What?

Speed-reading is a skill they should have taught you in school, but they didn't.

So What?

Are you looking for a ridiculously easy way to find the time to get more done? Here's a way you can easily gain over three weeks of productive time each year by simply using one finger.

When you were a child, you probably ran one finger along the lines of the book as you read a story. At some point in time, a grown-up told you this was not a good idea and encouraged you to learn to read without using your finger…like "big people” do. As it turns out, the "big people” were wrong. Using your finger as a guide and keeping your eyes slightly ahead of your finger as you read, can easily double your reading speed. Assuming you have at least an hour's worth of reading material to tackle every working day, you will save 30 minutes a day by using this finger-reading method. A typical work year for most people is 260 days. Therefore, you save 130 hours a year by reading twice as fast. That's over three weeks a year! Using this method paces your reading better and keeps you from backtracking so much. Try it right now…it works!

Most people think reading faster reduces their ability to concentrate and retain the information they are reading. As it turns out, this is also wrong. You actually improve your ability to comprehend and retain information when you read faster. This is just one example of how speed-reading can help you get more done with less effort.

Now What?

You can learn to speed-read by attending a course, taking a self-study course or reading a book on speed-reading. Here are two of my personal favorites:

10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks-Beale

Quantum Reading by Bobbi DePorter with Mike Hernacki

If you combine the two books mentioned above,

they contain about 150 pages, including many blank pages and pictures. Even a slow reader could probably read them in two to four hours. In addition to the finger-reading technique, there are enough ideas in these books to help you easily double or quadruple your reading speed in a very short time.

Would you be willing to invest two to four hours in something tomorrow that could help you gain six or more weeks of productive time each year? It's a better idea than complaining you don't have the time to get it all done. Try it!

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