Showing posts with label spending time with your kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spending time with your kids. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Time for change...

Back in July, I happened to come across a comment about a book on someone's blog. The book sounded interesting, so I ordered it. "The 4-Hour Workweek," by Timothy Ferriss, arrived a few days later. I was about to leave for vacation, so I gave it a cursory glance and forgot about it for the next month. It was mid-August when next I picked it up, and I haven't put it down since. The book is all about lifestyle redesign, and it's a fascinating read for whatever stage in life you are in.
It got me thinking about how out of balance my life has become. I work at home as a freelance writer, and while I love it, I feel like I've gotten away from the goals that made me want to do that in the first place. Namely, to spend lots of time with my kids. Well, I do spend lots of time with my kids, but a good deal of that is while I'm typing away while my two-year old watches cartoons next to me. Not good.
This book has made me remember my earlier goal of creating enough residual income to live on so that I don't have to do as much for up-front pay. It also gave a bunch of ideas for how to do that.
Check this book out, it is a life changer!