Introducing the Four-Hour Work Week

For years, I’ve been preaching that when you own your own business, you can structure it to make your life easier and a lot more pleasurable. To give you an example, when I went into my first business, I made it a goal to go fishing every Wednesday throughout the summer. I did it. It was wonderful. I also had that goal to leave the office by 3:00 on Fridays. That was wonderful too. I have since stopped working on Friday altogether.

Now, there’s no way you could ever do that working for someone else.

However, I might have come across someone who has structured his business to suit his lifestyle in the ultimate way. He is Timothy Ferriss, who runs a million-dollar business in just four hours a week. He has even published a book about it, The 4-Hour Workweek. He used to work a full week, but through innovation, automation, rigid scheduling and outsourcing, he has cut his week down to four hours.

To read a CNN Business article about how he structured his business, CLICK HERE.

I am not certain this is a realistic scenario for everyone. However, my point is that owning a business is really the only way that you can ever realistically tailor your life to fit your schedule.

When you work for someone else, you’re on their clock. Buy a good business, and you set the time. Incidentally, the students who have taken my The Art of Buying a Business Course are telling me about the renewed sense of control and freedom they enjoy in their lives. I am not sure if any of them work just four hours a week. But I’ll ask - and let you know in a future post on this blog. I can also tell you that whatever hours you will work when you’re the boss will be infinitely more enjoyable that what you did as an employee.