3 × 8 · Your Compass for a Conscious Life
A hands-on book about using your 24 hours consciously — sleep, work, Me-Time. Not a rigid schedule, but a compass. Coming December 11, 2026.Available now.
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How much of your time actually belongs to you? Enter your date of birth, your sex and your country. We calculate with the remaining life expectancy at your current age — not at birth. Everything happens locally in your browser. No email, no account, no newsletter.
24 hours · every eighth emphasized = 3 × 8
Eight of every twenty-four hours a day — the time no one else gets to decide about. That’s the number “3 × 8” is all about.
This is not a reckoning with your past — it’s an invitation for today. No matter how many days lie behind you: the next one is yours.
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Three steps to a more conscious use of your time — to work through, not just to read.
Recognize what robs you of time and energy — and let it go.
Find out where you stand and what really matters to you.
Take one concrete step — with your personal compass.
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Not a time-management guide. A tool that makes real change happen.
You recognize what robs you of time and energy — and what you can let go of with a clear conscience.
You know again what really matters to you — instead of filling up your calendar and still feeling empty.
You take a concrete first step — with a 90-Day Compass that helps you stick with it.
Sleep, work and Me-Time come into balance — at your own pace, not by a rigid plan.
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For the book, I asked five people who deal with time, pressure and priorities differently.
“You have to create the right moment yourself — not wait for it to come along.”
“Experiencing instead of having — sharing instead of hoarding.”
“You can’t buy time. The only question is how you shape it.”
“Time is a liar: it can crawl and it can fly. There are two minutes that feel like 20, and 20 that feel like two.”
“Time has to adapt to me — not me to the little time boxes.”
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Since fall 2026 · #everydaycounts
Episodes in German
Five voices are in the book. The series doesn’t stop there: as a podcast, every guest gets the same 24 questions — eight about the past, eight about the present, eight about the future. Across the episodes, that creates something a normal interview can’t: you hear very different people answer the same question.
What does wasting time mean to you?
These are the 24 questions every guest answers — and they’re in the book, too. Bit by bit, the answers will appear here: from the podcast and from readers. The strongest ones will go into the next edition of the book.
First recordings in October.
Whose answers would you like to hear? Let me know — the series thrives on suggestions.
Reading is open to everyone. Joining the conversation comes with the book.
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Two voices frame the book — one personal, one scientific.
Foreword
Thought partner to the C-suite, HR professional, ex-CHRO/ex-CPO and supervisory board member
“Anyone who asks themselves what they are doing with their time now has a guide at hand in ‘3 × 8 – Your Compass for a Conscious Life.’ — A guide to self-leadership and to contentment with oneself.”
She opens “3 × 8” with a personal foreword — on why the conscious use of your own time now shapes leadership, health and satisfaction.
Afterword · A Scientific Perspective
Professor of International Human Resource Management, Newcastle University Business School
“… our lives are made up not of years, but of days. And each of those days, in turn, of many small decisions. Probably none of them alone will change our lives. But their sum will.”
He places the 3 × 8 idea in a scientific context and connects it with current research on work, recovery and self-leadership.
Transparency note: Member of the Supervisory Board of Leada AG.
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Frank Kübler was born on 30.8.69 — August 30, 1969, written day first, German style. Turn the zero into a multiplication dot: 3 · 8 . 69. Three times eight — it was there from the start.
“Twenty-four is the math. Yin and yang is the mindset.” What that means is on the last pages of the book.
Countdown to launch on December 11, 2026
Paperback, 196 pages — with 90 days of Leada included in the price of the book.
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“3 × 8” comes out on Friday, December 11, 2026. In the LinkedIn newsletter you’ll get an idea from the book every week, in English and German — and you’ll be among the first to know on launch day.
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New · The living edition
Eight of the most important exercises are also available as interactive tools — made for readers, right in your browser. You scan a QR code in the book and do the exercise on screen — no sign-up, no account, nothing stored. Each tool works on its own. Only at the very end do you get a ready-made prompt: one click hands it over to Leada, and a one-time impulse becomes lasting support.
Every interactive exercise in the book has a QR code that takes you straight to the matching tool.
You do the exercise on screen — no app, no sign-up, nothing stored.
Your result becomes a ready-made prompt. One click hands it over to Leada — and because it’s just text, it belongs to you: you can use it anywhere else, too.
Eight tools are ready for you:
By the way, the Life Clock at the top of this page is freely available to everyone. The eight tools are made for readers: they build on the exercise explained in the book.
A printed book that hands you over to lasting digital support — helping you not only plan your conscious life, but live it.
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The book is the beginning. If you want to go deeper after your 90 days, this is where it continues.
Your sparring partner after the 90 days included with the book: weekly reflection, 90-Day Compass, Comeback plan and your strengths — at your own pace, in your language.
Two days on the trail, one to one. Let go, recognize, act — not at a desk, but step by step. In English or German.
Looking for something for your team or company? Our team offers — books with personal dedication, talks and Leada for organizations — are currently available in German. See the German offers →
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For anyone who feels that time is slipping through their fingers — at work and in private life. You don’t need any prior knowledge, just a willingness to take an honest look.
As much or as little as you like. No musts, no quotas. You can do a single exercise in ten minutes — or work through the whole book over several weeks.
A book to work with. You write in it, reflect, decide. In the end you have your own 3 × 8 compass — not someone else’s recipe.
No. The book stands on its own. Leada is the next step if you want to stick with it — but it’s completely optional.
A conversation series about time in which every guest gets the same 24 questions — the same ones that are in the book. It started with the release of the German edition in October 2026; the episodes are in German for now. Free to listen — you don’t need the book.
Yes. You can read other people’s answers at any time — you don’t need anything for that. Readers of the book can add an answer of their own; the book explains how. With permission, the strongest answers go into the next edition.
Nothing automatically — no subscription, no credit card. If you want to continue, Leada costs €14.90 per month or €149 per year.
Yes, currently in German: volume prices from 25 copies, each with a personal dedication, plus talks and Leada for organizations. German offers
The English edition launches on December 11, 2026. Subscribe to the 3 × 8 LinkedIn newsletter — every week, in English and German. I’ll keep you company with ideas until launch and let you know the moment it’s out.