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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 goodies: the “Kimono” winners and a $1,000 travel voucher giveaway.
KIMONO SPOTS
Congratulations, after much tallying and consideration, to the winners of the $10,000 spots to the “Opening the Kimono” event! Please keep an eye on your inbox for follow-up details:
– Sheila McCarthy (votes)
– Jacqueline Biggs (“wild card” views)
First, sincere thanks to all who submitted video case studies, even those who re-submitted old videos and therefore weren’t eligible. Second, HUGE thanks to Dustin “America’s Trainer to the Moms” Maher for making the “wild card” scholarship possible — you rock!
Three honorable mentions for the “wild card” seat are below (out of dozens of great videos), and one includes a pic of me drunk at my London book launch. Oh, Internet, you hurt so good T_T
Two of them highlight post-4-Hour Workweek (now 2,172 reviews!) travel adventures:
$1,000 TRAVELOCITY TRAVEL VOUCHER — GIVEAWAY DETAILS
Alright, moving on…
I wanted to have some fun and get people traveling. “But I can’t travel… it costs too much!” is a common refrain. Partnering with a new start-up called PunchTab, I wanted to remove this barrier.
Here’s how it will work, as PunchTab explains:
Entering the giveaway is simple and takes only 30 seconds. Register by connecting to the giveaway widget below using Facebook. For each step you complete, you’ll earn a giveaway entry:
1. Like this blog post by clicking on the Facebook Like button (+1 entry).
2. Become a fan of Tim Ferriss on Facebook (+1 entry).
3. Leave a comment telling me where you’ll go and what you’ll do there (+1 entry).
4. Tweet about the giveaway (+1 entry).
5. Unlimited bonus entries by pasting your invite link everywhere you can. For example:
– For every friend who clicks the invite link you Tweeted in step 4, you’ll earn +1 entries.
– For every friend who then joins the giveaway, you’ll earn +5 entries.
Giveaway ends June 30, 2011 at midnight PST. Open to residents of North America.
Enjoy! Attack! Discuss!
https://www.punchtab.com/mast/362/raffle.js
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Travel voucher would be used to travel to ANTARCTICA via Chile and to achieve personal goal of visiting all Seven Continents.
Would take and wear for photos Tevas that have been to all other continents, including first time I left the country to backpack Europe 12 years ago. 🙂
I would continue on as I always do…dreaming big and following through. The plans that are in motion that this would assist with would be: going to Australia to discover the true meaning of partnership and surrendering to vulnerability, Spiritual venture in Bali, business venture/ sailing the Med. (again) in Spain… for starters… 🙂 would trade the $ money for a coffee with Tim any day…Spain or Bali Tim?
I’ll travel to Ko Phi Phi Island and open a boutique wine/coffee/tobacco bar beside the beach.
I would put it towards my trip to Costa Rica
i would take my wife somewhere nice and spend time with her so she could relax. She takes care of our family and is very deserving of it.
I’d go to India to celebrate getting my PhD & be able to experience the culture I wrote my dissertation on!
I would go to Spain. Ibiza would have to be my first stop haha. I am looking for a extended break to clear my mind and leave this work,work,work attitude behind and to start using my valuable time more efficiently by starting a self automated business. Theres too many places and experiences in this world to miss out on!
Hi Tim. If I am the lucky winner, I will use it to visit my husband-to-be in Peru when he graduates from the university and we will make sure to celebrate right! 🙂 We will visit the Magic Fountains (Circuito Mágico del Agua) in Lima; my favorite town, Moquegua; and everything in-between!
Hola Tim !! soy peruano y mi prometida es texana, amo mucho a ella, es mi osita y quiero darle una sorpresa, y conocer el curioso estado de Texas !! wow !! Who said !!
I’d travel to Costa Rica to spend some time both in the jungle and on the coast.
Wow. Those videos were exactly the shot in the arm that I needed at this moment. Just quit the job back in January to start my own 4HWW and right now I’m stuck in the plateau of despair. Keep grinding away though.
If I win the contest I will probably give my ticket to my mother. She just beat breast cancer at the age of 46 and she has always wanted to go to the UK and see all royal family digs. So, I’ll give her the ticket and take her to see all that is the royal palace. Kinda cheesy but if it is what you want it is what you want. Excellent post. Truly, this was just what I needed to get back in the saddle. Thanks Tim. I can’t thank you enough.
I would head to Zimbabwe with an ODP of $200 they need our assistance.
Great contest. Keep inspiring!
When I win I will go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am looking forward to photographing the mountains, and the beaches there!
