The 4-Hour Work Week

Do yourself all a favor and read how author Timothy Ferriss went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week!

The book is called ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ and you can buy it here on Amazon.com.

I know exactly what you’re thinking - “I could never do that with my job…” “Cool idea, but surely it’s impossible…”

All it takes is an open mind, some creativity and a bit of balls! Timothy Ferriss will take you on a journey where you will question and test everything about your current working situation. If you’re too scared to take on the challenge, you’d better crack on with your job working 10 hour days so that one day you’ll become a boss - and then work 14 hour days

Enjoy the free time!

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Le Cool

Fortunately, you’ll never be uncool again!

All you need to do is click on this link, choose your city and sign up to a weekly magazine that will serve as your free ticket to your kingdom of cool. It has become my most welcome companion, sitting in my inbox on a Thursday morning - every Thursday morning.

‘Le Cool online magazine’ is your new weekly itinerary for all the cool gigs, exhibitions, events, clubs etc. It’s compiled weekly by a handful of youngsters who are smart, creative and want you to make the most of your time in the capital.

This is what the layout of a Le Cool day looks like:

Enjoy,

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‘Thinking Big’ VS ‘Doing Big’

Thinking Big: Coming up with ‘wow’ ideas / Signing up for a massive challenge / Writing an unthinkable 10 year goal

Doing Big: Making the ideas happen / Completing the challenge / Reaching the unthinkable 10 year goal (in 8 years)

A lot of people underestimate the creativity of Doing Big. Yes, it takes balls and drive, but creativity will save you time, cut unnecessary corners and give you a plan to move forward.

There are millions of people who have big ideas for every one person who does something big. The failure seems to be in the second step. Everyone has had an amazing idea (step 1) but sadly only a precious few get off the arse and do something about it (step 2).

Your world changing idea (you know what it is) is worthless until you make it happen.

Here’s a small example of someone who had an idea to create the biggest drawing in the world (step 1) and how he did it (step 2)

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10 Optical Illusions in 2 Minutes

Below is the amazing new Viral by Samsung!

I have always loved optical illusions and the way the eye plays tricks on the mind. You’ll recognize a few of these…

If you were amazed by the dino robot - here is a link that explains how it works and how you can make one.

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5.75 Questions You Have Been Avoiding

If you enjoyed ‘The 8 Irresistible Principles of Fun‘ then you’ll love next soul searching animation. It’s called ‘The 5.75 Questions You Have Been Avoiding‘. They’re all questions we know, but need to pay more attention to.

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find the 5.75 Questions here:

Same Thing - Different Way

Following on from the previous post ‘The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost’ a thought popped into my head.

What if Robert Frost had taken that same path as everybody else, but just did it in a completely new way? Would that also have “made all the difference”?

Here is an example of ‘Same Thing - Different Way’

Enjoy (and probably don’t try all of these!)

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The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

How often do you try something different?

- The way you get to work.

- The books you read.

- The people you socialize with.

- Your holiday spot.

The equation is simple: The more you break out of your routine to do something different, the more you will experience, the more you learn

Below is the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.	20

How Do ‘We’ Feel?

Seth Godin points us to twistori, a social experiment page which scans for, then posts, phrases containing key words. So any sentence posted by anyone on twitter containing the words LOVE, HATE, THINK, BELIEVE, FEEL or WISH scroll up the screen.

It’s unbelievably insightful.

This experiment was inspired by www.wefeelfine.org - An innovative social experiment by Jonathan Harris that I strongly recommend you check out, it’s mind blowing!

Jonathan Harris’ TED Talk is below.

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Pat Sweet & Richard Scarry

This post is dedicated to my uncle Pat Sweet who I will always remember for being the source of countless hours of mental and creative stimulation.

When we (my brothers and I) were very young Pat would come and stay in our crazy little house for a few days every year. Every time he would bring with him a few new tricks, amazing stories, Appletons Jamacian Rum, his guitar and a new Richard Scarry book.

My all time favorite is ‘What Do People Do All Day’. I was recently reunited with the timeless Richard Scarry because my eldest brother has two toddlers who love them. His books provide amazing insight into the minds of children, as well as explaining life, people and the world in the simplest and funnest way.

I’m going dig out and dust off the old copies Pat gave us and use them for ideas.

Below is an introduction to the Busy World of Richard Scarry:

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Giving Up

In one of Seth Godin’s books, The Dip, he explains to us that knowing when to give up could be one of the greatest skills that you can learn in business and in life. Not giving up in the defeatist sense, but giving up with the knowledge that you have done everything you can, and dedicating more time and resources to this challenge is an opportunity cost.

What are you pouring time, energy and resources into that could be getting in the way of your next project?

You should read the book. I think even Winston Churchill (”Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never“) would understand where Seth is coming from in this one! Well, they may have discussed it.

Summed up very nicely below by our friend Gary Larson:

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