Tuesday 20 February 2018

Review: Life Leverage: How to Get More Done in Less Time, Outsource Everything & Create Your Ideal Mobile Lifestyle

Be prepared for a barrage of proprietary acronyms and didactic although gently humorous style if you decide to pick this up.  It is also (grits teeth) written by yet another BTL empire builder.

It's a dense book, but if you've done any reading in this area at all eg The Four Hour Work Week, Brian Tracey - you'll be familiar with concepts like 80/20 rule, compounding etc.

Personally, I was beginning to wonder if I'd get anything worthwhile from the book. But I did manage to lift a few ideas:

Multi-tasking (he calls it NeTime or No extra time) eg listening to audiobooks while travelling. I do this specific example already, but I will consciously combine my trips to the local town to attend courses etc with shopping for essentials in the future (and hopefully free up Saturdays!)

Product/service design. His list of areas to target is nice and compact:

  1. Solve a small problem for many people. 
  2. Solve a big problem for a few people. 
  3. Solve a small problem multiple times. 
  4. Solve a big problem multiple times. 
  5. Serve charitably. 
  6. Serve materially. 
  7. Serve by entertainment.

Software tools. Don't use little know ones as they won't play nice with others.

Five to seven rule. Only put five to seven things on your to-do list.

Getting started in constructing a team.  I liked the simple advice about hiring a PA first, then operations manager, managing director, specialists/technicians and financiers.

Again not the first time I've encountered this quote in recent months, but worth highlighting anyhow:
There have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about in a book.
Will Smith (yep, that one - I was surprised too) 


In summary, there's little that's new here, but I could see myself skimming through this again at some point for inspiration or reminders.


Verdict: Useful reminder or introduction depending on where you are.


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