working 5 hour a week ? I don't think so , tim wrote that book cause he's already has enough money, he's already rich ? what about me ? what about most of blogger ?

It’s okay if others don’t like how he thinks and disagree. It’s those folks that make it possible for others to take advantage of what most people don’t even dream about doing.

Just like the 4HWW says, it’s easier to achieve great success because of the limited competition. I count myself in the minority on this one and I’m proud of it.

Live and let live. Don’t put Tim down for not keeping a ceiling over his head. If you don’t like Tim, stay under your ceiling and be happy. To each his own.

Ferriss’s book illustrates one of its own main points, the Pareto Principle — 80% of the good ideas are in 20% of the book.

BTW, this was a funny and entertaining post (comments as well).

I actually did this by accident a few years back. I started up a lawn business in Philly, where I grew up, as a part time way to make good money. It quickly grew from 7 lawns to over 200 in the course of 18 months.
Now, I was also working my full time job 50 hours a week. I would do the lawns after work and on weekends. It got to the point where I was sleeping four hours per night and barely functioning at my day job. I had to make a HUGE decision.
I had a very reliable guy working for me at the lawn business. He and I sat down and figured out that he was making more for me than at his day job. I convinced him to quit his day job and work for me and take over the labor of the lawn business. I hired two guys to help him and off he went.
When it was just he and i doing the lawns, I was bringing home about $40 an hour for myself after paying him and taking care of the business stuff. When I increased his salary, put him in charge and stepped back, I started making over $60 an hour for myself.
Almost EVERY cent was made while I worked my day job. I couldn’t figure it out at first: I was making more and working WAAAY less ours. Then it hit me. I gave him a lot more responsibility and he loved it. He only came to me for big purchases, such as a new riding mower or truck, which was rare. He had full control over who he hired and fired. He had full control over buying smaller mowers and everything else.
I had outsourced without even knowing what outsourcing really was at that time. It’s not a bad word. He was happy and so was I. His workers were happy too. And YES, they were HIS workers.
I got sales for the business, working between 5 to 10 hours per week, and he kept all the clients happy.

I eventually got to the point where I no longer wanted anything to do with lawns and owning a business. I simply wasn’t ready …yet.
So I sold it off……….to him. He saved a ton of what I paid him and offered to buy my company. Of course I sold it to him. He bought it from me for 30% of what I would have sold it to anyone else. Why? Because we built a trust between us. I knew that he would take care of the baby I had started. I knew that he would nurture it. He was a great friend. He was the one who took the burden off my back for several years. He worked long hours without complaint.

So to anyone on here who has any negative thoughts about T4HWW, I say take some time and figure out what it is you want. Ferriss isn’t a miracle worker. He simply shows you that you have options other than doing what society deems normal.

Be well.

Mike Suermann Jr

I think the charge is a little unfair. and I think also that the bloggers friend has failed to realise that it is unwise to do anything other than cherry-pick with books like this. I have no doubt that this works for Timothy, but I am equally sure that it will not work for most of mankind.

First of all, if the bloggers friend has a business, this will not work. But if he is running a “muse” then that could work. Timothy has the right sort of business that does not need his involvement so that could well work. I have researched the book and there are no actual lies in it. Where people will, not may, come unstuck, is if they try to apply any of the suggestions to areas of life which differs strongly from the authors.

A lot of my life has been based on a lot of the ideas that the author talks about. I have had businesses or “muses” that have taken care fo themselves and I have delegated freely. If you read “The One Minute Manager meets the monkey” this shows you how to employ low paid staff and grow them into good executives. And I have travelled the world, spending at least six years of my time in different countroes over my 69 years of life.

So my suggestion to all is to read the book and cherry-pick the ideas you can apply. In my case there has been one very good idea. I know read my email once a day and people gte the auto-responder asking them to phone me if the matter is important. Nobody ever phones and they are happy to wait.

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