Do No Work

I sat down with Mike Michalowiz, the entrepreneur's entrepreneur and author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.  He's nuts and brilliant and understands better than most the things to do to build a successful small business (and how to keep it fun).

He was interested in my theory of going to work to do no work. 

Interview With Simon Sinek from Toilet Paper on Vimeo.

Comments

[billie]

so, it's not really doing 'no work' per say but doing fun work which equates to 'no work' or 'play work' =)

[billie]

I think what he means is simply stated as this: when work is fun it doesn't seem like you're really working even though u r...when u work smart u exert the least amount of time and energy into what ever ur doing. that doesn't necessarily mean ur not working hard: it takes hard work menatally to work smartly. =)

[Malcolm Red]

Cool post

I know you will enjoy something I've written. Its called 'On the futility of Hard Work:'

http://malcolmred.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/malcolm-red-on-the-futility-of-hard-work2.pdf

[Ashley]

Love this - helps remind me why I'm working for myself! I did not enjoy being a corporate web designer - but doing it for myself reminds me why I got into the field

[Leah Dossey]

Love the idea of doing "no work", but all one-man shows (or even two-man shows) have to bite the bullet and work. Moms are a great example of this, we are passionate about being a mom, but we still have to change that dirty diaper. ;)
My goal is to "do no work", but to get there a lot of work must get done first.