“Five years from now you will be the same person you are today, except for the food you eat, the people you meet, and the books you read.”
According to my friend Jared Brock’s math, you need to invest only 27.5 minutes per day in order to read 50 books per year. (That is for those whose reading speed is on the lower end of 250 words per minute. For those with a high of 400 WPM, they could read 80 books a year.)
Jared says that all it takes is “a little discipline and a few environmental tweaks.”
When I discoveredaudio books I listened to at least 10 books more per year, just during my driving time. But you can also use these for exercise or household task time.
Keep a book with youalways forwait times. Bank lines, grocery lines, medical appointment times, customer service calls, computer issues.
Swap time: screen time for book reading time. (Take a tally of how much screen time you watch in a week, and trade “up” part of that total for a good book. (This is a challenge, even for a reader like me. Screen time is soeasy.)
