How to Read Over 30 Books This Year: Leap Year W19

Welcome back to the Leap Year, where I share helpful tips on how you can finally take the “Leap” and pursue, discover, and achieve your dreams. I wanted to share a strategy that I learned in W19 of my Leap Year process that will allow you to read over 30 books this year.

In the past, I had no problem finding and buying interesting books, it was just finding the time to read them. I would be faced with 5 to 10 books with the NEW label every time that I opened iBooks.

I would tell myself “tomorrow, or this weekend I will start…” but the truth of the matter is that I would not even get a chance, as I thought I did not have enough time.

This strategy strategy helps you overcome PROCRASTINATION, and provides the steps to follow when you tell yourself “I CAN’T because I do not have enough time…

Read More: With the access of information today, there in no lack in finding information from someone who has done what we want to do. From videos, to blogs, websites and books, there is an abundance of resources.

I have found that digital books are my preference of choice. I upload new books frequently and read during my WT (Waiting Times)during the week. The issue for me has been finding the time to read more of the books that I have downloaded and process the information, so I can turn them into specific actions.

Enter James Clear. I was looking at a blog post and saw the exact title, “Read More.” This strategy is very straight forward, all you need is a book. His simple strategy is to read 20 pages per day. That is it.

If you read 20 pages per day for four weeks, a month, you would have read 560 pages. Two months, 1120 pages. Three months, 1680 pages. This is only if you read 20 pages. Imagine how much you could read if you read a little more other times throughout the day?

By following this simple rule you could read nearly 36 books in a year. Additionally, the knowledge you gain starts to grow like compound interest, or the interest or gains that you earn start to work for you.

The graph of an exponential graph starts out slow but grows very quickly after the initial stages. Look below:

Their is little growth from 0–20, but shoots up from there to greater and greater heights after that.

Another example is if you took a regular size paper and kept folding it in half. By the 30th fold the width of the paper would be able to reach from the earth to the moon. The moon! Our minds can’t grasp the idea of compound growth, but it has huge ramifications.

This week I started implementing this strategy and uploaded books on Sunday and read 20 pages throughout the day. James says it is better to read all the pages in one sitting, but the key is to get to 20. I had to read 10 pages in the morning and had to get the other 10 throughout the day. Let’s see where it takes us!

Thanks for tuning in and you can see more insights from W19 by heading over to my Leap Year blog.