Eight Hours - What Could You Do With the Time Your Phone Steals?

Eight Hours - What Could You Do With the Time Your Phone Steals?

June 8, 2026 · 8 min · Season 1 · Episode 77

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The episode discusses the significant amount of time our phones can steal from us and how that time could be better spent.

“Eight hours of my time last week. What else could I be doing with that?” Welcome back to the NLP UK Training podcast! Hosted by NLP Trainers Steve Kay and Kali Fraser from NLPUKTraining.com – a leading provider of NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner certification in the UK. In this episode, Steve and Kali pick up where the last one left off and turn the spotlight from connection back to the question we’d rather not answer: how much time is your phone actually taking from you? It starts with their podcast recordist Carl showing Kali the screen time setting on her iPhone that morning. Kali confidently guessed a couple of hours a week. The real number? Eight hours. In a single week. Steve, smugly, had his screen time tracking switched off – so he gets a free pass for now, but admits he probably wouldn’t fare much better. From that one number, the conversation opens up into something bigger. How often do we tell ourselves we “haven’t got time” to learn something new, look for a different job, paint the spare room, do a course, get coaching – while a quiet eight hours a week disappears into scrolling we barely remember? Steve and Kali run the maths (kind of) and the point lands…

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