John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

How do you get into the 4 hour work week lifestyle #ytshorts

14 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, John Jonas explains that the cornerstone of his transition to a "mini‑retirement"—working only about 15 hours a week—was hiring remote staff in the Philippines. He emphasizes that the process began with a single employee, countering the common belief that such a model is impossible. By delegating tasks to that first hire, he was able to free up his own time, which later allowed him to scale the team and further reduce his workload, ultimately moving toward a 4‑hour work‑week lifestyle.

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Obviously, the biggest part of all of that is just having people in the Philippines working for me. And it did not get this way all at once. It was a process. You have to start with one person. Like so many people think, oh, that's not, that's never going to happen. That's not possible. It's not reasonable. I can't, I can never do that. No, you could. You just have to start, you have to start with one person. You have to start somewhere. And I didn't know that it was possible when I started. I mean, that's not what I set out to do. I didn't set out to work, know, 15 hours a week for the rest of my life, but that was, that was where it led me. And having one person who could do things that I was currently doing was a really big deal towards getting on the mini retirement.