Make time to read

It has been said that if you read for an hour every day, you will be able to read the equivalent of 50 books a year. Imagine what that would do to your information / knowledge banks? Imagine what would happen if you took just one of the pieces of information from each of those books and used them to make a change to the way your ran your business, or the way you managed the people who work for you. That's just one idea per book, imagine how much change you could make if you used 2 of the suggestions given, that would be over a 100 changes to your life in just one year.

So, next time you are reading, make a practice of writing down the good ideas in a notebook that you can carry with you. Then start to implement those good ideas. We don't call reading "food for thought" for nothing.

With love and light

Elle

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Comments

[Elle]

In an additional comment to today's edition of the Daily Dose. I have personally read several thousand books, and owned more than a thousand. But in addition to "books" I have written many articles for peer reviewed journals, and read many more. I've written several books and technical manuals. Add all the incidental reading I do for my job and you can imagine the number of words I have read will be in the millions. Words have the ability to transport you to places you may never get to see. They have the ability to inspire, to move you to tears. Words are amazing and above all - we can read almost everything the world has ever written, and for not much money. How inspirational is that.

With love
Elle

[my name is aaron]

What about reading webformation? Does reading "insert here" knowledge count as reading if I'm reading lots of different things each day?

[Elle]

Hi aaron, ok - putting my "information managers" hat on here.

You don't read knowledge. What you do is read data. Those meaningless bits and bytes - imagine reading a shopping list or a single line of a poem. Until those seemingly meaningless words make sense, they remain data. When they do make sense to you then it becomes information. It doesn't matter what it is or where it comes from. It only becomes knowledge when you use the information and apply it to your life.

OK, what do i mean by that. Well - say you were reading a notice that said - warning this is hot. Single words becoming information. Knowledge comes from the fact that you KNOW it's hot, therefore you won't touch it.

So that's the first thing. The other point is - why are you reading? What benefits are you gaining from reading - and webinformation does count as reading of course it does...it just depends what you are getting from it. It's like motivateme and the daily dose of motivational medicine. You can read the stories, the news, the suggestions (information), but until you understand and apply a few of those things to your life - then it will stay as information - it becomes knowledge when you use it. So - why are you reading what you are reading. Of course it could also be argued that you are reading for pleasure, and that's fine too it's important to strike balance no matter what you are doing.

Hope this helps

Elle