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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
Today's tip is to start a reading project.
If you read just a little bit of something every single day, you can make it through something big in a year.
All you have to do is just keep going.
Long time before breakfast listeners know that in recent years I have pursued a few long -term reading projects to help me make it through some classic works of literature.
Many of us don't read the great books after we leave school, but great books are considered great books for a reason.
They are often really great.
So, in 2021, I read through War and Peace at a pace of one chapter per day.
War and Peace's 361 chapters are all very short.
By reading a ten -minute chapter each day, I could savor the book.
I felt very little resistance to reading, and I didn't feel pressure to read fast to make it through.
There were a few slow moments.
But in general, I loved this tale of Pierre, Natasha, and Prince Andre, set against the backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of a Russia that was slowly lurching toward modernity.
Having enjoyed that reading experience, in 2022, I read through all the works of Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare was an incredibly prolific playwright and poet.
Even so, his lifetime sum of plays and poems all fit in a 1 ,024 -page anthology.
Doing the math, I figured that was about three pages a day, spread over 365 days.
So, at that pace, I read through Twelfth Night, and Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet, and Midsummer Night's Dream, and all the other famous plays, and the not -so -famous ones too.
Reading all the works of Shakespeare only took me about 15 minutes a day.
And honestly, that is a fascinating number to think about.
All that kept me from reading all of Shakespeare's work in the past was 15 minutes a day.
It turned out to be a very doable project.
And now I have done it.
And I'm really glad I did.
This year, I plan to read through all the works of Jane Austen.
The six well -known novels, to be sure, but also her Juvenalia, and the half -completed works from the end of her life.
By reading her work in its entirety, at a very slow, doable pace, I hope to get to know this author, whose works have stood the test of time.
If any of this sounds appealing to you, then now is a great time to start your own reading project.
Think about what might be worth reading, at a slow pace, over a long period of time.
My criteria is that it be doable in a few minutes a day, spread over a year, and be worth doing.
That is, the person's work needs to be the sort of thing that classes are taught about.
Worth doing is subjective, to be sure.
But I think the few minutes a day is a wise move.
If you bite off too ambitious a project, say, reading War and Peace in two weeks, you will probably fall behind.
You will have a busy day.
Or you'll get stopped by a slow part of the story.
Let's just say that the whole Freemason plot part sidelines a lot of folks.
And you won't pick it back up.
A few minutes a day, on the other hand, won't inspire much resistance.
Even if it is a boring part of the story, or an annoying part, it is only a few minutes.
Even if it is a busy day, it is only a few minutes.
You can do it. And since you can do it, you stand a better chance of actually doing it.
So consider whether there is a book or an author you have always wanted to read.
Could you make a reading project out of it?
What would happen if you spread the reading out over a year?
How much would you need to read each day?
Does that sound feasible?
When would you generally make the time?
How would you make it work on a day with travel or lots of other things going on?
If you can answer these questions, you will be well on your way to finishing something big.
A year will pass one way or another.
You can get to the other side of the year having read all the works of Shakespeare, or the Bible, or War and Peace, or Jane Austen, or anything else.
Or you can get to the other side of the year not having done any of those things.
But all that differentiates one outcome from the other might be a few minutes a day.
Small things done repeatedly really do add up.
If you decide to start a long -term reading project, I would love to hear about it.
You can reach me at lauravandercam .com.
In the meantime, this is Laura, thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
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Thanks so much. I look forward to staying in touch.
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