The Other 8 Hours
Have you ever known people who seem to have energy that you can only dream of? Have you ever wondered why some people are able to be much more productive than others? One of the best books that I have read that sums up everything about the need to make the best use of our time in order to live the life we want is The Other 8 Hours: Maximize your Free Time to Create new Wealth & Purpose by Robert Pagliarini.
How Much Time Do You Need?
A lot of people in the world of network marketing keep their day jobs. This is something that Pagliarini advocates in his book. In this case, you may be arguing that you are totally exhausted by your day job and you can really do is just unwind at the end of the day and relax. If you are exactly where you want to be, this is just fine. However, if you want something else, the time do that is the time between work and sleep. Pagliarini argues that devoting more time to things that build us up is the only way to have the life we want.
There are several ideas that I think are very interesting in the book to get people started. One of them is something that he calls “boosting,” or finding a job with little-to-no effort required where someone is present. For college students, sitting at the sign-in desk at the dorms or a computer center is an option. For others, working as a clerk at a low-traffic hotel or at a fitness center where you can use the time sitting there to read. This is something that I think is valuable for someone who wants to get involved in business, but is looking for seed money.
A Great Time-Management Tip
My favorite piece of advice in this book is the concept of “bunching.” Bunching is a smarter way to multitask. The concept of bunching is different because it divides activities into two groups: head activities and body activities. The idea is to do one while you are doing the other whenever possible. One example is listening to something educational while driving. When doing this, it gives you more time to spend with your loved ones, and isn’t that what personal development and time management are all about?
Are You a Cre8or?
The most important elements of building a personal income through business is to make money doing what you love. Creating something of value or doing something you have always wanted to do can only be done in your other eight hours. The book has an inventory of some of the key moments in life, and the question of whether these occurred at work, school, or in the other eight hours. I think that most of us will admit that it is the other eight hours. If you have always wanted to learn a foreign language, this is how you do it. If you have wanted to learn a new skill, this is how. If you wanted to write a book, this is how. Robert Pagiarini has a term for people like this: Cre8ors. So, are you a Cre8or?
Tags: Personal Development, Robert Pagliarini, The Other 8 Hours, time management
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August 16th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I love the Bunching tip!
I have a tendency to do a lot of my learning while I’m folding laundry, doing dishes, walking, driving etc. but I never stopped to think about the Head vs. Body thing!
Great post Steve!
Heather
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August 16th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Hey Nicholas,
Great stuff here! Personally I like to chunk my large tasks down so that they are more manageable and what I typically do is that I create what I call a “mind map” and on there I can order activities in order of importance so that I can determine the ones that will be most profitable for my business.
Great advice here my friend
Keep up the good work!
See you at the top,
Michael Stead
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August 17th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Thank you for your reply, Heather! I, too, did a lot of bunching when I was doing laundry. Until recently, I had to go to the laundromat, so there is the old adage about laundry being so boring that it can’t help but give us the chance to do something else productive
It is amazing how it can be true that some things are great not because of anything visionary, but the way that it presents the familiar.
August 17th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Thank you for your reply, Michael! I touched on some of that in my previous post, one where I give an example of thinking that I learned from my sixth-grade teacher. Mind maps and vision boards are great told to help us see our goals. Thanks for the tip!
August 25th, 2010 at 1:50 am
I really enjoyed this post Steve. I’m going to have to get this book. I definitely spend all of “the Other 8 hours” on my business…actually that and then some!
The idea of bunching is cool- can’t wait to get that book!
- Natasha
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August 25th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Thank you for your reply, Natasha! It is a very good book, and there are a lot of things of value in the book. It seems to hit on time management, personal development, and business all at once, and it doesn’t feel scattershot when it does so. I hope you enjoy it!
February 9th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Steve the Owl's Blog » Blog Archive » A Simple Time Management Solution says:[...] out that I gave myself a lot of extra time because I was bunching my time. (In my previous post on The Other 8 Hours, I outlined the principle of bunching, namely that someone can multitask by doing a head activity [...]