The book offers practical advice on reducing workload and outsourcing tasks to free up time, emphasizing the importance of valuing time as a scarce resource. The author provides case studies and tools to help readers identify and eliminate unproductive activities.
The book provides a comprehensive guide on how to reduce workload and outsource tasks to free up time. The author emphasizes the importance of recognizing time as a valuable resource and offers practical tools like Rescuetime.com to track time spent on various activities. The book includes case studies of individuals who have successfully reduced their work hours and provides tips on identifying and eliminating unproductive activities. The author also discusses the concept of outsourcing tasks to local individuals or services, such as using Craigslist or AskSunday, to handle errands and other time-consuming tasks. Overall, the book offers a practical and achievable approach to achieving a more balanced and fulfilling lifestyle.
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It is possible. The goal isn't to get everyone necessarily to four hours, but to reduce workload, in most cases by 20, 30, 40 percent.
Recognizing that in a digital world, there are three types of currencies. There's time, income and mobility, and time is most valuable of those three.
Think of it more like off-choring. So instead of off-shoring it would be off-choring, meaning - I actually use Craigslist, I would say, Craigslist.org for probably 40 percent of the activities I outsource because they're local things, like getting groceries, picking up dry cleaning, etc.