I'm doing 21 things
Just start reading
2 months ago
If we are talking about creating a habit of reading you cannot really say I’ve done this unless you have been working on it for a couple of months or better – years.
But it is not that bad. The process itself is very simple.
Just start reading. Get a book and read it.
Hints:
- Schedule some reading time. Find out whether you a morning person or evening person or maybe your best focus on reading is during 30 minutes break at work. Let nobody disturb your reading time.
- Get not one but more books. On different topics, books of different thicknesses, in different languages and so on so you always have a book going on that fits your current mood and state of mind.
- Take notes if you like! If it is a school reading it might actually be very useful. Otherwise it will “just” help you reflect on what you’re reading better.
- Don’t stop! It will get better after first pages/days/books read :) You will develop a habit of reading as well as your reading skills will improve.
- Talk about it. Read a book in a pair. Share your thoughts and emotions. Enjoy it.
Good luck!
P.S.: I am currently reading Ordering your private world by Gordon MacDonald, biography of Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic structures and I have couple of other books started (misc books on Christian life and relationships, some books by Nick Hornby). I have recently finished reading JPod by Douglas Coupland. Everything is recommended.