I’d go to Laos, and tube down a river for hours and hours, then hop on a motorcycle and drive through the countryside!
if I win the $1000 travel voucher I will use it to go to Vancouver BC next winter to do some backcountry snowboarding!
Tim, your blog is approaching Never-neverland. The comments section constant gushing and fawning is getting hard to take.
Its okay to be criticized, and even to include these comments!
Killer Competition. I would definitely use it to visit my sister and hike the high deserts of Arizona.
Buenos Aires, because it looks beautiful and I recall you saying it’s a great bargain . . . Plus I’ve been trying to learn spanish for the past year for a trip to a Central/South American country
Ill go to new york city so I can go to a yankees game
I’d use the voucher to help pay for my honeymoon with my amazing fiancee!
My mom moved to the U.S. from Colombia when she was 15. Being too scared, she never went back. I want to book me and her a trip she can’t refuse.
Re: Where I’d go for the $1,000 TRAVELOCITY TRAVEL VOUCHER…While I absolutely love to travel anywhere, I would do just the opposite with it: I would use it as a scholarship to help someone from another, lesser developed country come visit the United States to broaden their experience of the world and further their education. I would host them and make it a great cultural exchange. … Thanks for this opportunity Tim and thank you for constantly pushing all of us to think differently and to improve the world, our lives, and the lives of those around us. cheers!
I want to go to Bangladesh to see my parents and relatives 🙂
I would go meet as many of the wonderful associates I have met on Facebook and blog about it!! England, Australia, Germany, Brazil and lots of places in the US too!
I’ve seen a lot of Asia and Europe so I’m thinking Egypt and Dubai? I don’t know anyone who can say they have wakeboarded on the Nile so if there is a safe enough part, I’m game. I’ve always wanted to see the pyramids and maybe check out the indoor snowboarding in dubai.
Brazil could be next as well. Start in the South, find a few supermodelesque girls then head to the beaches around Salvador…maybe wakeboard on the Amazon while I’m there ; )
I would use it to start my circumnavigation of the earth (with stops along the way)
I’d be hopping a plane to Greece, eating lamb, soaking up sun and pondering my passive income!
I’d go to Buenos Aires!
I’m co-founding a startup in Vietnam and will be working over there most of this fall, based in Ho Chi Minh City. If I win the Travelocity voucher, I would use it to see the country. I’d take short trips all over Vietnam and Cambodia. I’d see the Mekong Delta, Phu Quoc Island, Angkor Wat, Sapa, Hoi An, Halong Bay, Hanoi, and Danang. And while I was at it, I’d drink snake-blood wine, ride an elephant, DJ at a club, get a massage, sleep over with a family of villagers, and generally speaking, rock the house.
Mission trip to serve with my friends in Venezuela. See the rainforest…meet the people…leave any $$$s left over for my friends’ amazing mission. Thank you!
I would go to Australia, I have never been off the continent, and traveling really scares me, but I want to conquer that fear. so I would go there and open the posibilities. I would love to see the other side of the world!
Hey Tim, Love the continued commitment to sharing and teaching as a way to bring more into your sphere. That is the way it should be with more things.
I would love to use this gift to go with my Girlfriend to Scotland to Hike the Western Coastal and Highland trails. Starting the planning and dreaming phases already so this would be a HUGE boost in the process.
I Hope all is well with you.
With Feeling,
Andrew
I would take a trip to Australia to go kitesurfing with dolphins 🙂
If the contest is about travelling the world, it’s a shame entry is limited to those living in one part of it!
I agree! 🙁
I would take my baby son and my wife to Angkor Wat to watch the sun come up, and finally committ to competing in a foreign K1 or Thai Boxing competition.
If I win I will use it towards going to Thailand to train parkour with some of the best!
After not being home for over 6 months, I would go back to visit my family and my new niece who is supposed to be arriving today!!
I would take my family to Russia so my wife can visit her family and my children can meet their Russian relatives.
I would take my mom and the kids to myrtle beach so we could relax and play in the sand.
I would head back to Singapore with my fiancee to see my nephew on his first birthday. I would spend my time getting to know him for the first time and feed my fiancee all the wonderful food I miss so much!
I wanna travel to California and Hawaii with my kids
Situation: I am competing in an Olympic Bobsled Combine in August.
Truth: Flights are killer in the summer!
Hope: A Travelocity voucher to allow me the funds to compete in Lake Placid, NY.
Thanks: Thank you (!!)
I will go to Australia to study abroad and surf!
