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Time and How to Spend It
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Time and How to Spend It

The Upping Your Elvis Podcast

Chris Barez-Brown, Jim Lusty and James Wallman
The Upping Your Elvis Podcast, 2019
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Quick! You’ve got 15 minutes of free time before your next meeting. What do you do? The draw of the screen is strong. But is there something you could do – apart from scrolling through social media – that leaves you with a more meaningful experience? What if you’ve got a couple of free hours? A whole weekend? A three-week vacation? The decisions you make about how you spend this time will largely determine the quality of your life. In this episode of the Upping Your Elvis podcast, guest and best-selling author James Wallman offers some advice on how to spend your time wisely.

Summary

In the UK, the average person has about five hours of free time per day. Many spend the majority of that time using their digital devices.

In the past, people had two main options for communicating with one another: You could either speak with someone who was right in front of you, or you could communicate through paper letters, sent via mail.

Imagine people sitting down at their desks to work, but before they start, they pop up and run to the mailbox to see if any letters have arrived. Then they go back, sit down to work, and in the middle of their work session, they run back to the mailbox to see if a letter has come. Then, at the end of the day, before going to bed, they run back to the mailbox to see if a letter has arrived now.

It sounds absurd, yet this is how most modern people behave today. The majority of individuals check their emails...

About the Podcast

James Wallman is the CEO of the World Experience Organization, and the best-selling author of Stuffocation and Time and How to Spend It. In the Upping Your Elvis podcast, author and entrepreneur Chris Baréz-Brown and speaker and innovator Jim Lusty do different experiments to find out how to get people’s energy right, so they can get their extraordinary on.

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    F. H. 2 years ago
    Good
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    V. B. 2 years ago
    Grear tips and true. Wise use of time is the essencs of life. Most peolple unfortunately wastw time in just watching videos etc which are of no valus to them. Time is the besr resource. Its proper use must be the top most agenda of every humn being.