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Friends who've been trying to develop a reading habit during this #lockdown, here are my 2 cents from having tried to read a book every week last year. Hope you will find this helpful! #reading #books 
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First things first, let's strategise! Try to commit to a reading goal for this year. You have 8 more months. If you havenât read any books in the last year, start with a goal of 4 books a year. That would be 1 book every 2 months. (2/10)
If you read 4 books last year, make it 8. That would be a book every month.
If you did a book a month last year, make it 16. That would be 2 books a month.
Goal setting (excluding the execution) sounds so much fun and math right?
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If you did a book a month last year, make it 16. That would be 2 books a month.
Goal setting (excluding the execution) sounds so much fun and math right?
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So now that you've committed to a goal - it's a nice forcing function to keep you going. But you know what's better? A forcing function that's made public. Tell your friends about your goal! Or like me, you could use @goodreads #2020 #challenge to do it. (4/10)
Now, how difficult can this get? It's going to be hard 
. Reading would require your time and attention. But remember this - struggling to make progress with a book doesn't make you any less of a reader. It's just that reading can get hard with some books, and easy with others.
. Reading would require your time and attention. But remember this - struggling to make progress with a book doesn't make you any less of a reader. It's just that reading can get hard with some books, and easy with others.
Since it's going to be hard, try to plan for it. For example, try to keep some time for reading every day. I ended up blocking an hour every day for reading and it wasn't enough to get to my 52 books goal last year. But like @peterthiel said, "A bad plan is better than no plan".
When I request you to plan, your main plan shouldn't be taking a book with you while going to bed or when going to take a poop. Give undivided attention and time that you'd have otherwise allocated for something important to you (work, Netflix, anything). (7/10)
Now while you're at it, prepare for your plan getting derailed. That's okay. Some books would take more time, and the others would take less. There are months when I ended up reading just 1 book and months when I read more than 8 (towards the goal of 52). So just keep showing up!
Last but not the least, try to find some time to reflect on what you learnt from a book. You'll love doing it. So all the best! As the Chinese proverb goes, "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." Keep at it slowly and you'll enjoy the process! (9/10)
Here's a post I wrote about trying to read a book a week last year - https://medium.com/@tmatthewj/my-learnings-from-a-book-a-week-experiment-in-2019-2b22a0a9d992. Hope you will find it useful. Take care and stay safe! 
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