Second Cup: Make time to read
Before Breakfast
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning. This is Laura. |
| 0:41.0 | Today's tip is about how to make more time to read. |
| 0:45.0 | When I ask people what they want to spend more time doing, |
| 0:50.0 | exercise always comes up first, and don't worry. |
| 0:53.1 | We're going to talk a lot about that in future episodes. |
| 0:55.9 | But reading is a close second. |
| 0:58.8 | Indeed, if you'd asked me a few years ago what I wanted to spend more time doing I would have said reading books |
| 1:04.6 | I would have told you I was busy and I had very limited time to read. Then I tracked |
| 1:11.0 | my time for a year. A year, incidentally, when I had four children under the age of eight, including an infant, |
| 1:17.0 | which I thought was a pretty good excuse. |
| 1:19.0 | My time logs were clear. |
| 1:21.0 | My problem was not a lack of time to read. |
| 1:25.1 | I had spent 327 hours reading that first year, which is almost an hour a day. |
| 1:31.2 | But I couldn't remember many good books I had read. The truth is I had spent the |
| 1:36.0 | vast majority of those 327 hours reading online news stories and gossip magazines. |
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