Posted on: Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Even if your traffic levels drop (as they often do this time of year) you will still be given the same wonderful gift as everyone else – 60 minutes per hour to use as best you can. Time is one of those completely inflexible things. You get no more and no less than anyone else. Bill Gates and every ditch-digger on the planet are granted exactly the same amount of time. In other words, it’s not how much time you have – it’s how you use it.
So if the traffic is down and your environment slows down, use that time to invest in yourself. How? Simple – read a book. Find a book you’ve been wanting to read and dedicate yourself to reading it between now and the end of January.
If you want to do this right, follow these three reading enhancement tips:
1) Read every day. Let it become a habit for you. Don’t skip a day.
2) Read with a highlighter and pen close by. Do this so that you can read interactively, regularly spotlighting those areas that can have the greatest impact.
3) End every reading session with a time to either reflect more deeply or to apply what you learned. The idea is that this shouldn’t be about what you get out of the book. It should be about what the book gets out of you!
Simple yet effective, right? What? You need more motivation, you say? How about this quote from Mark Twain: “Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.” There – now pick up that book!!!!
All right folks, it’s commitment time. What are you going to read between now and the end of January? With my friend Roz Harris in Florida, I’m going to read (re-read, actually) The Inner Game of Selling by Ron Willingham.
What will you read………..?
