Contents:
The Power of Unpopular. How to Say It to Sell It. Will Work from Home. Soaring on Your Strengths. Putting your creativity to work and getting paid.
Their Insights and Secrets. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. Your Brand Is Your Business: Three Threats to Brand Relevance.
Leave the Office Earlier. Escape from Corporate America.
Cluttered Mess to Organized Success Workbook. Improve Your Time Management: Make the money come to your pocket with no job. The Perspiration Principles Vol. Take Back Your Time. The Art of Selling What Matters. Habit Stacking for Entrepreneurs: How to Quit Your Job: How to Be a Sales Superstar. The Six-Day Financial Makeover.
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Always have a plan for making money in the long run, even if you give things away for free. Most of the things a person can invest their found free time into falls into one of these ten categories, but the specifics vary widely from person to person. I had a great opportunity to get some of my fiction published in and I missed the boat on it, mostly because of my own fears. What makes you jump out of bed in the morning and tackle things?
In short, it can be your engine for creating things, creating value, and putting money in your pocket. The Other 8 Hours combines a lot of different elements into one package, drawing from career development, lifestyle design, and even a bit of time management.
Books and Reading Careers Personal Development. You work at least 8 hours. What are you doing in those remaining 8 hours of your day, and more importantly, what are the other 8 hours doing for you? To the bleary-eyed worker who doesn't have time to stop and catch his breath, the idea of having 8 hours may sound absurd.
If that's you, this is your wake-up call. Whether you want to pay off debt, make more money, start a business, develop a hobby, write a blog, or write the next great American novel, Robert Pagliarini will get you closer to living a richer, more fulfilled life. Chances are you are overworked, overscheduled, and overstressed. There's too much to do and not enough time. You can create hours of additional free time you never knew you had.
Traditional financial advice has likely left you frustrated and stuck. Pagliarini introduces new, highly-effective yet unconventional strategies.
In order to "get rich" you have to "get a life. With anecdotes and inspiration from many who have taken control of their other 8 hours, plus hands-on tools for getting started, minimizing risk, and maximizing success, you'll discover new ways to radically improve your life both personally and financially. Isn't it time to recapture your time and your life? Hardcover , pages.
Published January 5th by St. Martin's Press first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Other 8 Hours , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Sep 13, Emily rated it it was ok Shelves: Somewhat annoyingly optimistic and rah-rah-you-can-do-it! The general premise, that it is in the "other 8 hours" when we're not working our 9-to-5 or sleeping that we can really make something of our lives and get ahead, rings true.
But some of the suggestions for application were lacking or far-fetched. There are occasionall Somewhat annoyingly optimistic and rah-rah-you-can-do-it! There are occasionally brief interludes of quiet scattered across my day and if I'm lucky a couple of hours between my kids' bedtime and when I hit the sack.
I guarantee that doesn't add up to 8 hours. Yes, there are "LifeLeeches" I can trim out of my daily schedule, moments when I am not as productive as I could be. And I can follow his logic that being a "Cre8tor" rather than a consumer is how to build wealth and find satisfaction.
And the sophomoric humor sprinkled throughout got really old after a while. There are lots of references and resources, including companies that could prove useful, and I understand his website has current and updated information as well. Probably a good motivational book for those who need some inspiration and guidance on how to make the most of their downtime hint: For more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.
There was some familiar material here.
I loved the title of Chapter 11, "Stop Talking and Start Getting," but could pretty much recite verbatim the "pot roast story" he opens it with. He makes good use of it though, to contrast habits that drain us with the power of creating new habits that can take us to another level. Mark Joyner and Steve Chandler are not listed in the Endnotes or the Index, but I can hear them speaking in the background.
Seth Godin and David Allen too. All are favorites of t There was some familiar material here. All are favorites of this self-help non-fiction junkie.
If those aren't familiar names, you might do well with any of them, or go ahead and enjoy this one. It is very practical and down-to-earth. Pagliarini gets extra credit for admitting, on page , " It might not be popular to admit this, but our natural response is to decay. But then he goes on to show how and why it does not have to be that way. There may be a bit of a generation gap between this self-help reader and this author: Earlier today I wanted to be more energized while working, so I played some Vivaldi and Bach. Pagliarini says "If I crank up I can't help but get a boost of energy.
Sorry, this is supposed to be a book review, not a music blog. Feb 13, Dan rated it liked it.