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The Four Hour Work Week has a lot of good ideas, but interesting to me is the information on oversees travel for mini-retirements.  Here are some good links that can help with moving this idea along:

• http://www.airbnb.com/- bed and breakfasts or rooms to rent everywhere
• http://www.virtualtourist.com – great source for user generated content on travel
• http://www.tripadvisor.com – great source for user generated content on travel
• http://www.escapeartist.com – a much more interesting take on travel
• http://www. gridskipper.com – urban travel guide
• http://outside.away.com – lots of articles about places to go and things to do
• http://www.perpetualtravel.com/rtw/ – great FAQ and round the world travel guide
• http://www.rentvillas.com/ – the name says it all
• http://www.transitionsabroad.com/ – work, study, travel and live
• http://www.workingoverseas.com/ – again, the name says it all
• http://www. vrbo.com – vacation rentals by owner

Another good site with information (with overlap from the above list) is at the Department of State – http://www.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/79765.htm

Lifehacker had another good post on memory hacks – a number of tools and techniques to help you remember the things that matter.  Writing something down is often the best method (or at least a good one), but napping and visualization are also great tricks.

Source: Lifehacker 

Tim Ferriss blogged about giving a good presentation – there are a number of good tips in there, depending on the situation of course.  Much of the advice is actually from Al Gore’s speechwriter given through an interview, so there is someone certainly speaking from experience.

Source: Four Hour Work Week

I have been reading Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss and it has a lot of great points on productivity. It also has good ideas on how to start a new business that isn’t service based – so your time isn’t correlated 1:1 to your revenue. One tip is to outsource tasks, including anything from personal daily tasks to common work activities to generating business plans. You can hire the equivalent of a Harvard MBA for $15 or $20 an hour. Some companies/sites that can provide outsourcing include:

• https://www.getfriday.com/
• http://www.workaholics4hire.com/
• http://assistu.com/client/client_how.shtml
• http://www.yourvirtualresource.com/
• http://www.canadianva.net/files/va-locator.html
• http://www.elance.com (search “virtual assistants” or “personal assistants”)
• http://www.b2kcorp.com
• http://www.youmaninindia.com

Also check out Tim’s blog for some more interesting insight.

My dad sent this link to me. It’s a great lecture from a Carnegie Mellon professor who is dying from cancer. It’s over an hour long, but worth watching even if in bits and pieces.

Source: Google Video