15 7 / 2010
Be, Do, Have The 4 hour Workweek
Started reading Timothy Ferriss’s The 4 Hour Workweek since it was highly recommended to me ironically by my 2 friends are probably the most workaholics and anti-4 hour work week guys I know. When I first came to Vietnam 2 and half years ago… than taking VC funding it changed to 40 years worth of work into 4 years time. What a difference.
I also believe in the Be, Do, Have philosophy that he also uses as the basis in his ‘Dreamline’ concept. Being, Doing, Having is this:
If you want to “be” x (we’ll use ‘web savvy’ as an example), then you start ‘doing’ all the things that ‘web savvy’ people do… go to web industry mixers, read all the industry blogs, etc.- soon, you’ll start ‘having’ the things that all the ‘web savvy’ people have.
His Dreamline method is very cool in that it provides you method to figure our how you’re going to get to your dream and how much per month will it cost you to do so. Here’s mine:
I only need to make $4,835 a month to live my ‘ideal’ living of having better model agency than I have now, a Vespa, cool threads, custom furniture, $1 million nest egg at retirement. I train jiu jitsu for free, I just need to show up. To get better at Game Theory and Negotiation, I’ve been learning and going over open courses from Yale, Harvard, Standford and MIT (which is all free and online). To improve my writing; I try blogging once a week and my lazy sticking point has been the Vietnamese part; which I just need to ask for help. Last year, I was pretty consistent on being able to fly out of country every other month. This year, I want to travel around inside Vietnam more. At $4,835 burn rate; my lifestyle would continue to be better than my contemporaries living in the States making twice or even triple as much as me.
But the tricky part is making the $4,835 without working more than 4 hours in a week while at the beach…
