INTERVIEW
The Time Trading Guru:
Escape the workplace, take "life breaks,"
and start living again
Escape the workplace, take "life breaks,"
and start living again
by Robert
Renaud
Read an excerpt from The Time
Trading Guru as well as my
interview with the author, Robert Renaud.
Description
Read this book if
you want more out of life. The Time
Trading Guru provides a blueprint to escape the workplace, take life
breaks, and to get more out of life. The formula details how to master the
levers of life's principles of time, flexibility, and money, leverage the DREAM
process to realize your dreams, and to trade one’s self to a more rewarding
life; one full of experiences and relationships and no regrets.
Excerpt
Is it possible to really live life? Is it possible to change course
mid-career? Is it possible to spend more time doing the things you love without
becoming a penniless Bohemian? I’ll show you how you can. I’ll show you how you
can live life again, how you can use the DREAM process to realize your dreams,
and how you can get everything out of your life.
Time trading is the nouveau way to live in the millennium. Shed the old
school of nine to five and the deferred life. Embrace life breaks and start
living life to the fullest. You don’t need to be chained to an unforgiving life
riding the treadmill with someone else setting the speed. You can reframe your perceptions
of success, liberate yourself from the daily grind, escape the workplace, and
integrate key relationships into your life.
Be a time trader. What, you ask is a time trader? You’re no doubt
familiar with a day trader—a person who stands by monitoring the markets and leveraging
the daily volatility to make quick short-term profits. A time trader is a
person who becomes a master at pulling the levers of life to dream and trade themselves
to a more rewarding life, one full of experiences and relationships and no
regrets.
Here’s a primer for changing your life. These elements will be discussed
more fully in later chapters, but let’s just see what the levers of life are:
Time: We only have so much
time available to live. The key is to find the right balance in life.
Flexibility: Reframing your life
will allow you to become more flexible in attaining your dreams.
Money: We need to diversify
our income sources and establish, where possible, automated sources of cash. We
also need to change our lens from working to owning.
By pulling these levers you can use the DREAM process to realize your
dreams.
D: develop awareness of
your dream.
R: realize understanding
of the dream.
E: express knowledge of
the dream by developing a plan.
A: assist belief by
seeking opportunities to live your goal.
M: make realizable by
readjusting where necessary to stay on track.
Time trading is a formula for living life your way, a way to have
everything you want. Time trading is using the levers of life to give you the
power to realize your dreams. It allows you to have what every human being
wants—time to live life, real time to live, not a nine to five straightjacket,
but time.
To live life as you want, you need to see life as it is. Understand it,
learn from it, then change it! Time trading will tell you how.
Review
If you could enjoy
your life based on your perception of time, value and money, would you? If you
could quit your job, bid a fond farewell to your boss and travel the world
while effortlessly generating multiple streams of income, would you start
packing now? If you said yes, then you are ready to read The
Time Trading Guru by Robert Renaud. If you are working 40 hours and
slavishly waiting for retirement, Renaud says you have an old school mindset.
For the last 20+ years, he has mastered the art of trading time or diversifying
income to lessen the gravity of economic changes. Time trading helps you
leverage life breaks and determine how you will spend your time whether it is
for one day or 10 years. Luxury is defined by perception.
Renaud is an
executive, creator of The Bureaucrats comic strip, entrepreneur, world traveler
and a father. I was swept away by his exotic travels. The conversations with
Jack (a talented but misguided executive who was relying on his corporate job
to provide for his financial future) helped convey his message. The chapter
about money was so comprehensive and detailed that it compelled me to
reconsider my notion of income. This book offers tips and eye-opening
discoveries about the mundane things (emails and multitasking) that erode our
time.
The Time
Trading Guru is for those
fearless souls who want to live life on their own terms.
Interview With the
Author
Hi Robert, thanks for joining me today to discuss your new book, The Time Trading Guru.
Who do you recommend
should read your book?
Everyone who works or doesn't, students, and the self-employed. Anyone who is looking to gain time back in their lives and who want a practical blueprint to become more fulfilled.
Everyone who works or doesn't, students, and the self-employed. Anyone who is looking to gain time back in their lives and who want a practical blueprint to become more fulfilled.
What sparked the idea
for this book?
My life, really. I've experienced richness, lived poor, and in all persevered by changing my perceptions of life. I realized I had been following a blueprint to a more fulsome life. I was using the levers of life: time, flexibility, and money and the DREAM process to take life breaks to reach my potentiality.
My life, really. I've experienced richness, lived poor, and in all persevered by changing my perceptions of life. I realized I had been following a blueprint to a more fulsome life. I was using the levers of life: time, flexibility, and money and the DREAM process to take life breaks to reach my potentiality.
What was the hardest
part to write in this book?
To get started. This was a several years of procrastination that finally bloomed.
To get started. This was a several years of procrastination that finally bloomed.
How do you hope this
book affects its readers?
I hope people learn that there is indeed a blueprint to living life more fully. We all have the power within us. It's using the levers of life: time, flexibility, and money to take life breaks and to begin living today.
I hope people learn that there is indeed a blueprint to living life more fully. We all have the power within us. It's using the levers of life: time, flexibility, and money to take life breaks and to begin living today.
How long did it take
you to write this book?
Several months. This time was harvested between my kids activities and just waiting.
Several months. This time was harvested between my kids activities and just waiting.
What is your writing
routine?
There is no routine, per se. I always carry a work book with me and I jot down ideas when they come to me.
There is no routine, per se. I always carry a work book with me and I jot down ideas when they come to me.
What advice do you
have for someone who would like to become a published writer?
Just write, the rest will works its way out.
Just write, the rest will works its way out.
What do you like to
do when you're not writing?
I like to draw, I’m a cartoonist as well.
I like to draw, I’m a cartoonist as well.
Please tell us a bit
about your childhood.
It was challenging. I lived with middle class values with a poor family pay check and experienced many of the social ills first hand. Despite these challenges, I was able to change my perspectives of life and reach many rewarding goals.
It was challenging. I lived with middle class values with a poor family pay check and experienced many of the social ills first hand. Despite these challenges, I was able to change my perspectives of life and reach many rewarding goals.
Who was your
favorite author as a child?
Funny enough, Dr. Seuss.
Funny enough, Dr. Seuss.
Do you hear from
your readers much? What kinds of things do they say?
I hear from my readers quite a lot. Like me, they are looking for value and meaning in their lives. They appreciate the blueprint that The Time Trading Guru provides them and share with me their stories of enlightenment.
I hear from my readers quite a lot. Like me, they are looking for value and meaning in their lives. They appreciate the blueprint that The Time Trading Guru provides them and share with me their stories of enlightenment.
What can we look
forward to from you in the future?
The Time Trading Guru lays a foundation of ideas and my readers can expect many of these ideas to flourish in a book on their own.
The Time Trading Guru lays a foundation of ideas and my readers can expect many of these ideas to flourish in a book on their own.
Thanks so much for taking the taking the time to talk to me today,
Richard. I wish you every success.
About the Author
Robert Renaud was born in Toronto, Ontario, grew up in Muskoka, and lived
in Ecuador for 2 years. For over 20 years he has slogged it out in the nine to
five world and is currently an executive . He has pursued his personal
interests with lively vigour, travelling, writing, and cartooning. His first
book, The Red Tape
Chronicles: The Bureaucrats, is a compilation of his cartoon strip, The Bureaucrats, the red tape comic
strip about life in the service. His latest book, The
Time Trading Guru, shows people how to embrace the time trading
principles of time, flexibility, and money, and the DREAM process to take life
breaks and to become personally fulfilled.
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