Asteeeg! Beyond traditional careers and conventional lifestyle

As one of the inspirations for this blog, Tim Ferriss’ “4-Hour Workweek” will be mentioned in many succeeding posts. To start off, here’s a short bulleted summary of some of the important concepts:

DEAL
This is the acronym for his basic process to come up with the lifestyle you want
Define what you want to achieve, your dreams and where you are right now
Eliminate non-essentials, things that waste your time.
Automate processes for your business and personal life. Delegate.
Liberate yourself from your comfort zones and from physical, environmental limitations

ON TIME MANAGEMENT and PRODUCTIVITY
Don’t be busy, be productive.
Combine Pareto’s 80/20 principle and Parkinson’s Law:
a. limit tasks to important to shorten work time
b. shorten work time to limit tasks to the important

Refuse unimportant information. Multi-tasking is stupid. Do one thing at a time with full focus.

TEST ASSUMPTIONS
Never rely on just logic, opinion and past experiences. Examples: Get market feedback before investing time and money on a product idea, do split tests on advertisements, cut down on certain types of meats for a week before deciding to be a vegetarian.

Tim said his main profession is experimenting with assumptions - his and other people’s. This relates to two more of his strengths - being analytic and being obsessive with metrics of results.

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONES
Identify and do the things you often avoid, most probably they are the things you have to face and learn. For me they are talking to strangers, studying accounting and finance, etc. Act outside the box.

DREAM BIG, IT’S MORE REALISTIC
Goals that are seemingly “impossible” have more power to inspire you to move and act on than goals that are “feasible”. Ask yourself “what’s exciting” rather than a vague “what do I want?”

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Some More Introduction to Asteeeg.com

On our blog we also aim to discuss ideas on entrepreneurship, marketing, productivity, self-development and other means to expand our outlook about our lives and how we see the world. There’s is definitely more to life than spending your day behind the desk, banging your keyboards and to end it with a few laughs over beer with your colleagues at night.

If our blog eventually gets you to close your laptop and get on your feet to do the things that you really want, we would have done our job.

Boredom is the enemy.

“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom.” - Richard Bach