Questions to Overcome Fear

1. Quitting is not permanent: It’s always possible to pick up your chosen career path with a different company at a later date.
2. You will be able to pay the bills: You can get a new stream of income before you quit your job or eliminate most of your expe...

To live a free life Tim Ferriss proposes working remotely. He advocated it before it was cool. His advice: 

• Practice environment-free productivity. Attempt to work for two hours in a cafe before proposing a remote trial.
• Quantify current productivity.

Tim Ferriss outlines a process for escaping the 9-to-5 & living a fulfilling life:

• Define your ideal lifestyle. What do you want your life to look like? Probably it's not about being rich but sick at an old age.
• Eliminate the unnecessary. Ident...

Most information is time-consuming and unnecessary. You should be critical with what you look at, read, or watch daily.

The low-information diet:

• Go on a one-week media fast immediately: no newspapers, magazines, news websites, t...

Tim Ferriss proposes that by outsourcing tasks that you don't enjoy or that are not essential to your goals, you can focus on the things that are most important to you. How to do it:

• Get a remote personal assistant to learn how to give orders.
• Never aut...

An interruption is anything that prevents the start-to-finish completion of a critical task.

The 3 main offenders:

1. Time wasters. Things that can be ignored with little or no consequence
2. Time consumers. Repetitive tasks or...

Stress and Misery comes from a feeling of helplessness. By focusing on the “W’s you control”, you can create a life that is more fulfilling and less stressful.

1. (W)hat you do
2. (W)hen you do it
3. (W)here you do it

1. Retirement is the worst-case-scenario insurance.
2. Alternating between periods of rest and activity is essential.
3. Focus on being productive instead of busy.
4. The timing is never right. Waiting for ‘somed...