Comments on: Review – The 4-Hour Workweek http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/ Abundant Living through the Law of Attraction Fri, 21 May 2010 06:49:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: barb http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/comment-page-1/#comment-99 barb Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:43:35 +0000 http://barbthelifecoach.com/?p=58#comment-99 I sure did read it. I don't see it as taking advantage of people. When we pay another person to do a job, they have money to purchase a house, food, pay for a child's education, etc. In the Chapters about outsourcing, he suggests using Canadian or U.S. workers for some jobs. How will developing nations develop without capital? The $4-$6 an hour paid to a worker in India who is going to research an article or prepare a report goes a very long way in that country. I highly recommend reading the book before casting judgment. We are a global economy. Raising the bottom can and will happen. I sure did read it. I don’t see it as taking advantage of people. When we pay another person to do a job, they have money to purchase a house, food, pay for a child’s education, etc. In the Chapters about outsourcing, he suggests using Canadian or U.S. workers for some jobs. How will developing nations develop without capital? The $4-$6 an hour paid to a worker in India who is going to research an article or prepare a report goes a very long way in that country. I highly recommend reading the book before casting judgment. We are a global economy. Raising the bottom can and will happen.

]]> By: barb http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/comment-page-1/#comment-97 barb Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:29:15 +0000 http://barbthelifecoach.com/?p=58#comment-97 I found his suggestions and the resources offered quite useful. Much of it is about cutting things out of your life that aren't helping you reach your goals. Success does create envy. Top sales associates are usually not very well-liked among the less motivated. People who do more, do it better, or get more attention, are sometimes shunned by others who aren't as motivated. I found his suggestions and the resources offered quite useful. Much of it is about cutting things out of your life that aren’t helping you reach your goals. Success does create envy. Top sales associates are usually not very well-liked among the less motivated. People who do more, do it better, or get more attention, are sometimes shunned by others who aren’t as motivated.

]]> By: barb http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/comment-page-1/#comment-96 barb Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:25:32 +0000 http://barbthelifecoach.com/?p=58#comment-96 The ideas is Ferris' books are useful, even if we only implement a couple of them. I like the idea of an information diet, especially when we are barraged by so much every day. He even mentions asking other people about the news, which serves a secondary purpose of making the other person feel good because s/he can catch you up on things. He also doesn't suggest immediately quitting a job. The value of the book is in questioning assumptions about work. How much of work is desk-warming, answering emails and attending meetings that stretch on with very little being accomplished? If you could do your job in 30 hours or 20 hours and still get paid the same amount (and get more done), wouldn't you? The ideas is Ferris’ books are useful, even if we only implement a couple of them. I like the idea of an information diet, especially when we are barraged by so much every day. He even mentions asking other people about the news, which serves a secondary purpose of making the other person feel good because s/he can catch you up on things. He also doesn’t suggest immediately quitting a job. The value of the book is in questioning assumptions about work. How much of work is desk-warming, answering emails and attending meetings that stretch on with very little being accomplished? If you could do your job in 30 hours or 20 hours and still get paid the same amount (and get more done), wouldn’t you?

]]> By: EDD http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/comment-page-1/#comment-92 EDD Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:34:42 +0000 http://barbthelifecoach.com/?p=58#comment-92 This also reminds me a lot of a friend who swore by rich dad poor dad...All he had to do was aquire high value assetts and....never mind he had the attention span of a gnat. And had no money for assets, and blew his credit rating by 26. But he swore by it...I just tuned him out, yada yada, as I had work to do. This also reminds me a lot of a friend who swore by rich dad poor dad…All he had to do was aquire high value assetts and….never mind he had the attention span of a gnat. And had no money for assets, and blew his credit rating by 26.

But he swore by it…I just tuned him out, yada yada, as I had work to do.

]]> By: Ed Baker http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Ed Baker Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:59:02 +0000 http://barbthelifecoach.com/?p=58#comment-85 Googling Tim Ferris produces about 387,000 links. Googling-- Tim Ferris Hate produces 749,000 hits. Of course people are just jealous that a sports drink executive got to be on Regis and Kathy Lee as a Tango Master because as he says he can master anything he sets his awesome, born wealthy, mind to. What a putz. And a best-seller... To stop being all negatory I'd reccomend, for men, Seneca the Younger, a Stoic and agnostic by philosophical choice. Still he had to deal with tragedy again and again in his life--and he covers how he survived and it wasn't exploiting 3rd world poverty. Googling Tim Ferris produces about 387,000 links. Googling– Tim Ferris Hate produces 749,000 hits. Of course people are just jealous that a sports drink executive got to be on Regis and Kathy Lee as a Tango Master because as he says he can master anything he sets his awesome, born wealthy, mind to. What a putz. And a best-seller…

To stop being all negatory I’d reccomend, for men, Seneca the Younger, a Stoic and agnostic by philosophical choice. Still he had to deal with tragedy again and again in his life–and he covers how he survived and it wasn’t exploiting 3rd world poverty.

]]> By: EDD http://barbthelifecoach.com/2010/03/review-the-4-hour-workweek/comment-page-1/#comment-83 EDD Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:02:32 +0000 http://barbthelifecoach.com/?p=58#comment-83 Did you actually read this? "take advantage of 3rd world pay scales and first world guilt to get rich" Quite the concept. Did you actually read this? “take advantage of 3rd world pay scales and first world guilt to get rich” Quite the concept.

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