5 steps to read one book per week
1% better every day at 11:11am - newsletter #020
From the age of 18, I never took a book in my hands. I didn’t understand how you could “waste your time” reading when you could go to YouTube instead. It will take 12 years and the thirties crisis to see a change.
I read one book in 365 days in 2016. Then every 30 days in 2017, every 15 days in 2018 and every 10 days in 2019. This year I am at 29 books in 25 weeks.
Reading has become an essential part of my morning routine and a real pleasure! But it's like everything else. To be able to read regularly, you have to learn how to do it. Motivation will get you started, but it's setting up a system that will keep you on track.
here's the system I used to do it :
Define an “achievable” objective. If you read 5/6 books a year, don’t try to jump to 30 per year. As in sport, you will make yourself a snap.
Define the unit “one book”. Reading an 800-page book does not take the same time as reading a 100-page book. Personally, I opted for “one book = 400 pages”. So if I read a little 200-page book, I try to read another 200 pages.
Break down the objective into small steps. For example, if you want to read a 400-page book every month, that’s 14 pages to read per day. I therefore recommend that you read 10 pages in the morning before going to work and 4 pages in the evening before going to bed. Yes, it sounds stupid, but people don’t do it ("because I'm not going to read just four pages, eh!”). To count on the weekend to “catch up” with your planning is a mistake. I speak knowingly.
Always have one book in advance on your book-list. This prevents you from taking 1 or 2 days between two readings, because you do not know on which book to continue
Read on Kindle (or another reader). For 3 main reasons: Easier to track the % of reading + you can always have it with you + you can buy your next book at any time. So no excuse!
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ONE QUOTE TO SHARE
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ONE ARTICLE TO READ
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ONE QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF
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ONE WORKOUT TO DO
Time : 20 à 30min
60sec plank hold + 10x plank switches + 10x squats
120sec plank hold + 20x plank switches + 20x squats
180sec plank hold + 30x plank switches + 80x squats
120sec plank hold + 20x plank switches + 20x squats
60sec plank hold + 10x plank switches + 10x squats
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How to do > plank hold / plank switches / squats
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