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Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week Inspires Sabbatical Mindset

Posted on January 5, 2009 by
Barbara Pagano

You’re busy.  No time for a top ten list.  There’s only one best 2008 business book you should take with you into the new year to expand your sabbatical mindset.

To be honest after reading it, I found no realistic idea to execute immediately since  mostly it’s about how the author, Timothy Ferris, recreated his own life. Watch Tim here.

But conceptually, Whoa.

The 4-Hour Workweek (despite that hokey title) is hot – meaning it makes you think about how you could live life a little differently.

Begin this new year motivated, focused and plan to do some business and life planning before Valentine’s Day.

Ride off into 2009 with this in your saddlebags; Kindle it up around the campfire.  Seriously, it’s so far from one of those dreary leadership lesson books written by old farts.  This book screams -  do more with your life than just work.  That’s hot.

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About Barbara Pagano

Founding Partner, yourSABBATICAL.com.

Barbara has spent more than 20 years helping leaders excel and facilitating for Fortune 500 firms. She has shared her leadership insights with audiences totaling more than 300,000 executives from companies like Coca-Cola, NCR, Target, and Turner Broadcasting, and she has personally coached almost 3,000 executives from companies including American Express, AT&T, and BellSouth. Barbara’s research on credibility, the diagnostic tools she has developed with a leading company in the assessment industry, and her focus on skills and measurable improvement offer leaders proven methods for building trusting, high-performing relationships. She inspires, teaches and holds leaders accountable for results. She is co-author of THE TRANSPARENCY EDGE: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business (McGraw-Hill), chosen by Fast Company magazine as a “Book of the Month.” The book is available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Transparency-Edge-Elizabeth-Pagano/dp/0071458840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291230117&sr=8-1.

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Barbara and her daughter, Elizabeth, became fierce advocates for the sabbatical movement after experiencing their own six-month sabbatical, during which they sailed alone for 2,000 miles on a 43-foot sailboat named “Revival.” To read the story of their sailing sabbatical, go to http://yoursabbatical.com/about/team/pagano-sailing-sabbatical/.

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