Welcome to the inaugural edition of a series of tips, links, and reviews related to Lifestyle Design (LD) concepts. This series will cover such topics as:

• How to free up personal time
• Low information diets
• How to live anywhere, work remotely, and virtually manage a business
• How to take mini-retirements without sacrificing your career

Without further ado, here goes…

Technorati Tags: 4-Hour Work Week, 4HWW, Four-Hour Work Week, lifestyle design, living off dividends, low information diet, mini-retirements, passive income, personal outsourcing, selective ignorance, Timothy Ferriss

Yesterday I submitted a guest post to Dumb Little Man called How to Score Free Airline Vouchers by Reserving Overbooked Flights.  The article describes how to leverage airline overbooking — the practice of selling more tickets than available seats on a given flight — to gain free travel vouchers and roundtrip tickets.  If you’re a frequent traveler it might help out.

Because it hit Digg’s front page, the article received a lot of comments.  So if you want to see a real smackdown, as opposed to yesterday’s fake one, I’d head there (I was on the receiving end of the “smack”).

Fight Promotion

What do Steven Covey, David Allen, and Timothy Ferriss have in common?  They’re dudes.  Let’s face it, getting off on productivity is often a male thing.  Here’s another thing men like: kicking the crap out of each other.  Men have been perfecting that art longer than they’ve been tinkering with PDAs and other work fidgets. So when you think about it, combining productivity with kicking the crap out of each other makes good sense, especially since two of last year’s best selling productivity authors are also martial artists (I’m referring to Timothy Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Work Week, and David Allen, author of Getting Things Done).

Two shots of testosterone, coming up. . .

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Name: David Allen Inbox: Zero (finished) Motto: Do it, delegate it, or defer it.   Age: 62 Fighting Style: Getting Things Done (GTD)   Experience: Former karate instructor. Religion: Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness Strengthes: Stress-free productivity.   Weakness: GTD can be unrealistically complex.	Name: Timothy Ferriss Inbox: Outsourced to Bangalore, India. Motto: Do less of it.  Outsource it, automate it, or selectively ignore it. Age: 29 Fighting Style: Four-Hour Work Week (4HWW) Experience: Championship cage fighter. Religion: Agnostic   Strengthes: Effectiveness, lifestyle design, purposeful unrealism. Weaknesses: 4HWW can be unrealistic.