Finding a Manufacturer ...

Share If you haven’t been following, I’m currently following the 4 Hour Work Week model to build an internet business.  I’ve already found a market and a “muse”, aka product idea. Finding a Manufacturer: For my project I need to find someone to create the...

Become a Productivity G...

Share In my last post I mentioned the difference between being effective and being efficient.  In order to be effective, you need to learn to eliminate, ignore, batch, and timebox (all things I learned in the 4HWW).  By eliminating tasks, you focus efforts on high impact activities,...

Effectiveness vs Effici...

Share “Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals.  Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible… Doing something unimportant does not make it important.  Requiring a lot of time does not...

Business Motivation: Fi...

Share If there’s one thing that I’ve learned through various failures over the last two years, it’s that dedication often decides the difference between success and failure.  One key to dedication is motivation.  The best way to stay motivated is to find people that...

Product Creation, Part ...

Share Coming up with a product to sell is actually much easier than I thought it would be.  I came up with 10 different product ideas within a day, through brainstorming with friends, surfing online shopping and manufacturing sites, and looking around my life for things that I might be...

Product (Muse) Creation...

Share In the Four Hour Work Week you are supposed to come up with a muse, which is just another word for a product.  What are you going to sell? First off, I’m not going to be selling a service.  I’ve thought about selling services in the past, such as starting a translation...

Focusing on what’s real...

Share There are still a lot of people out there who haven’t read The Four Hour Work Week.  If you haven’t read it yet, you should.  Tim Ferriss is one of the movers and shakers of the world right now, and you NEED to know about him.  Even if you aren’t interested in...

10 Things I love about ...

Share There are a lot of reasons that I LOVE living in China.  Here are 10 of them (and even these don’t quite do it justice) 10) Personal Space It may look like my article on personal space was full of negative things, but actually I like that people in China are in general more...
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