates the “Rules that change the […]

Staying positive around negative people

The excellent Zen Habits blog has a big post today about staying positive in the face of negative opposition. Basically, its a “how to” about eliminating the doubts that sabotage your dreams and goals:
Why? Because a doubt, as innocuous as it may seem at first, has a way of creeping its way into your […]

The low information diet….

I started the “process of elimination” by going on what Ferriss calls “The Low Information Diet”. I started this “diet” a couple of days after finishing the book and I’m still on it.
Ever since I was a teenager I’ve been an information junkie. Prior to my “diet” I’d read at least 4 newspapers […]

Is Time Management a Myth?

I used to obsess about how much I was or wasn’t getting done in a day. I blamed most of my personal and professional problems on the one-two punch of disorganization and poor time management. Obviously organization is, in theory, a component of time management. Most of the time management books I’ve […]

More about me, specifically more about “why now?”

In the first entry on this blog I posed the question “why me and why now?”. I realized reading back over it that I only answered half of the question. So since you know my motivations for changing my personal life, I’ll give you some background about the personal context.
The impact […]

About the book…

Obviously I was impressed with “The 4-Hour Work Week” or I wouldn’t have decided to re-engineer my life based on its concepts. I wanted to give some more background on how I came to read the book, and the incredible impact it had on me.
As an aside, I’ll strongly suggest that you […]

The beginning…

This blog will chronicle my efforts to re-design my lifestyle following the blueprint of Tim Ferriss’ book “The 4-Hour Work Week”. I’ll also be adding other sources to provide a blueprint for my new professional efforts and lifestyle changes. One such source will be another excellent blog devoted to “simple productivity” called Zen […]