The 4 hour week - Timothy Ferriss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpRja0-vrU
This is a great video - Timothy Ferriss summarises his ideas about how to save time.

My first idea after seeing his video, is to save time by not reading his book. The ideas are all there on the video, everything else is padding. I wish every self help book would provide such a good summary. It is all you need! you don't need to be drawn in to buying the book.

I am going to sell an e-book called 'The last impulse buy you ever make' . It will explain this rule, don't buy the book, read the back cover. All the information ebooks is freely available on the Internet a year after it has been published! Once enough copies have been sold, people put the information on their websites for free and move onto the next great idea.

I read a ten word review which said "Only Tim Ferriss can work a four hour week" which is a brilliant. Nonetheless even if we cannot be Tim Ferriss we can learn from his ideas, especially those in the video, which to you save time, I have summarised below.

1)The 80:20 rule, most of your effective work is done in 20% of your time - work out which it is and do more of the effective stuff.
2) We only work 40 hours a week because we are conditioned to do so
3) Pay other people to do things for you, if you can pay them less per hour than you can earn in an hour
4) Only look at emails twice a day (twice a day?? twice a week might be more sensible)
5) Find out what you are good at and concentrate on it, and don't spend time on what you are bad at
6) Only look at essentials, catch up on what you need to know, rather than try and find out about everything -
I liked that one, - "only look at what you need to know". This of course will narrow peoples' thinking, as everyone gets more and more focussed on less and less. I suppose its no worse than getting less and less focussed on more and more. But it doesn't leave time for reading blogs, let alone writing them!
7) Get rid of everything unnecessary in your life -

All of which takes me back to The Deep Tidy "Have nothing in your life that is not either useful or Beautiful" - William Morris