This week I have bought the book ‘The four hour working week’ by Tim Ferriss.

 

I can accredit this book for really getting my act into gear in terms of time management now and the projects that im doing. If I thought I was doing OK with some aspects of my life, these concepts really places things into perspective!

 

This is a guy that strips his daily tasks away like an onion, analyses them and only focuses on the ones that will get you the greatest output.

 

He doesn’t even bother with newspapers and TV as he expects if it is worth knowing, he will hear it through the grapevine anyway. You can apply this to your job hunting and when you get that job you have always craved for.

 

Tim says:

‘Most information is time consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence’

 

He justifies that in order to get the same output from lower input that you have to cut out all the ‘weeds’ from your garden. You have to let loose all the clients that have been giving you trouble and that are time wasters. You have to stop doing irrelevant things just to stay ‘busy’. You have to apply the 80/20 rule in that 80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your clientele.

 

Here are the essential time management skills:

1. Being selective and doing less is the path of the productive
2. Identify what pulls most weight
3. Compile this list of tasks the evening before work the next day
4. Give these tasks short deadlines(give yourself a week to achieve your project NOT a month)

 

In order to start ask yourself:

1. Am I being productive or just active?
2. Am I inventing things to do the unimportant?

 

 

I have been currently testing myself with these time saving concepts with my projects and things are going better than ever.

 

Check out the 4 hour work week book at www.fourhourworkweek.com