10 benefits and techniques to setting and keeping reading goals

I was already reading about 25 books a year. I declared that I was going to read 100 books a year and wrote it down. I have been doing this for two years and I actually read closer to 130 bucks a year.

in order to read 100 books in a year you have to consistently read two books a week. At first I made sure to sandbag some short books early in the year.

do all my listening at three times speed if the narrator speaks quickly or there’s a lot of background noise. I can slow this down

is important for a number of reasons. It helps you keep track of how many books you’re reading. My spreadsheet, I have the book count column, which is game vacation, the date that I read it, the title, the author, and a link to any no PD or other resource.

also have a column for the category and I have a spreadsheet macro that tells me how many books are self-help or fiction or biography.

Simply seeing the title of a book could bring back a pretty precise recollection of it. Because I read so many books I can’t always remember them, but when I see the list, I do recall the content of many of the books. There are a small handful at this point that I really don’t remember that I didn’t get much out of.

For example, I wanted to read the rise and fall of the third Reich, which was over 35 hours long. I had some other books going and it took a few weeks to finish it, but I was able to make my pace. also read the original Mary Shelley Frankenstein the same way.

I end up walking my dog up to two hours a day. I also try to do meditations and occasionally phone calls during this time, but I have read dozens of books on my walks. You could do the same thing with commuting or exercising and just make audiobooks part of your activity.

is useful because it forces me to pay attention and I get a lot more out of the book. When I’m walking, I have my Notes app open and if I hear something in the book that I like, I simply press the microphone button and dictate speech into the app. The speech recognition is Good enough. Then I will transfer these notes into Obsidian.

Make a notepad list

have an excellent app from my library, which is free to use and I can make a wish list or add books and check out a number of them at a time. I always have a few things in a list.

will set you up to read more advanced books on the similar topic or simply just have a deeper understanding. For example, if you like reading books about military activity, you can compare and contrast against your previous knowledge.