What Is Lifestyle Design?
Lifestyle design was a concept recently made popular by Timothy Ferris who wrote the “4 Hour Work Week” An exciting book that explains how some people he refers to as the “New Rich” are creating systemized business ventures that allow the owner or owners to live, work and play from any place in the world.
He goes on to explain strategies for systemizing virtual businesses to achieve almost total freedom from the day to day operations thus allowing a tremendous amount of free time and automated income for the owner. This is where the Life Design part comes in. When one achieves this rare combination of time, financial and geographic freedom they are able to focus on the things that he or she is passionate about and loves. Like experiencing long term travel, learning about other cultures or simply fulfilling personal dreams whether material or experiential.
He challenges the typical thinking of many mainstream Americans who think that they are successful to the degree that they are busy in a career working for money and saving for retirement, only to retire when the best years of their lives are over. Instead he suggests that we make the best of our lives now doing things that excite us and add adventure to our lives.
He explains that it’s easier than we think to achieve by leveraging currency to obtain ones desired lifestyle and freedom even quicker. This is done by creating dollars in your business, outsourcing mundane as well as professional tasks to highly educated people in developing countries who happily work for less and then live in places where ones money goes much further. This allows one to essentially make less money and potentially live a far richer life in exotic places around the world.
Although there is much more to learn outside the book about launching and developing a successful business that you can operate from any place in the world, this book will give you a gigantic step in the right direction. It will clarify many things for you and worst case its fun as hell to read. I highly recommend it. Check it out on Amazon.
Hi, I’m Nate Bunger and the writer and entrepreneur behind this blog.Over the past several years I've created, managed and sold several different businesses despite never finishing high school, making myself more or less financially free by the age of 25.
I used the realization that we can do anything in life if we are simply willing to set goals, find the answers we seek and never stop until we achieve what we set out for.
I currently teach people how to get clear on their purpose, create habits for massive change and bring their deepest desires into reality.
I operate my business from a Mac laptop while traveling around the world…My dream :)
