A few weeks ago I hinted that we were working on something that would enable us to meet our financial requirements in only 4 hours a week (or zero hours a week, depending on whose book you were reading!)   This is still part of our “Lifestyle Design” experiment as we work through Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek. Today I reveal our plan!...

So last Friday I told you about “learning to fly”.  I completed my exercises for 4HWW right after writing that blog.  I created a questionnaire based on the questions at the end of Chapter 4 and got all my answers on paper.  I then worked out the costs and got set up with clear goals for the next 6 months and some “rougher” goals for the...

For most of my life, the question “What are you going to do when you grow up?” has hounded me, nightmarishly.  Every week it was a different answer. My earliest recollection of what I wanted to be was a nun (I liked the “long dresses”).  Then I wanted to be a vet,  then a surgeon.  I wanted to be a teacher, a flight attendant, a tour...