Timothy Ferriss: Work Less, Earn More, Part One

Friday, January 8th, 2010

In Part One of WEALTH magazine’s spotlight on best-selling author Timothy Ferriss, we’ll look at how Ferriss entered his 15 minutes of fame and came up with what he calls his “lifestyle redesign.” In Part Two, we’ll take a look at Ferriss’ recommendations for creating your own lifestyle redesign.

Is it possible to have fun in life without waiting for retirement and still generate the wealth you need to live comfortably? (more…)

Timothy Ferriss: Work Less, Earn More, Part Two

Friday, January 8th, 2010

In Part One of WEALTH magazine’s spotlight on best-selling author Timothy Ferriss, we took a look at how Ferriss entered his 15 minutes of fame and came up with what he calls his “lifestyle redesign.” In Part Two, we see how Ferriss recommends that others can redesign their lives and businesses to get the most out of every minute.

Ferriss found that his life changed when he combined the Pareto Prinicple and the adage known as “Parkinson’s Law,” which loosely purports that the demand for a resource tends to expand to match the supply of that resource. By putting the two together, Ferriss asked himself — and encourages his readers to ask — the following two questions from Pareto’s Principle. When they get the answers, it’s time to apply Parkinson’s Law: (more…)