Save Articles To Read Later

An excellent principle to live by is to do any task whichrequires less than 5 minutes to do it immediately, and you can schedule othertasks. But it is essential to do them eventually, or you would end up with apile of responsibilities and a lot of stress.

Do you intend to read a lot and then push them to the end ofday, only to never read – then you can benefit by simple tweaks in your life.

Dedicate time, prioritize things, and be strong in yourdiscipline – these three things can help you get more out of your life.

On Reading

Traveling is a delightful experience where you can meetpeople from different cultures, eat food which looks different and is tasty,and experience the landscape of nature which soaks you in.

But as it is said, the journey is as important as thedestination – if you are traveling, you should try to do it with people whomyou love – friends, family, and colleagues. As such, you are bound toexperience a healthy conversation, funny banters, and memories which will stayfor a lifetime.

And if you are traveling alone, often you would take up yourphone and start listening to songs or play a game on the phone.

Sure, those are things which you can do to pass the time – abetter thing you can do is read a book, magazine or newspaper. Reading is abeautiful, simple, yet profound thing you can do with your time.

It challenges you, teaches you, and makes you smarter at theend of it. Also, the stories connect, and you gain experience, lessons, andinsights which the author has accumulated over her life years. That’s a sweetbargain for the price of a cup of coffee.

Web links and Books

This habit of reading books made you try out new books inthe making because there are a little risk and a potential fortune as a reward.

So now when you find yourself with free time, you read somearticles on the web written by people whom you admire and sometimes fromunknown people. So you subscribe to them – now whenever they write something,they notify you with an email.

Every day, your routine is now to check the email, click onall the emails and read them, which are a good practice to start your day witha positive vibe.

But sometimes when you are bombarded with many things to do,you bookmark those articles and go about doing something else. Of course, you willget to them later, but you don’t. And now there is a pile of articles which youhave bookmarked and not read. At this point, the list is so big that you wouldneed an hour or two to get it all completed.

Somehow you don’t get the time to have another look at them.Something or other thing comes in the way. And the cycle continues – new emailscoming in every day.

Procrastination

One of the things which are responsible for your decline inreading is procrastination. Often when you have some time, you procrastinateabout ten things you need to do and get only a handful of them done.

There is too much planning going on and fewer things gettingdone. Also, sometimes you don’t remember you need to get back to reading.

So at the end of the day when you find yourself with sometime, you pick up the phone and start watching some cat videos.

Time passes by, and you click on another video and then onemore – pushing yourself to lose time because the video is entertaining. At onepoint, you lose track of time and everything else, you are mindlessly surfingthe videos – some good, some entertaining but most of no use.

The moment you realize you have wasted so much time whichcould be used to read something or work on your project or do some exercise –it is too late.

And now you need to go on to the next thing on the list, thearticles which you have bookmarked have lost in the deeper sea from which ithas become difficult to retrieve them.

Dedicated Time

One way to solve this is to have your life set toprioritization. You have to decide which three things are essential to you. Ifreading isn’t that important, then it’s okay if you read some articles and pushothers into darkness forever.

But if reading has a place in your life which decides yourcharacter, projects, and ambition, then you need to have a dedicated time forit.

Open up your calendar and block at least an hour every dayor 3 hours every week. That way you won’t have any other appointments at thattime.

For example, block afternoon on Thursday for doing nothingexcept reading. So open up all the bookmarked links, disconnect the internetand take your laptop to the park or some peaceful place. And get lost intoreading, grasping, and challenging your viewpoints.

All comes down to habit, discipline, and ability to say noto someone. Once you have scheduled your calendar, say no to anyone if theyrequire your blocked time for reading. This way, you will ensure nothing comesin between you and your peaceful reading time. When the time comes, push toutilize the whole time to reading alone, this will built a habit of continuousreading. And this routine will help you be more disciplined in other blockedtime too for various activities.

If painting, writing code or dancing is more important toyou than reading, then you can use the same approach and mentality to bring outthe best in you by investing a chunk of your time in studying them.