This week’s Consumerism Commentary Podcast features Robert Pagliarini, author of the book The Other 8 Hours: Maximize Your Free Time to Create New Wealth and Purpose. Robert talks with Tom Dziubek and discusses meaningless activities that eat away at the spare time in our lives and how to use that time more efficiently.

Table of contents

[00:00] Introduction from Flexo
[00:35] Interview with Robert Pagliarini
– [00:49] The Other 8 Hours
– [05:07] Dead time
– [08:06] Optimizing dead time
– [10:30] Stop consuming and start creating
– [13:18] Budgeting your time
– [15:20] Traditional financial planning
– [18:06] Life Leeches
– [22:28] The “Cre8tor”
– [24:21] Spending time on life leeching activities
[27:34] End

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Flexo, the founder of Consumerism Commentary, has been blogging and writing for the internet since 1995 and has been building online communities since 1991. Find out more about him and follow him on Twitter. View all articles by Flexo.

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