How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks from Tim­o­thy Fer­riss is the first part of a two-part inter­view between JD Roth (of the excel­lent per­sonal finance site, Get Rich Slowly) and he of 4HWW fame, Tim­o­thy Ferriss.

There’s an apt quote in the inter­view on some­thing I’m cur­rently strug­gling with:

The hard­est part is decid­ing. Because until you decide, most peo­ple can’t plan. As soon as you say, “I’m going to go on Orb­itz [an Inter­net travel site pop­u­lar in the US], and I’m going to buy this ticket” — once you make that deci­sion then all of a sud­den it’s pulled out of the realm of hope­ful think­ing and it goes into tac­ti­cal mode.

I think that first sen­tence can apply to many areas in your life — not just travel. For me, it relates to work.