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The Truth Behind the 4-Hour Workweek (And How to Make It Work)

5 shifts to turn your dreams into reality...

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Jo Barnes
Jun 23, 2025
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Bay of Islands, NZ. The kind of view you regularly get when you design your life with intention.

The 4-Hour Workweek doesn’t promise easy. But it does promise options.

I read it on a flight home after spending a few days with friends in Cyprus who were 'making money online'. I had no idea what that even meant, but I was hooked.

I downloaded the book before takeoff and devoured it somewhere over Eastern Europe.

It wasn’t the four-hour bit that grabbed me. It was the idea that you could design your life. That you didn’t need to wait for retirement or win the lottery to reclaim your time. You could work on your own terms, from wherever you happened to be, and still earn enough to live well.

That book opened a door in my mind.

Not long after, my husband and I sold everything, packed up our lives, grabbed our four-year-old, and flew to Cyprus (housesitting for said friends) with a secondhand laptop and barely a plan.

The rest, as they say, is history.

15 years later, with multiple 6 & 7-figure bu…

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