The Four-Letter Word That Makes You and Your Work Irresistible…
For ChangeThis.com By Mark Sanborn
Some years ago I wrote a book about an extraordinary individual who loves his work. My editor at the time deleted the word love every place I used it. Instead, he suggested using the phrase ‘generosity of spirit.’
‘Why not love?’ I inquired.
‘Because the word love freaks out businesspeople,’ he responded.
I couldn’t agree more (great title too!)
Do you agree? read on…
Bill Gates Important Life Lessons
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Whether he did actually say this, who knows, but the sentiment is such that it is well worth sharing anyway…
And assuming it is true, who ever shared this from the High School, I thank you.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not, and will not, learn in school.
He talks about how feel-good, politically correct, teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
If you agree, pass it on, if not, then don’t
If you can read this – Thank a teacher!
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Tim Ferris Interview – The 4-Hour Workweek
Delegate and automate to create the lifestyle you desire and deserve
The following is a transcript of Scott Allen’s interview with Tim Ferriss, which you can listen to while you read (or instead).
One of the things that Scott talks a lot about on About.com is how to try to find that balance as an entrepreneur, because there have been so many studies done on this that show that the typical entrepreneurs are working 70 and 80 hours a week.
The traditional take on this is something like, “Hey, that’s fine. We all know it’s a trade-off because we are investing that time, hopefully for the pay back in the future, or that it’s a trade-off for flexibility.” You may have to work 80 hours a week and work late into the night, but you get to take off in the middle of the day to do stuff with your kids.
You don’t have to answer to anybody or file for it a month in advance if you want to take vacation.
We would all love to get to the point of working a 4-hour workweek and a lot of us would like to just get to the point of working a 40-hour workweek, and making the living we’d like to make and having the rest of it available.
But Tim Ferriss has lived it, is living it and is sharing the good word in his book. In the interest of getting you closer to that 4-hour workweek, read/listen to Scott talking to Tim Ferriss.
As a result of listening to Tim Ferriss first time around, I turned off the automatic send/receive function on my Outlook program, which allows me to manage when emails come in and go out… a far more productive way of managing my time and head space. I don’t know about you but if an email comes in that requires action, it is very difficult to ignore it once its in your inbox! By switching off the function, you take back the control… excellent.
Tim shares this and many more tips… please listen as you’ll be pleasantly surprised as to how easy, and doable, most of these are.
Be sure to let me know which ones work for you.
Mums still bear brunt of housework…
mind you, single mothers have this 100% of the time, however…
as reported in TheAge this morning by Adele Horin…
Being a parent has become more exhausting over the past 10 years as mothers and fathers devote more hours to paid work and to looking after their children, new data shows.
But for mothers in particular, the pressures have intensified as they spend as much time on housework as they did a decade ago while fathers have cut back.
“The workload of being a parent has just got worse since 1997,” said Lyn Craig, a senior research fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW. “It’s become more and more a scramble.”
Dr Craig, with colleague Dr Killian Mullan, will present the findings at an international conference of time-use researchers, starting at the Wesley Conference Centre in Sydney today.
Using Australian Bureau of Statistics data based on time-use diaries kept by almost 2000 couples, Dr Craig has tracked the growing gap between the workload of couples with pre-school age children and couples without children; and between mothers and fathers.
The diaries show that between 1997 and 2006 everyone devoted more hours to paid work – childless men and childless women, and mothers and fathers. As well, fathers and mothers devoted more hours to child-care activities, despite their longer hours at work. And everyone reduced the time they spent on housework – everyone that is, except for mothers… read on
something has got to give, no surprise there…
we can’t be all to everyone and everything, even though we might want to, it just isn’t possible
the sooner we all start to take stock of our lives and design them in terms of how we want them to run, the better
need help to get started, let me know…
Small is Beautiful
Care of the Barefoot Investor; Scott Pape…I had to share this with you as he is making a lot of sense…
November 15, 2008
WITH world leaders running around spending billions – no, make that trillions – of dollars of our money in an effort to avert a global financial meltdown, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking your little stash of cash pales in comparison.Rubbish. I know from personal experience that as little as a thousand bucks can change your life.
Coming up with a grand shouldn’t be too much of a stretch, especially if you’ve read and implemented a few suggestions from last week’s column. And if you didn’t, readers on my Herald Sun blog this week have added dozens more tight-ass tips.
Then again, if all else fails, the PM is playing Santa Claus this year so look for your cheque under the tree.
Let’s look at half a dozen ways where money can buy happiness.
* Pay off your debts
* Get some Mojo
* Best investment this year
* Start a web-based business
* Loose change legacy
* Change someone’s lifeSo, there you have six things that can change your life (or someone else’s). Don’t buy into all the doom and gloom. It’s in dark financial days like these that fortunes are made starting with as little as a thousand bucks.
Tread your own path!
Read on to get the full detail. The detail he extrapolates the six points with is really worth the continued reading.
In terms of starting a web-based business, I am going through that very process right now, so stay tuned for updates as I go along… the continued path of my “4 Hour Work Week” journey.
TEMplate – to DESIGN your life and make Life! work
I trust this month has been all that you planned!…
Aren’t some of these Olympians teaching us a thing or two about understanding what you want and going for it! good on them I say…. speaking of which, if you want to relive Lauren Burns triumph at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, then there is a whole chapter dedicated to that very story in the “Secrets of Inspiring Women Exposed”… see below for details.
Read that article yet?
Tim Ferriss – “The 4 hour work week” … if not, please go here to do so. I have started my own 4 Hour Work Week process, so feel free to keep tabs on my progress by searching this blog using “4 hour work week journey”, and even better, if you subscribe to the RSS feed, updates will come directly to your inbox…couldn’t be easier.
