The Meaning of Life is …
June 5, 2007 – 7:23 amI just got finished reading a book you should go out and pick up right away - it’s called the Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.
And, while I don’t know if I’ll ever actually work only four hours per week, it has helped me to think a lot more clearly about how I want to spend my time.
I’m clear now that I need to offload as much as I possibly can that takes my personal time so I can spend my time working on my book.
It’s going to take me a while to do it, but it feels great to be clear about the next steps I need to take.
Here they are:
- Finalize VIP membership programs for law firm so I can stop seeing new clients and focus the time I give the firm on my existing clients.
- Oversee website re-deployment so we can move off of expensive and unnecessary hosting service.
- Hand off Law Business Secrets to partner.
- Find partner to take over Kids Protection Planning Kit. (email me if you are interested in a great business with a huge potential upside - you must be creative and very familiar with the internet).
Offload, offload, offload and protect my time so I can do what has meaning to me and not what I just get sucked into because I didn’t really think about the impact to what I really want out of life.
Now, I have a filter through which to say yes and no to new projects and ideas that come up for me.
See, my mind is an idea factory. It just keeps creating more and more.
Without a filter, I want to do everything. But, now I can focus on doing less because I have a bigger purpose in mind.
What is your filter? What is most important to you? What are you working towards?
Tim Ferriss, the author of the book, is driven to make more time so he can have what he calls mini-retirements, or peak experiences that have him traveling throughout the world to places where he can learn a new language and a new skill. So, you might find Tim in Brazil learning Portuguese and Brazilian jujitsu.
That doesn’t particularly move me, but the point of the book is that you can find what’s most important to you and structure your life around whatever that is instead of falling into the trap that most of us do and structuring your life around false constricts imposed by societal expectations of what you "should" do.
Tim wrote "life exists to be enjoyed and that the most important thing is to feel good about yourself."
Amen, Tim!
That my friends IS the meaning of life.
Look within and find out what you enjoy about life and what you can do everyday to feel good about yourself. All of your answers are there.
Enjoy it, love it, love yourself!
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