Last month I mentioned in an email about how I like to read the Bible 3-4 times per year, including reading it in 41-days earlier this year.
Since writing that email, I finished it again last week – this time in exactly 14-days.
It’s not a race, and I don’t always read it that quickly.
But I enjoy the sense of continuity when I do read it that way.
Anyway, that email spurred this question that can apply to any thick books you want to read:
About today’s mail, it inspired and challenged me so much, I’ve been wanting to read the whole Bible in 6 months but I’ve only read 4 books so far ( 2 books from Old Testament and 2 from new Testament) and my excuse has been I don’t have time.
But looking at your activities, I don’t have any excuse.
I just work as Ghostwriter with a client, manage my church’s social media page, and then study my books/attend classes in Uni…that’s just it.
I just need to be more intentional, cut off distractions and do what I need to do.
I approach it like reading any fat book in a thin amount of time:
* Take the number of pages in the book you want to read
* Divide that number by the number of days you budget to read it
* And then… do it
So for example:
If you want to read it in 6 months like he does, and if it is, say, 1200 pages… you simply divide 1200 by 180 days (6 months), and you get 6.66 (ooh) pages per day to do it, which you can round up to 7 pages to get it done even sooner.
Anyone can read 7 pages per day.
You could read 4 pages upon rising and 3 pages before bed.
Or 3 pages in the morning, 2 pages in the afternoon, and 2 pages at night.
You could do that almost without even trying.
That’s how you plow through thick books, or even entire book series.
It’s one reason I laugh at people who complain they don’t “have time!” to read. They have lots of time to read. Too much time, probably, on their hands. They just choose to squander it on stupidity like social media, TikTok, and arguing with people online.
So it is.
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