Hello, hello everybody. I'm Lexi Lombard, your host of the at Lexi podcast and thanks for tuning in.

I have read almost four books in the last three days.

I've made a reading goal for myself every year for the last three or four years.

And this is all for fun. It's a Me versus Me challenge. No one else is in the competition.

And it's just an incentive to get me reading for the love of reading and the pursuit of knowledge obviously this year it was 23 I keep track of my books on

an app and I saw that I was four books behind. Made a mental note of it. Figured, okay, let's speed this up a bit. How are we going to do this? Fast forward a few days. My friend and I got into a very interesting conversation and she told me how

she learned how to deal with it through a chapter of a book and by the end of it I asked what book it was and she said it's called

you are a badass when she said that I was like mmm that sounds like something that would be

in my audible library anything that has a corny title that I wouldn't be proud to display in my living room on my bookshelf.

I will download it as an audiobook and keep it all nice and tidy away. And confirm my suspicions I had New York Times bestseller

You Are a badass how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life

by Jen Scencero.

Cute book, inspirational, needs a better cover.

Do I judge a book by its cover?

Absolutely.

However, to listen to the entire book, five hours and 46 minutes,

and I normally am listening to a book at 1.2 or 1.5 speed.

So it's really only about four hours. Then I had a thought. Four hours and then I'm only three books behind on my reading goal. Let's do it. Four hours later, I have all the knowledge of you are a badass. I move on to the second one. That book, seven hours.

Done. Book after that, six and a half hours.

The book I'm listening to now, three hours and eighteen minutes left.

Suddenly when I see there's traffic, I'm not upset about it. More time to read.

I was picking up food yesterday, parked a little farther so I could put

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