Organizing Reading Materials, Read Faster Part 2
10 Days to Faster Reading
To organize your reading materials you have to make decisions on what items are important to you so you can make your reading pile manageable. The following suggestions on how to do that are from the book, “10 Days to Faster Reading” by The Princeton Language Institute and Abby Marks Beale.
1) Figure out what you are receiving and where it is coming from.
2) Take a piece of paper and write down all the reading material you are receiving: magazines, professional journals, newsletters, e-mail newsletters, etc.
3) Keep the list for one month.
4) Next, rate each piece, assessing its value to you and why you should keep it. If you can’t come up with a valid reason, cancel your subscription. If you have five or more unread back issues of any one publication, chances are you don’t have the time for it or are not getting value from it.
5) The items that you don’t have time for, toss in the recycle bin or pass it on. Local libraries are great places to donate magazines and books.
I think it’s also important to point out that you can read just the parts you are interested in. For some reason I used to get hung up on feeling like I had to read a magazine cover-to-cover. But now I realize that it’s OK to just read the articles I am interested in. One way I feel better about that is by donating my magazines to the library so someone else can enjoy them when I am done. Maybe they will read the articles that I didn’t!
Consider reading “10 Days to Faster Reading” so you can literally read and comprehend material faster; I am in the middle of reading it now and I have high hopes that I will devour more books! Decrease the amount of reading material you have on hand to help you read faster as well and you will be on your way to smaller stacks!
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