Coaching practices for Books Per Year Reading

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• I keep meaning to learn and grow but barely finish a book a year, while telling myself I’ll "get to it"
• There’s a stack of books I keep meaning to get to, and I keep telling myself I’ll read when I "find the time"
• I sit down to read on my phone and ten minutes later I’m three apps deep with no idea how I got there
• Every year I pile new goals on top of an already-overloaded life and wonder why none of them stick
• I only do this kind of slow, prayerful reading on retreat days or quiet weekends and then drop it the moment normal life resumes

Practices that may help

1. Commit to ten pages of meaningful reading each day
   Ten pages a day compiles to roughly 18 books per year — most people read none.
   The Slight Edge: Jeff Olson’s Philosophy of Consistent Small Actions
2. Reading
   Read a few pages of something that develops you each morning.
   The Miracle Morning, Made Practical
3. Use a dedicated e-reader instead of a phone for reading
   A Kindle or similar e-reader does one thing: it shows you text, without notifications, apps, or a browser one swipe away.
   Single-Purpose Devices
4. Generate a stop-doing list, not just a to-do list for next year
   What you stop doing next year is as important as what you start.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
5. Making lectio divina a brief, daily practice
   Practice a short lectio daily rather than a long lectio occasionally.
   Lectio Divina: Sacred Reading
6. Read one section at a time with full attention
   Read one section completely before moving on — no skipping ahead to "get through it."
   The SQ3R Method for Active Reading
7. Replace phone scrolling with a physical book at bedtime
   A physical book provides relaxation without blue light, notifications, or the variable-reward loop.
   The Phone-Free Bedroom
8. Calculate your real current spending — not your estimate
   Pull three months of actual bank and card data before calculating your FI number — estimates are reliably too low.
   The Financial Independence Number, Made Practical
9. Generate questions before reading to drive deep processing
   Set specific questions you want answered before engaging with any material — questions activate deeper processing than passive reading.
   Levels of Processing: Why Depth of Encoding Determines What You Remember
10. Review the whole chapter after you finish
    Do a final pass over all your notes and heading-questions before you close the book.
    The SQ3R Method for Active Reading

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