Design Your Own 4-Hour Work Week Lifestyle
Utilize These Lifestyle Design Resources to Create Your Own 4-Hour Work Week and the Life You've Always Wanted to Live
As a Gen X parent with preschool aged children and a husband set to retire with a very modest retirement income in five years, I can't think of a better time to put Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week principles to use and design the lifestyle I would like my family to have.
Following are some of the great resources I've found for lifestyle design. No matter your age or the number of family members depending on you, you don't have to give in to the rat race. You can create the lifestyle you want.
Tim Ferriss' Experiments in Lifestyle Design Blog
This is where it all started. Tim Ferriss' is a life hacker (not to be confused with a computer hacker). He takes tasks and accomplishments that take most people a lifetime to do and he hacks them down to their bare essentials to accomplish them in a fraction of the time. He shows you how to do this in his blogs.
Four-Hour Work Week Reader Resources
This website is only accessible by readers of The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris. The good news is you do not have to buy the book for access. Just borrow it from your local library.
John Bardos is a Canadian, living in Japan. He and his wife are working on a one-year plan to pack up and leave Japan. They are in their forties, not rich and don't have a reliable source of income for the future. They believe, like many others, that the Jet Set lifestyle is no longer reserved for the rich and famous and within the grasp of anyone willing to embrace adventure and break from dated definitions of how we are supposed to work and live.
The Life Design Project (LDP) is written by Rob, his friends, and other people he meets along the way during his lifestyle design testing. Rob intends to "empirically test" theories like those found in Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week and determine if they are real or hype.
Untemplater is brought to us by a small group of twenty-somethings who, while burdened with student loans and a few credit cards are yet unburdened by mortgages and a lifetime of spending on all the trappings of adulthood that forty-somethings find themselves buried under. They believe the world is their oyster and all things are possible. We can learn much from them. No matter how old we are, or believe we are, the world can always be our oyster if we put forth the effort and attitude necessary.
Mom and Dad are in their early fifties and their daughter is 5. These three amigos have been traveling the world since 2006 and have no intention of stopping now. They homeschool for most of the year except when they set up a winter base, such as the one they have had in southern Spain where their daughter enjoys immersion in the local school. They stay within a very low budget for world travelers and share much of what they do and how they do it on their blog.
The Location Independent Network
The Location Independent Network comprises two main sections: Location Independent Professionals and Location Independent Parents. Location Independent Professionals is a site those wanting to live and work anywhere they like from "home, a coffee shop down the road or a beach halfway around the world". Location Independent Parents is a site for parents who wish to do much the same thing only with children. Issues such as homeschooling, socialization, keeping in touch with family back home and more are addressed here.
These are just a few of the better resources I've found on lifestyle design that prove that no matter what your age or occupation, if you want to design a location independent lifestyle like Tim Ferriss, it can most certainly be done.
Published by Lisa Thibault Pietsch
Lisa Pietsch has an A.S. in Business Management from the University of Maine and studied Government & History at the University of Great Falls. When she isn't writing novels, she is working on SAXtreme Mag... View profile
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Post a CommentInteresting ideas.