As I always say, be bold and opportunistic … so, the DESIGN your life and make LIFE! work workshop has now been constructed and given great initial feedback. I can’t wait for this to be up and running as attendance will be about giving permission to entrepreneurial mothers (and fathers!) to take the time out to spend on that business idea, or that plan around combining all that you do into making Life! work.
Lets face it, many of us have been “empowered”… but now what?
This workshop will commence the journey of finding the answers, for you…
So in regards to that journey, my question to you is this… how are you going with the “The Entrepreneurial Mothers Guide to Making Life! Work”? … this workshop will be just the thing you need if you’re feeling stuck.
If you think you might have a group that would benefit from having your own workshop, then just reply to this with an email requesting same.
what to do about next School Holidays?…
why not enrich their educational experience as a result of acting on this email…
How to enrich their holistic education experiences?
By partnering with OzSee/Reho Travel/SolvePoverty to conduct a series of pilot familiarisation tours to outback Australia by a multi-cultural, multi-age group of students selected from school and Universities around the country.
Just think about, not only the short-term learning and fun, but also the long-term benefits…
The selected students will form the founder group of an expanding Australia-wide network of youth entrepreneurs, with the first step being to get a snapshot of what it is we need to be thinking about…And for the communities, they benefit economically by getting access to, and introducing visitors to our unique country…
Would you like to know more?
Tours are for 10 days, and the next one commences 25 September 2008… click here for details
(additional dates can be tailored to fit in with your holiday needs)
“Every Day is Mothers Day”…
Buy the “Secrets of Inspiring Women Exposed”, and get a 2nd one free
yes that’s right, get 2 for the price of 1
go on… buy one as a gift for that special someone in your life, and/or that talented student(s) in your life, and keep the other for yourself … to go shopping, click here
Feel free to share this with your friends, family and colleagues, so they can also do what you can do… I would also encourage you to encourage them to “subscribe” at www.theentrepreneurialmother.com.au so that they too can begin a beautiful relationship and receive such gifts into their own inbox!!
be in touch again soon…
cheers denise
P.S. Tours will be 10 days (to fit in with most school holidays) so if you want input into what the tours should look like, and when/where they should be, then please do reply and tell me all about them?
PPS If you have friends or family or fellow entrepreneurial mothers should be interested in this, simply encourage them to subscribe today @ www.theentrepreneurialmother.com.au!
How to Shorten your Work Week #7
still under “Definition”…
System Reset questions…
5. Determine the cost of these dreams and calculate your Target Monthly Income (TMI) for both timelines.
If financeable, what is the cost per month for each of the four dreams (rent, mortgage, payment plan installments, etc)?
Well… isn’t this an interesting exercise…
I have completed it manually and scanned it for your viewing pleasure, and to use as a sample. The automatic calculators and forms are available electroniclaly at www.fourhourworkweek.com.au. The process of completing both of these forms is explained in the book The 4 Hour Work Week, pg 56-59.
Once this calculation is done, you then use it to complete your Dreamline, see mine here…
As a result of doing this exercise, I know have critical first steps for each of the dreams listed. The point being that they are actionable and bring you closer to actualisation, provided I actually do them!
To quote Tim… “Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!”
One of my to do was to book the workshop a particular Internet business workshop, run by Andrew and Daryl Grant. I’m off to Sydney tonight to attend that workshop. That should certainly impact on where I want to go… can’t wait.
How to Shorten your Work Week #6
still under “Definition”…
System Reset questions…
1. what would you do if there was no way you could fail?
If you were 10 times smarter than the rest of the world?
in 6 months…
I will absolutely go for IT!, and cash would start rolling in.
I will engage the Grants completely to help me set up the internet side of the business.
(I’m attending a workshop of theirs 15-18 August in Sydney)
I will find a regional/rural go getter, with contacts in all the right places to help set up the entrepreneurial mother workshops
(one of which I have found already, Tina Nikolovski of Radiance)
I will get out into the rural communities myself, to get a first-hand handle on what’s required
(I’m assisting Mary of Sumar Events with the rural shows)
I will concentrate on the 3 key aCE to do’s – the Employer Brand Strategy, the Internet Marketing strategy (see above) and the aCE redesign with Design VIC.
in 12 months…
I will have the lifestyle design I choose.
I will not work any school holidays, and have one big adventure per year.
I will have a regular and growing monthly cash flow +.
I will have sorted OzSee out with grants and sponsorships, and have that completely outsourced or set up as a subsidiary of Reho Travel, with regular tours running in school holidays.
My daughter will be booked into the school of our choice, plus participating in her activities of choice.
Have a driver who drives us everywhere.
in 2 years…
I will have the lifestyle design I want.
My daughter attending school of choice.
I will have a regular and growing monthly cash flow ++.
I will be driven around everywhere.
not a bad place to start!…
How to Shorten your Work Week #5
continuing Definition…
questions 6 & 7…
6…
What is it costing you – financially, emotionally and physically – to postpone action?
(I did sleep on this one, and had a great answer when I woke up, but now can’t remember it… the old notebook by the bed trick required from now on I think!)
a discovery of how many non $ producing activities I have been doing, in the hope of them coming good… eventually
(but remember, hope is not a strategy)
the use of my time therefore is not focussed, and possibly therefore not as mercenary as I could be
(time is money)
I am fiercely independent, which needs to be tempered to interdependence, which I am working on
In fact, going through this exercise is about addressing such matters
7…
What are you waiting for?
absolutely nothing! bring it on (to quote my dear aCE colleague DAG)
moving down the path already (its always interesting to note how the waters part when heading in the perceived right direction)
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