The Other 8 Hours by Robert Pagliarini

This was a motivational book about your other 8 hours.  In this book, the author shows that we sleep for 8 hours, work for 8 hours and then we have another 8 hours.  He gives a lot of great ideas of what to do during those other 8 hours to make money and do the things that you enjoy the most.  The first couple chapters motivate you to be creative with your other 8 hours and to get more out of your day.  He also lists life leeches to avoid with techniques on how to avoid them.  He shows you how to do something worthwhile with every minute of your day, even while waiting for an appointment or driving home from work.  In Chapter 5, he motivates you to stop being a consumer and begin being a creator. Chapter 8, which is almost 100 pages long, gives advice on how to make money at home in your other 8 hours.  He shows you step-by-step how to get into blogging, inventing, writing books, screenplays and music, starting a company, reselling, affiliating and licensing, taking advantages of fads/stunts, working for stock in a company, advancing or jumping careers, freelancing and turning hobbies into income.  He divides this chapter up into sections and at the end of each section, he lists websites (and what resources you can get from them) that can help you with each venture.  He also lays out a simple, step-by-step plan in each section.  Near the end of the book, he talks about scheduling your time to weed out unnecessary time wasters and to fill that time in with things you find more valuable, like spending more time with friends and family and learning new things every day.  I highly recommend this book to anyone that feels like they are not doing anything with their other 8 hours.  It motivated me to begin this blog!