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Chapter 02 – Create your ‘Smart’

Lifestyle Design

I briefly touched on the idea of lifestyle design. What does this mean precisely?

The term 'lifestyle design' was either coined or popularized by Tim Ferriss in his book The Four Hour Workweek. The idea behind it is simple: you create the lifestyle you want out of your job.

This simply means that you think about the lifestyle you want and then you choose a career/build a business to support that.

For most of us, this works in the entirely

opposite way. Most of us will find ourselves 'landing in a job' and from there we then see the rest of our lifestyles forming around that. We get a job and

right away that dictates where we are going to live, so we normally move to that area.

At the same time, it tells us which hours we are going to work and depending on how far away we live, this will also have to include some time for a commute.

Some people will move away from their friends and family so that they can work the job they have or will even breakup relationships that were otherwise going well – all because of their jobs! And don't get it confused: these aren't jobs that they've always wanted. These aren't 'dream careers' that they have been thinking about since a young age.

No, these are jobs that they 'just kind of landed in' and are now too afraid to leave. And they're completely dictating their lives.

2.1 Lifestyle Design: The Alternative

So how does lifestyle design work in principle?

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