The 4 Hour Work Week Experiment

Hours worked: 4

Comments:

While I was sitting back reflecting on the on the experiment and my reaction and attitudes towards it I noticed some interesting changes in my beliefs about work.

So far each day I have gotten ALL my important tasks done, and my income hasn’t suffered one single bit. Sure it’s early days but I’m feeling VERY confident that the shift from 12-15 hours per day to 4 will NOT have a negative impact on my earnings.

In fact I’m quite surprised to find my self doing a total 360 degree shift on the subject  – my wife will tell you, one of my main arguments for working those long hours was that if I didn’t “put in the hours” we wouldn’t be able to keep up our level of income – in other words I believed I HAD to work 12-15 hours a day simply to maintain a certain level of income.

My belief on that subject has completely changed.

There is however another belief that I haven’t yet been able to shift – that is that in order to INCREASE my income I still have to work ‘harder’ (which translates to more hours for me). for some reason, I still can’t come to grips with the possibility of increasing my income without putting in more effort on my part. To me, income (or rewards) only come with greater effort (more working hours).

I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to change this belief if this experiment is going to succeed.