Top 10 Ways to Maximize Your Reading
1. You’ll read a book a week if you read a chapter in the morning and a chapter at night.
2. Leave a book in your car to kill time when you are waiting for people.
3. Keep a book in the bathroom.
4. Go to work a little early and down a couple chapters before the day gets busy. You’ll avoid traffic and grow in knowledge.
5. Instead of sitting in front of the TV all night, steal away for a few minutes of a relaxing read.
6. Download books and listen when you run, walk, or workout on your iPod.
7. Publish what you read and scan what others (like Bob, John, and Chris) are reading or what Dave and Tony are writing to keep your interest peaked and your horizons new.
8. Put down books that are boring. Don’t burn yourself out trying to read through a book that does not captivate you.
9. Review or excerpt books you read from time to time. You’ll spare people from wasting money on a lame book and help people to make a good investment on an exceptional book.
10. Keep a journal for your "to do" lists, big ideas, and thoughts. Among those notes, record the nuggets you got from each book. Then, loan out or give away the books you’ve finished.
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Love to read here!
Let me recommend “Big Russ and Me” by Tim Russert….wonderful book! Funny, enlightening, entertaining, encouraging, and inspiring.
Travis,
Helpful post, thanks. One thing I do is download books to my computer and burn them to CD from http://www.audible.com or http://christianaudio.com. It’s a lot cheaper than buying books on CD from Borders or wherever. I often get through a book a week just driving around.
11. Travel by public transport.
12. Be on good terms with the staff in your local bookstore.
13. Don’t afraid to skim a section of a book if it is going slow or not relevant, you can always re-read that later if needed.
14. If you are going to put a book down for a while, write a half page note about the what has been interesting so far and leave it at the point you got up to.
15. Join or start a reading group.