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 […]