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Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog. Tim is an author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, investor (FB, Uber, Twitter, 50+ more), and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (400M+ downloads)
Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify. How did they turn a $100,000 prize into $12,000,000 in transactions? In the world of magazine articles, one of my all-time favorite headlines is “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta” from the MIT Technology Review, a feature about billionaire programmer, Charles Simonyi. Charles designed Microsoft Office and is …
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The Square36 yoga mat earns $10,000-$25,000 per month for Bob Maydonik. One common challenge for readers of The 4-Hour Workweek is the creation of a “muse”: a low-maintenance business that generates significant income. Such a muse is leveraged to finance your ideal lifestyle, which we calculate precisely based on Target Monthly Income (TMI). I’ve received …
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(Photo: Royce Bair) Hello lads and lasses. This post is intended as a morsel, a sugar high and respite. Life is serious enough, so this post will require zero calories of brain power. Not to worry, of course, as we’ll be back to our regular content with the next how-to post. In the meantime, some …
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(Photo: Markal) NOTE: VOTING HAS ENDED — THANKS! Please find below the finalists for the scholarship spot to the $10,000 Opening The Kimono event (all semi-finalist videos here). There are nine contenders, listed in no particular order. Please watch the videos and vote on your single favorite at the bottom of this post. Two important …
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(Photo: Josh Liba) NOTE: VOTING HAS ENDED — THANKS! Once again, I have been BLOWN AWAY by you all. Please find below the semi-finalists for the scholarship spot to the $10,000 Opening The Kimono™ event. There are 26, listed in no particular order, as we could not narrow it down further. The case studies range …
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One common challenge for readers of The 4-Hour Workweek is the creation of a “muse”: a low-maintenance business that generates significant income. Such a muse is leveraged to finance your ideal lifestyle, which we calculate precisely based on Target Monthly Income (TMI). I’ve received hundreds of successful case studies via e-mail, and more than 1,000 …
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The “LapDawg” earns $10,000-$25,000 per month for Tonny Shin. In the last four years, I’ve received hundreds of successful case studies via e-mail, and more than 1,000 new businesses were created during a recent Shopify competition, but I’ve presented only a handful of a case studies. In this post, I’ll showcase three successful muses inspired …
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This post has been in the works for a while. One common challenge for readers of The 4-Hour Workweek is the creation of a “muse”: a low-maintenance business that generates significant income. Such a muse is leveraged to finance your ideal lifestyle, which we calculate precisely based on Target Monthly Income (TMI). In the last …
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Photo: Jeremiah Thompson Before hiring one of my assistants, Charlie, I asked him where he wanted to be in 6 and 12 months. I made him define what he wanted to have and what he wanted to do in both timeframes. At the top of the list was a mini-retirement to Thailand or South America. …
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(Photo: Alan Clark Design) [Tim’s note: This is a guest post by Ramit Sethi on two of my favorite topics: one-shot-one-kill e-mail, and creating policies so you never repeat things. Also important to note: great VAs will use templates for answering *your* email; my assistant Amy uses more than a dozen specific templates to handle …
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