The Reading's Not Hard...

I used to find it hard to read personal development books - I found them difficult and complex, and I rarely made it through the first few pages. I used to joke that I had the world’s biggest library of half-read books.

Now I love reading them. I love understanding and reflecting on their ideas, and taking those ideas and combining them with what I already know to create my own personal insights.

And the thing that got me from where I was to where I am was simply habit - a habit of reading for 30 minutes, with a coffee, just after I had meditated, and before I began the rest of my day.

It turns out that it wasn’t the reading that was hard, it was just the way I was trying to read…