Expand Your Knowledge-Read 10 Pages a Day
Written by Debbie on August 11th, 2007 in You Can Do It.
A friend told me once during a business meeting that taking time to read can open my mind and expand my knowledge.
He then stated “before you tell me, your are too busy to read, try this”.
Pick a book you have been meaning to read and just read 10 pages a day.
Read the 10 pages during your morning coffee, take a few minutes and sit outside in the fresh air and read the 10 pages.
You will be surprized that by only reading 10 pages a day you could almost read a 300 page book in a month.
Let’s break it down:
Reading 10 pages a day in 7 days adds up to 70 pages. Now multiply this by 4 the number of weeks in a month and this adds up to 280 pages.
When our meeting came to an end, this stayed with me. So when I got home I went to my book shelf and looked at the books I had sitting on the shelves waiting for me to read them over the past several months, some I even had for over a year and the pages had yet been opened, their stories and knowledge left undiscovered.
As I browsed through the books and picked up some of them I checked out how many pages they each had.
Here are some of the books I looked at:
The Slight Edge “Secret to a Successful Life”- 168 pages
By Jeff Olson
The Healing Power of Pets - 270 pages
By Dr. Marty Becker
Life Strategies - 282
By Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
Just looking at these 3 books I could have read these books in about 3 months instead of leaving them sitting on the shelf for 12 months.
So do yourself and your books a favor………read 10 pages a day!
You Can Do It
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