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Some thoughts on outsourcing from Tim Ferriss's book, 4-Hour Workweek

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What isn't getting done?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I was sitting down taking another look at this book. If you haven't ever read this, it's a good one to go read. I've mentioned before, they've got a great audio book. The first time I read it was listening to it.

And then I went and got the book because it's got some fabulous diagrams and other pictures in it that are worth having this plus so many great quotes and other things that he sources in this book. And this book is really all over the place.

So that if you've never never heard of this one before Timothy Ferriss, 4 Hour Work Week. Or if you've never sat down with it, it's worth going into the so the subtitle is, escape the nine to five, live anywhere and join the new rich.

It's really how to go from step one of not having anything to having the dream lifestyle, the four hour workweek, right. And it's gotten a lot of flack because the title is so in your face, and so artificial on a lot of levels, but but artificial in an idealist way.

So it's an ideal scenario. It's not necessarily whatever, what people want to do is just sit around and just work four hours a day, or four hours a week. But it's the idea that if I could do that, if I have enough income, and I had enough freedom to be able to do that, that's what people are after.

That's why the title was so powerful and he talks about in these later editions, how he came up with the title and so forth. So that's cool.

But it all comes back to system. That's really what it all comes back to if you're wanting some form of automated business, if you want your business to be more automated, depend less on you or at least those parts of your business that you don't like doing, having that be handled is really a major part.

So how do you get there?

I hear this over and over and over again, from people talking about how you need to outsource. And you outsource the things you're not good at, or that you don't like doing.

First, you get those out of your hair so that you can focus on those areas that you do best.

More than likely the areas you do best are the areas that you're best at and that you enjoy doing, you enjoy doing those areas. So if you start focusing more on that your whole life feels better too, because you're not working on all the all the stuff you don't like.

And the assumption is well, I don't like doing it. Nobody likes doing it but trust me, there's someone that likes doing everything or they would prefer doing that over other things.

It's not that they absolutely adore cleaning the toilets, but they'd rather clean the toilets and go hungry, they'd rather clean the toilets. In many cases, they'd rather clean the toilets than getting a welfare check or something else. It's not a bad thing to offer work, even if it is less glamorous, or in your mind less glamorous.

There's always somebody that would like to do it and so you got to find those people put them into put them to work. But here's the real issue that I've seen with large businesses. It's not the things that are already getting done that need to get outsourced the most oftentimes, oftentimes, it's the things that need to happen that are n...