One Thursday evening, you get a notice from library: It’s time to pick up your copy of the book you’ve had lying around on your nightstand for three weeks now. You flip through to see how many pages remain, and you feel a knot form in your gut. Whether you’re usually an organized person or […]

The covers look nice. The reviews sound promising. With good intentions, you purchase a book. “This time,” you think, “I’m going to read.” Three weeks later, your book remain untouched on your nightstand and your ambition has been replaced by guilt. Why does it keep happening? Most readers don’t approach books as a practical project; […]

Why do most readers fail? They lump together the entire week into a single chunk of time rather then seven distinct opportunities. They begin strongly on Monday… then something happens in real life on Wednesday, so on Friday they’re running behind and need to play catchup. It’s not really an issue of self-control, mostly it’s […]

But you get frustrated when there’s a gap between completing one book and beginning the next. Even though you remember that you read yesterday, your bookshelf remains loaded. Sure, you opened the cover…but where are all those completed books? Why don’t they adds up to hours spent reading? Time doesn’t transform itself directly into books. […]