3 Tips For Those Who Want to Read More

So you want to read more books this year? 

Life is busy. How do you carve out time to grow through reading? Here are three tips from Coach John for to get more reading in this year:

1.Put up the books that you do not enjoy. 

You buy a book because you are drawn to it. Then, you get a good way in, and it’s not what you thought. But you spent the money, and you’re one of those type-A people who have to finish what they started. 

What’s the trade-off if you keep going in the book? You are sapping all your reading energy into something you don’t care about or connect with. 

I was in two different books that I didn’t enjoy reading. I felt this compelling feeling to finish them.  But then I decided to put them both away, maybe for another time or maybe for good. I immediately got my reading mojo back and was into two new books that I couldn’t put down. 

2. If you can’t sleep at night, get up and read. 

Give it a try. You know you’re just going to lay in bed and look at tik-tok videos. If you wake up and you can’t go back to sleep, put your phone down and pick up your book. You’ll either fall back to sleep, or be more productive with your time.  

3. Consistently delete social media from your phone. 

I know you can’t live without it, but just try deleting those apps. Then once a day or twice a day, redownload them again to check it. Once you’re done checking it, redelete the apps. 

I know it sounds tedious, but you’ll start to pick up your phone, and really think if you want to spend 10 minutes watching videos of people dancing or 10 minutes in the next chapter of your book. 

Those little changes can free you up to read more and grow more this coming year. 

By Coach John