Practical Applications To Achieve Reading Goals of The Year

Practical Applications To Achieve Reading Goals of The Year

Here’s a list of 10 practical applications to achieve your tangible, quantifiable reading goals for the year.

Document your progress through a reading journal

Document your progress through a reading journal

keeping a reading journal can boost your productivity.

Set aside a specific time of the day to devote to nothing but reading

Set aside a specific time of the day to devote to nothing but reading

Spare a few minutes every day to read.

Diversify your reading to prevent you from getting into a rut

Diversify your reading to prevent you from getting into a rut

Reading the same authors and genres can make you get into a rut.

Join a book club or reading group to keep up the motivation

Join a book club or reading group to keep up the motivation

Having a community of readers who uplift and motivate you.

Supplement your reading with audiobooks and e-books

Supplement your reading with audiobooks and e-books

you can physically read thirty and listen to audiobooks for the other twenty.

Pick up the books you’re most interested in first

Pick up the books you’re most interested in first

So if you start the year with books you’re most excited about, or books by already favourite writers, it’s easier to get into the reading mindset.

Track your goals on Goodreads

Track your goals on Goodreads

Tangibly seeing yourself slowly but surely moving towards a goal is very conducive to motivating yourself to achieve it.

Read in naturalistic settings or places away from home

Read in naturalistic settings or places away from home

If you have a reading nook at your home, you can redecorate it with quilts, candles, book stacks, plants and flowerpots.

Celebrate the milestones along the way

Celebrate the milestones along the way

When you reach a quarter, or half, of the number of books you want to read, take yourself out for a treat.

Don’t overcomplicate it, just read!

Don’t overcomplicate it, just read!

Whether it’s two words a day or two thousand, it doesn’t matter. Without anxiety or pressure, just read.