My Q4 Resolution and Tim Ferriss’ Four-Hour Body
Forget New Year’s resolutions. I prefer making quarterly resolutions to keep myself on track. Though it’s nothing I’ve ever seen him write about, It’s a habit I mysteriously picked up after reading Tim Ferriss’ efficiency tome:The Four-Hour Workweek: How to Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (4HWW). (Read my review of the book in the Resources section of GaryBoomershine.com for details that may help to explain my eccentricity on this issue.)
In his book, Ferriss encourages us always to focus on our strengths and to work around our weaknesses. Well, I confess, that one of my personal weaknesses is finding the time and energy — especially when I’m spending a lot of time traveling — to eat right and get enough quality exercise.
For those of us who too often get our cardio sprinting through an airport a la O.J. Simpson in his Hertz Rental Car era, or attain the bulk of our strength conditioning battling with bandit signs or sprinting to Home Depot and lifting heavy hardware, Ferriss also offers some simple Lifestyle tips to help us eat better and have great workouts in less time.
On Ferriss’ Blog, he has an entire section called “The Four-Hour Body” that is a virtual gymnasium of his unique research, thoughts and “best practices” for shaping up. The first such post I remember reading was last year’s: “From Geek to Freak: How I gained 34 lbs. of muscle in Four Weeks.”
As the title suggests, Ferriss documents his progress and offers all sorts of useful details about the diet and exercise regimen he devised that produced awesome results in just one month. Since I recently reviewed all this material, I’ve made a decision: Over the next quarter, I’m going to give Ferriss’ “Four Hour Body” the chance to work the same magic on me that SalesTeamLive’s fully-automated, Done-for-You marketing campaigns are currently working for hundreds of active real estate entrepreneurs.
Thinking about it, Ferriss’ goals and procedures for transforming his body are but a corporeal realization of SalesTeamLive’s product philosophy: Spend a few hours up front getting your system in place, and the rest of your time and creative energy focusing on building lean marketing muscle.
My goals aren’t nearly so dramatic as Ferriss’ were in his apparent metamorphosis. I’m not looking to become a World tango or international kick-boxing champion. I just want to “feel the burn” that brings on endorphins instead of the orthopedist. This realization hit me hard after a high-intensity post-seminar workout with Cris Chico and Chris Daigle that found me limping home a few days later in intense pain.
As I lay on my strained back, recovering from my bruised ego, I finally accepted that by taking better care of myself, I’m also taking better care of my business and my family. There. I’ve said it. My wife has been right all along. Now, if only I could “outsource” my workouts!