Timothy Ferris burst onto the scene recently with The 4-Hour Work Week.

The book has a rah-rah vibe throughout, and is definitely inspiring and informative.

What I came away from it thinking though, was that the essential key to all of this is getting the passive income flowing in the first place.

While Timothy makes it sound like life was horrible with $70k a month coming in and being so busy — in my mind, once you have $70k a month profit flowing into your pockets it doesn’t seem all that hard (or a stretch) to hire a bunch of virtual assistants, etc. to take care of the workload.

For most people, just getting the $2-10k monthly passive, automatable or outsourceable income (or business profit) will be the most difficult part, not deciding where to live or what to do once you get there!

It is food for thought though — I could probably live in many exotic world locations on my current passive income level alone, so long as the cost of living was 40-50% less than here in the states.