I would go back to Australia. I studied abroad there last year and I just fell in love with the place and the people I met. I would like to go back there to live, work, and see the places I didn’t get around to seeing. Hopefully I can make this a permanent change in location.
My trip will be a trekking and camping adventure in the Amazon Rainforest. I cannot imagine a more magical experience of biodiversity.
The other thing I hope for because of Tim’s inspiration is that we all take the trips we’ve described on these posts regardless of who wins this contest.
Cheers All
Martin
I will take my wife to Hawaii and we will have fun.
I would go to Thailand and learn how to surf with Caleb 🙂
I’m going to island hop Greece and just soak up life.
I’ll go visit my oldest sis in Alberta!
I would for sure go visit my family in Florida. After that, I guess I would go to California to visit the college that interests me the most.
Cuba! Can you get me in too?
If we win the giveaway we will be using the gift card to go visit my wife’s family in Kenya who we have not seen in over three years. Plane tickets are so expensive and with a new baby (now 1 yr old) we had to devote our funds to other endeavors. This would be great.
Thanks for the possibility.
I would go to Argentina and experience true Argentine tango and have some of the amazing beef I hear so much about.
Definitely Colombia!!! Im due for a holiday….
If I had the opportunity, I would go to Stockholm, because to me it is a city full of innovation and cutting-edge arts. Being able to see and learn from all of the unique and amazing things in the city would really be inspiring to me.
I will go to Glasgow, Scotland! I would spend 10-14 days there and immerse myself into the culture as a trial run for my multi-month trip to somewhere in Europe next May!
I’d be headed to Portland with my daughter to go to Powell’s and tour college campuses!
I’d go to Bishop, California or Hueco Tanks, Texas for a sweet rock climbing trip!
Thought about this hard…I’d probably use the coupon towards a flight to Spain and attempt some of it’s famous rock climbing routes ( the more rudimentary ones!), eat my way through it’s famous cured meats, backpack my way to France, through Switzerland, and then to Italy. Being a girl would never stop me from eating my way through Europe!
I will go to Broome, Western Australia (most AMAZING place), with my husband for our honeymoon, we get married in January, we will drink cocktails on the beach and eat decadently every day!
Thanks for sharing my video, Tim! Hopefully, next year I’ll finally submit a video on time, but I’m more than happy sharing my story with other people!
After reading the four hour body I wanted to see if I could get an answer for a rare condition for my wonderfully selfless mum. She suffers from Morphea scleroderma (an auto Immune condition) but has not found anything that will help her discomfort. Does anyone know someone with this and if there is something that could help her? I would be eternally grateful to anyone who can shine more light on this for us. Thanks alot, Ben
Tim,
I’m pretty sure its too late to enter, but I would love to travel around south america.
On an unrelated side note, I’ve seen you mention the article, “1,000 true fans” over the past couple of years in your blog. Just wondering if you’ve read the follow up article by KK….
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/the_stars_of_10.php
Enjoy!
Tim
Hi Tim
I cant wait for the next video
dont be lazy maan
Sorry I missed this! I guess Vietnam and Cambodia will have to wait a few months:-)
Have an awesome week, Tim!
Josip
if I would be so lucky to win I would go to ireland and kiss the blarney stone and drink many delicious beers.
I would love to go to Spain and travel all around the country, after all that is “La Madre Patria” for me 😉 or Brazil for the World Cup…I’m even trying to learn portuguese 😀
Has the winner of the $1k travel voucher been selected yet? Thanks.
I’d get a flight to Mexico and cycle the length of South America with my good lady, ending up gazing at the glaciers in Pattagonia. My trusty Spesh Cyclo-Cross is panniered up and ready, but the route isn’t. Wing it, that’s what I always say. I’m going anyway, but you could help me get there faster… 😉
Cheers!
I would go to South America and travel all over the continent. I especially want to go to Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina. I want to learn about organic farming, how to make wine in Argentina, and explore the different cultures and food.
I’d simply go back to visit my aging mother. Its been many years, and I thing I’d regret if I did not. But from Osaka, Japan to Philadelphia is a long, costly haul…
I love to travel and i always got discount in traveling because of coupons.
i want to use this voucher. maybe goin’ to spain or hawaii will do. of course with my loved ones.
My Fiance works too hard and needs a break. I would take him to Pai in Thailand so he can take a break, eat better, drink Kombucha, ride motorcycles through the hills and REST. Failing that, I would at least take him to Mexico (cheaper shorter flights making better use of vacation time).
Great post! I’d definitely love to visit Japan!