In Four Focus Areas for Frugal Digitalism<\/a>, I talked about how to save money by taking advantage of free audio opportunities. Free content, however, is only valuable if you’re mindful of how and why you listen. In this article, I lay out a framework for improving your digital listening habits and getting more out of the time you spend with your digital audio content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most people queue up their favorite Spotify playlist and start listening without asking why. More specifically, they don’t take the time to assess whether they’re getting meaning out of what they listen to. That’s why it makes sense to take a step back from your music, podcast, or audiobook and focus on being more intentional listening. So before you begin your journey to audio enlightenment, start by asking yourself a series of questions about your listening habits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you answered “Yes” to the question about whether your listening habits contribute to your life goals, then congrats – you can stop reading. But, assuming you’re like most of us, the answer to the life goal question is at least partially “No.” In this case, when you encounter a playlist, music station, podcast, or audiobook that doesn’t align with your goals, stop listening and start the process of listing out which goals you’re falling short on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take a look at what audio content does<\/em> add meaning to your life and has enabled you to accomplish your goals. Assign that meaningful content to a thematic category. For any life goals that don’t have meaningful content associated with them, create general thematic categories against which you’ll start assigning content. Personally, I’ve organized my weekly listening habits around six different themes, each with a very specific life-purpose in mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find plenty\nof free or ad-supported content on the web to match the themes, a few great\noptions include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n See the Four Focus Areas for Frugal Digitalism<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you’ve found\nfree content, it’s simply a matter of plugging that into each thematic category\nand assigning that a day or time of the week in which to list. For me this\nbreaks down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you have your themes defined, content integrated, and playlists ready to go – it’s time to execute your plan. Simply start listening and fill your time (the car ride to-and-from work, your work out, during meal preparation) with the wholesome and free content to help you accomplish your life goals<\/p>\n\n\n\n Disclaimer:<\/strong> <\/em>This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Four Focus Areas for Frugal Digitalism, I talked about how to save money by taking advantage of free audio opportunities. Free content, however, is only valuable if you’re mindful of how and why you listen. In this article, I lay out a framework for improving your digital listening habits and getting more out of the time you spend with your digital audio content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,4,51],"tags":[23,6,8,7,20,19,24,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livelifedigital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Step 1: Put Down the Spotify and Ask Why<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 2: Shift the Focus to What Matters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 3: Lay Out Logical Listening Themes Around Your\nGoals<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 4: Explore Content That Aligns with Your Themes<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 5: Plug Content Into Each Theme<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 6: Execute<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n