Was there a time when you have not heard about the importance of reading books? The answer is definitely a ‘No’. I don’t have to give you reasons to read books. Everyone knows that books are one of the key habits of highly successful people. But how did they make that habit? What do they read? Does reading just made them successful or something more needs to be done?
Common excuses for not reading:
• Books are expensive: A lot of people do not want to spend money on a book which they are going to read for one time and keep it aside. You can always borrow books from the library or read them online.
• Books are difficult to maintain: “I buy a lot of books. But they get dusty easily. I don’t know how to maintain.” You can always hire someone who
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It changes by implementing what you have read. Don’t finish a self-help book overnight and wait for miracles to happen the next morning. Change is a gradual process. Read a chapter a day. Implement them. Become a person which was described in the chapter and them move to the next one.
• They are just a way to kill time and there are many ways to do it: There are many ways to kill time. They might be productive or destructive. A wise person always chooses productive way to a destructive way.
How to make it a habit?
• Start with your favourite genre: If you don’t have any favourite genre, read a few book summaries to see what you like better. Start reading a book with that.
• Start small: Don’t try to read the entire chapter on the first day. Read only one page each day in the first one week. Then increase it to two pages a day in the second week. Keep increasing the number of pages a day based on your comfort level.
• Trigger the action: Set a time each day when you are going to read it. If you can’t pull out time in your daily schedule, have a location trigger. You can open book and start reading when you are in queue or waiting for a