How I Implemented The 4-Hour Workweek Methodology And Doubled My Results

1. According to Tim Ferriss, we should make four major steps to make the transition towards the 4-hour workweek.
2. DEAL is the name of this system, meaning Definition, Elimination, Automation, and Liberation.

Define your goal in this life and estimate its cost. In this stage, you will envision the fundamentals of your entirely new lifestyle. Then, you’ll add the remaining three ingredients.

1. What do you need to eliminate? Your old mindset about time management.
2. Once you define your goal and you understand how much money you need to make it happen, you’ll find the source of that income. The source won’t be the work in the office.
3. Remember: your goal is not building a multimillion-dollar empire. It’s about living a stress-free life that lets you experience the most of it.

1. Ferriss recommends techniques for cultivating selective ignorance.
2. You won’t be spending time on processing information you don’t need.
3. You’ll start ignoring things that are not important.
4. You’ll learn how to value your time .
5. Experts also recommend that changing one’s morning drill can improve your day’s productivity.
6. By following an efficient routine in the morning, it can help save entrepreneurs and remote workers more hours.

1. For this part, the author teaches you how to put cash flow on autopilot.
2. Implementing the previous two steps should provide you with a stable income and tons of free time.
3. What do you do with it? In other words, you get to the tricky What’s Next? stage.
4. Tim Ferriss suggests traveling.

1. “The mobile manifesto for the globally inclined” – that’s how Tim Ferriss defines liberation.
2. He suggests a concept of mini retirements.
3. The lifestyle of mobility is not about cheap travel. That can get boring.
4. The author recommends you to start thinking about more important things, such as the purpose you have in this life and the value you can bring to other people.

1. According to the Pareto Principle, recommended by Tim Ferriss himself, roughly 20% of your efforts result with roughly 80% of the effects.
2. By doing 20% of the work you’re doing now (of course, you’ll wisely choose those 20%), you’ll achieve 80% of the results you’re reaching at the moment. 

1. This is another important aspect of the decluttering process.
2. Ferriss recommends making the task lists that keep you on track and create a distraction-blocking mindset.
3. He also asks us to set limits on the information we process. If I need to read information about hurricane Irma, I’ll do it after my work is done and I’ll do it at one go. I will not check the news 50 times today, reading the same thing from dozens of different sources.