Hi everyone!

Today, I wanted to give you advices to find time to read more. Indeed, people around me often ask me "How do you do to read so much?". I don't have a miracle recipe but I thought that an article on this subject would be useful: I will give you my opinion on this issue and my daily organisation regarding reading.

For me, to find time to read requires organisation. In fact, I create reading moments everyday. So I choose, for example, to get up a little earlier in the morning to read about 15 or 20 minutes. Indeed, I noticed that I was too tired to read effectively in the evening, so I made the choice to go to bed a little earlier, to be able to read in the morning. I have also noticed that my mind is much quicker when I wake up and that reading is therefore much more effective. This allows me to start the day with a little moment for myself.

Moreover, I take advantage of the "empty moments" of the day. For example, I have one hour of public transport in the morning to go to work and one hour in the evening to go home. So, I read during these two hours of transports. If you don't take public transport to go to work or to school, take always a book with you anyway. In fact, we have a lot of moments in our lives when we do nothing but wait (a medical or an administrative appointment for example). Despite of using your phone, take advantage of this wait to read.

This is not necessarly everyone's opinion, but for me, reading is often a matter of choice. There are, of course, exceptions but I don't think that reading a lot is a chance, as I often hear.

Reading asks effort and we are not always ready to focus on a book. Instead of reading, we often choose to turn on the TV, to watch Netflix, to listen to music or to use our smartphone. We easily spend a lot of time on social networks for example. When I wonder what this time on Instagram and Facebook brings to me, I sometimes tell myself that it's better to turn off my phone and to read instead. I believe that everyone should think about it. I consider that if someone reads more than me, he probably makes other choices than me. Sometimes, we don't realize the time we waste doing things that don't give us real satisfaction.You have to become an actor at every moment of your day to prioritize the activites you need.

Finally, it was important to me to say that it's above all necessary to listen to yourself. I believe that life is full of several small pleasures and it's normal to not always give priority to reading. And certain periods are marked by particular event, which make our mind not available for reading. It must be a pleasure and we must also accept that we are not in a good mood for this activity during certain periods of our life.

Reading should not be a race for the number of books read but a pleasure. Everyone has to find a reading rhythm that corresponds to himself or herself.

I hope that you liked my article. Don't hesitate to tell me your thoughts about this subject!