I’ve recommended the book The Four Hour Workweek to pretty much everyone I’ve talked to in the past few weeks, not because I think that everyone should go the route of starting their own internet business, but because there are so many useful lifestyle changes that anyone can take from it.

My good friend Josh wrote me about the changes he’s making since starting his Four Hour Workweek:

Mike,

It’s monday and I’m checking my email, one of the two times that I’ve been checking my email. I haven’t watched tv today. I’m opening my spanish txt book tonight and starting to learn. I want to be fluent for Cuba. I called the guy that runs www.camerasforhealing.com and he’s interested in taking me to Sierra Leone. I cleaned out my RSS feeds, I’ve stopped visiting forums, going on facebook more than once a day to check for msgs and business related issues. I got all of my processing done as well as paper work in only 2 hours. I’ve read about 2/3 of the book, officially starting it on Saturday and most of the reading on Sunday, it’s had a major impact already. I’ve made notes throughout it as well as written ideas in the front cover. I have a few good ideas for businesses.

Anyway, I just wanted to touch base let you know that the book made a big impact and that I’m cutting the fat from my diet, so to speak. Let me know how things have materialized in japan etc. Give me an update in about 2 weeks — then you’ll have something sufficient to send versus sending small details of your first events. I want to hear big details of big events.

Cheers,

Josh

(Josh is an absolutely brilliant photographer; the best I know. His website is www.jwebb.com and the video above is a great montage of photographs he took during his time volunteering in Africa, set to a Pearl Jam song)