Transform Your Mind: Transform Your Life #4

That last visual trigger for your mind is:  What you Read.

According to the Washington Post 25% of people didn't even read a book last year.  According to the Associated Press the average person read four books last year.

Of those that read, many are fiction or as I would categorize "Entertainment."

While reading is important, reading beneficial information will ignite the mind and change your life.  How much entertaining books have you read compared to educational?  How many entertaining magazines have you read compared to educational?

Here is a reading plan that changed my life and EVERY life of those I know who tried this plan.

1.  Find the one topic that would help you the most at work or your desired career.  Ask your boss for help if you need.
2.  Read that topic for 30-45 minutes each day, six day s a week for 3 months.  Most people absorb the most in the morning before going to work.  Find the best time every day that works for you.
3.  Write or journal what you learn along the way.
4.  Find ways to immediately apply what you are learning.  Share what you are learning with others.
5.  Change subjects and focus on the next most beneficial subject for the next three months and repeat the cycle.
6.  Due this until it becomes habit.
7.  Learn Dynamic Speed Reading.  Pick up the Evelyn Wood Reading Program.  This program helped me go from reading a book a month to a book every couple days.

Even if you took the final quarter off due to all the holidays you will be surprised how much you know and have applied to your life in the first year.  If you could only read one book every 2 weeks for three of the four quarters a year, you would have read almost 20 books on your subject and had applied their principles to your life.  After five years that turns to 100 books.  When the average person reads 4 books a year and most are entertainment, you dramatically learn more and place yourself far ahead of your competition.

If you read what the successful read, you will understand what the successful understand.  The unsuccessful think that there are secrets to success-  there are.  But the secrets are available to those who search for it.

Next entry we will look at the second type of trigger that directs the mind.