You may have read the Tim Ferriss book about working only four hours a week. If you are just getting started writing an eBook, setting up your blog, and building your online business, don’t count on a week like that anytime soon.
This weekend I worked about 8 hours each day. I could have taken the weekend off, but my business would have reflected that in the coming weeks. Instead, I was very productive throughout the past two days, and wrote 6 new articles, trained a new assistant, posted to several of my other blogs, updated a new website I am working on, and recorded new audio for my sales letter. Oh, yes, and I also tweeted two articles on Twitter in between each of these activities. The result will be more new business in the coming weeks and months.
Is every weekend like this? No, of course not. Last weekend I was in Phoenix for 4 days for a live event, and last month I spent 10 days in China. But a 4 hour work week? At this pount that doesn’t even sound like something that would be appealing to me. I am passionate about what I am doing online. I am a mentor, helping others with their online writing and technology. Find something you love and you will never work another hour in your life.
More from my site
Online Writing Success – Building Credibility With Your Writing
Technology Training – Videos To Help You Build Your Online Business
Technology Tip – Forwarding And Masking An Affiliate Domain
Recession-Proof Your Life By Writing An eBook And Building An Online Business
Blogging – Part Of A Powerful Online Writing Strategy
Article Writing And Marketing To Build Your Online Writing Empire
Dear Connie,
Well finally! Someone is saying what I’ve always felt about the whole 4 hour work week deal. First of all, if you are running a business that has a chance of being successful at all, that business is just not going to happen if you only devote 4 hours a week to developing it.
But second and more to the point, I absolutely love my work. It’s what gives meaning and passion and juice to my life. If I only worked 4 hours a week I would miss it and feel deprived of the very thing that gives me such tremendous joy, satisfaction and fulfillment.
Of course I also love taking time to travel and to be in nature and play and spend time with my husband, friends and family.
But I have long been puzzled by certain marketing gurus who on the one hand are always going on about how great their work is while at the same time constantly trying to find ways to do less and less of it! That level of cognitive dissonance made my head hurt and also made me more than a little suspicious about their real motives!
So thanks for the honesty and down to earth idealism of your post. It is greatly appreciated!
I really would like to create an income stream through my work and the internet. I will be following you closely. Many thanks.
This is a great point Connie. A little dose of reality of the hard work involved yet with the promise of work that brings satisfaction.
What you say is so true! If you do work you love, you will never work another day in your life! I found that to be true as a neuromuscular massage therapist and now, helping people as The Pain Relief Coach, I find it to be true on even a broader level. If only everyone could figure out what their passion is, and do it, we all would benefit.