If you’re anything like me, whenever you see someone quoted or featured on a major media outlet or publication, you stop and say “How did they get in there?”, or more often than not, “Um. I could have said that…”. In January, I contributed to an Entrepreneur feature on outsourcing – the result of sending one reply to one email that came right into my inbox. I know that a mention and a few quotes isn’t the same as a TED talk or primetime CNBC – that’s not the point. This is simply to crush a crippling misconception and share an invaluable resource you can leverage to get on the media radar.

Keep reading for…

• Shifting how you think about credibility, barriers and accessibility
• A free, unbeatable resource for directly connecting with the media
• Link to Entrepreneur article (and raw interview responses for anyone interested in the outsourcing/system side of things)
• Next on Muselife

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Because it’s a fresh new year, and free is a beautiful word…

To celebrate the close of a year and welcoming of a new, let’s all toast to designing lifestyles worth living. As a thank you for the tremendous support of what we’re doing on Muselife, and to share some of what I’ve learned along the way, go grab a free copy of my book, Source Control. You can read up on it at the book website, but this is the only way to get a copy free. This ends on or around midnight Saturday Jan 2, 2010 so check the end of this post and grab yours while it’s free.

Need inspiration? Check out Tim Ferriss’ Cold Remedy Contest

Check out the 15 video entries over at the 4-Hour Workweek blog’s Cold Remedy contest. They’ll all help light a blazing fire under your ass going into 2010. I’m one of the finalists, and though I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t love to win this thing and have more fuel to jet around filming for Muselife – go with your gut and enjoy the killer stories from each person.

Give me a free copy of Source Control…

Enough of this polished, text-only blogging. It’s time for raw content and constant discussion around all things in the lifestyle design and muse creation world. Let’s get this started with some outsourcing thoughts.

You’ll notice a new face with me in some of these videos. Seth Hosko (@shosko) has been working with me for years and we’re currently running a venture firm called Dangerous Ambition. More on that later.

Some links and shout-outs…

• MindMeister , a killer tool for breaking down your processes and figuring out exactly what you’re doing with your time.
• Source Control, my book on outsourcing and process design.
• RELENTLESS shirt inspired by Relentless Fitness (@liverelentless). Roger is going to be huge in his space – keep an eye on him.

Lifestyle design needs an intervention, and you just walked into a room full of familiar faces. Interventions don’t make friends, but they do save lives. I’m about to tap your ego, but I might just save your life.

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The last thing I want to do is set a negative tone, but there’s been a topic I keep hearing come up in various communities that it’s time to weigh-in on…

To start things off, below is a quick video to let you know what Muselife is all about. Take a minute to watch and then check out the post below it for more…

Muselife is born of equal parts inspiration and frustration: inspiration to share experiences with outsourcing and niche product creation, and frustration with the torrent of conflicting advice and common questions I see absolutely everywhere. It’s time to centralize the conversation and share both the experiences and resources needed to make a killing turning your ideas into income and aggressively reclaming your time.

It’s important we start by defining our end-game: ultramobility & total personal autonomy enabled by highly automated sources of passive income. Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Work Week succinctly and powerfully codified a lifestyle and methodology many of us were already pursuing, and a thriving community has emerged to further the effort. Within these circles, we call one such source a muse to distinguish it from a traditional business – as the focus is an essentially hands-off, automated way of generating revenue that lets us focus on far more important facets of your life: time with family, friends, exploring passions, travel, philanthropy, and so on.

Consider Muselife your no-bullshit resource for all facets of achieving such a lifestyle, focused on rapid product development, niche market testing, fanatical outsourcing and complete process automation to give you more of what you can never get back once it’s gone – your time.

Click below to keep reading…

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