I recently finished The Other 8 Hours: Maximize Your Free Time to Create New Wealth & Purpose by Robert Pagliarini.  The premise is if you sleep for 8 hours, and work for another 8 hours, you really only have the remaining 8 hours each day to truly “live.”  What you choose to do with that time largely determines your physical health, the quality of your relationships, your financial success, and your personal fulfillment.

the other 8 hoursThe Other 8 Hours serves as a great reminder that everyone on earth starts with the same input (time), yet we achieve vastly different outputs based on how we spend that time.  Ideologically, the book falls somewhere between Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Timothy Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek.  All three begin with the near-universal truth that nobody gets rich working a 9-5, and then branch off on their different paths on how to overcome that.  While Kiyosaki focuses more on investment strategies and Ferriss discusses automation and mandatory ignorance/isolation, Pagliarini offers some concrete actions that everyone can take to improve their personal and financial lives.  Since he’s not as extreme as Ferriss, I think this book will find a broader appeal.

I found the book full of inspirational stories from entrepreneurs and others who have escaped the rat race.  Pagliarini shares a lot of tips on how to free up more time, leverage your talents, and squeeze more productivity from each day.  He gets a little preachy toward the end, but it’s hard not to after 200 pages of rah-rah motivational, take charge of your life prose.  Even if you take away just one positive idea from the book, it’s well worth the read.

Every minute that goes by is one you’ll never get back.  Are you doing what you want to be doing?

And if you read nothing else, read page 183. :-)

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