Feeling chained to the desk, is it possible for entrepreneurs to have a 21-hour work week?
I recently read an eye-opening, unorthodox article from Fast Company discussing the possibility of instating a 21-hour work week instead of 40 hours.
So there’s the REAL entrepreneur’s 70+ hour work week, Tim Ferris’s four-hour work week (outsource everything and sit at home and eat Twinkies), and now we have a proposed 21-hour work week.
The New Economies Foundation (NEF) released a report stating that the 21-hour work week would create more jobs and stop the “unsustainable cycle of rampant consumerism.” They argue that not only is the American society obsessed with work and consumption, but we live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume. It’s like when a 16-year-old kid gets his first job to pay for a car, so he can drive to work to pay for his car; its an endless, antiquated cycle; I agree. Read More→
Do you offer family and friends discounts? Do you have clients who try to twist your arm, play hardball, and try to get great deals? I’m sure you answered “yes”, because every entrepreneur encounters these situations. You know… the family friend who you see once a year who thinks that since he eats your family casserole at the summer picnic, that he’s entitled to a 40% “Family & Friends Discount.” We’ve all run into this situation and it can be tough maintaining your price integrity in the face of their “connection” to you. I recently ran into this with a prospect whom I already knew; I met with him, reviewed what he was looking for on his end, what I had to offer, and my pricing. 
