I've read in the region of 250 books across 4 years and managed to develop some good habits for getting through books.
1) Aim for one book a month or one book every two weeks. Divide the number of pages by the days in your chosen time frame and commit at all costs to reading your set number of daily pages.
2) Take opportunities like going to the toilet, catching the train, being driven somewhere, waiting for food to cook and the 20 minutes before you sleep for the night to get some pages read.
3) Get an ebook version and listen to this while shopping, walking the dog, driving to work or any other redundant time where holding a book is not possible.
Getting a couple of pages in here and there every day adds up very quickly and before you know it, it's become a habit. I do stress though that you must be really interested in the content of the book or the motivation just dips and if your forcing yourself to read through it anyway, the information doesn't sink in.
1) Aim for one book a month or one book every two weeks. Divide the number of pages by the days in your chosen time frame and commit at all costs to reading your set number of daily pages.
2) Take opportunities like going to the toilet, catching the train, being driven somewhere, waiting for food to cook and the 20 minutes before you sleep for the night to get some pages read. 3) Get an ebook version and listen to this while shopping, walking the dog, driving to work or any other redundant time where holding a book is not possible.
Getting a couple of pages in here and there every day adds up very quickly and before you know it, it's become a habit. I do stress though that you must be really interested in the content of the book or the motivation just dips and if your forcing yourself to read through it anyway, the information doesn't sink in.