Cohenville » life http://www.cohenville.com/blog It's interesting to me Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:35:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Lifestyle changes http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2009/07/22/lifestyle-changes/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2009/07/22/lifestyle-changes/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:03:13 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=107 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:

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

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Source: Lifehacker 

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Source: Four Hour Work Week

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2008/05/11/tips-for-a-good-presentation/feed/ 0 Outsource your life http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/outsource-your-life/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/outsource-your-life/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:35:57 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/outsource-your-life/ 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:

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

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Source: Google Video

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