Designing Your Life

[Andy]

I stumbled across a great blog where I was compelled to buy the guy's book to learn more. What he suggests is almost hard to believe but he actually does these things such as outsourcing your life organizational problems to low cost MBAs in India, continually hopping countries to have mini-retirements and living a millionaire lifestyle on a budget.

http://www.4hourworkweek.com/index.htm

[huesped]

I know this blog, and you don't have to pay. Of course I don't think it has even a quarter of the info the other site has

http://www.outsourcing-jobs-to-foreign-country.blogspot.com/Outsourcing blog

[Andy]

But the site I mentioned is not about IT outsourcing. It is about much more and got me very interested since it is along the lines of what I am doing with my own life i.e. escaping from the 9-5, debt culture and living for the weekend mentality. I think outsourcing your life is an advanced concept that should follow getting out of the 9-5 cubicle/commute trap like I have done.

For beginners, I suggest you start with developing your own business income to help you escape the trap of the Job and pave a way towards freedom and teach your kids to think in terms of making their own money rather than working like a slave to make somebody else rich.

Timothy mentions ways to spend the same money to enjoy amazing things that you would associate with rich people but they cost no more than a weekend cruising bars and clubs after work in a big city.

[huesped]

Ahhhhh, got it, sorry

[Andy]

Ahhhhh, got it, sorry

No problemo but I thought you were familiar with the site.

Anyway, I got the book delivered today and went straight to the web to look at some bonus material about how to rapidly learn foreign languages. Since I spent 1 year learning Japanese and not learning much it was great info. Timothy learnt Japanese reading, speaking and writing in 6 months and Chinese in 3 months WOW!

After reading his article I get some of the idea. it's about focusing on what you want to communicate, learning around your own topics of interest and putting it into real life practise at full speed conversation and learning how to cope with getting spoken to too fast etc.

Like in Japanese you can say some very simple things such as "ii ne" which means "good, isn't it" and you can apply this in lots of social situations.

There is only 300 ish pages in the book and it is like a novel in size but I suspect it contains some solid gold information