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Feel good travel. Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emmagun show.

I am your host, Emmagan Awardner.

And in this episode, because it's a mini show

and the midweek shows tend to cover habits,

we're going to go back to a habit that we're all quite familiar with and

it's the reading habit and you may be thinking, come on Emma, we talk about

reading a lot and you will be right and the truth is I probably talk about it more than I do it.

Reading isn't the only thing I can say that about but the point being is it is obviously a point of frustration for me because I wish I read more and yet I find it really really difficult and it's not that I don't want to read I feel ridiculously I feel ridiculous constantly

admitting that I'm not reading as much as I'd like because I want to learn

reading what other people have to say about the world or sharing

their experiences or the stories that come from their imaginations are amazing and incredible and I

want it.

And it's so accessible. But reading seems to be that thing that I have made into a really big deal in my head.

Do you know what I mean? Like, when you think about any big task and it becomes bigger in your mind than it is in reality.

So if you think, oh, I've got to, I don't know, I've got to deep clean the oven and you think about all of the things that make up doing that and you don't do it and

then actually it's really only half an hour of your life and it's not that bad.

Or cleaning the bathroom or when you have to tidy out something or I don't know

wash the car just those things that you put off because you just think oh it's just too much like hard work anyway

so when I think about reading I tend to think I need calm I need a lot of time I need to have completely cleared my

to do list so there's nothing else that I need to be doing because in my mind

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