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This episodes we will talk about grief. Gary’s mother has left him last year and Jackie’s mother has left her in the last month, as we are still in the grieving phases, we would like to share some ways on how we are dealing with our grievances and also the 5 stages of grief. We hope that we can shed some lights to any of you who are going through the same phases with us.
In this episode, we will discuss on the great resignation during COVID. How capitalism is using alienation to exploit workers and what you should do about it.
"Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees, but that's just the beginning." Tim Ferris, 4 hours work week
This episode discusses the book 4 hours work week.
New Rich
Tim Ferris defined the "New Rich" vs current high-income earner, coined lifestyle design, and digital nomad. The book talks about escaping 9-5, beat the rat race, and introduce 4 steps DEAL.
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Define
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Eliminate
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Automate
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Liberate
Emphasizes strength, don't fix weaknesses to increase productivity
Mini retirement : Retirement is a scam. Do not live life frugally just to reach retirement at old age. Take mini-retirement from 2 weeks to one month
Parkinson Law : Set a short time frame and complete it
80/20 rules: spend 20% of your daily effort to achieve 80% of results
Email Etiquette : Check your email at a specific time of the day. Off the email notifications as each notification pop up will take away your 7 seconds on attention span
Meeting : stand up meeting so that everyone will state the main point and keep the meeting short
Not stay back for OT : You are allowing yourself to be not productive during work hour. Your productivity will drop after a certain work hours
Learn to say no : Be a NO-man and put back the focus back to what is important to you.
Esp includes 4 keys point the book had shared: 1. Importance of Financial literacy 2. Component of a Cashflow diagrams 3. Mind your own “business” as that is your income generating machine. 4. Work to learn, not for money We also shared Robert’s method to overcome common obstacles like fear and cynicism (noise from peers). Lastly, 3 key actionable steps: 1. identify what you want and what choice of your 2. choose your friends wisely 3. How to pay urself first
This podcast address the issue of people who are tired of work and found no purpose and goals at work. We shared 3 steps in finding the “Why” at work. 1. Don’t ponder over the how and what, always ask about the why? 2. Find your mentor, inspiration and your average 5 3. Take risk, don’t focus on goal setting. Focus on fear setting.