Take Comfort in the Small Things

So many worries. Our future unknown and uncertain. Quarantine and isolation. And yet … these are the days we’ll remember for a generation: those dark times when we persevered and grew stronger as a person, as a family, and as a community. We made sacrifices, experienced heartfelt loss, and yet took comfort in the small things: our family suddenly reassembled from far-flung places, a dog’s warmth by our side, and maybe the music we played for each other to cheer and inspire …

Listen to this performance by Yo-Yo Ma with your eyes closed and really, really hear it. To think such beautiful sound and feeling could come from just one soul, alone on a darkened stage. Ancient music retold centuries later; a musical message that we can and will get through this together.

 

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Read More Books: Read More Than One Book at a Time

The latest in a series of tips to help you read at least 50 books a year without feeling like you’re reading that much at all.

Tip #7: Read more than one book at a time. This tip may be an unpopular one. Many readers are devoted to a single book at a time, and would consider it is almost cheating to allow a second (or third) book into the relationship. I understand this view because I held it myself for many years. Yet, once I began the practice of reading several books at once, my completion rate started to climb.

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Read More Books: Listen to Audiobooks

Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, it can be challenging to find time for books. In this read-more-books series, I’ll share tips and tricks to read at least 50 books a year without feeling like you’re reading that much at all.

Read more books tip #6: listen to audiobooks on your commute, while you exercise, or while doing chores.

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Read More Books: Set a Goal and Have a System of Follow Through

Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, it can be challenging to find time for books. In this read-more-books series, I’ll share the tips and tricks I use to read at least 50 books a year without feeling like I’m reading that much at all.

Tip #5: If you want to read more books in 2020, set a goal for yourself. Write it down. Better yet, create a Reading Challenge for yourself in Goodreads so you’ll always know where you stand during the year. …

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Read More: Make Use of Short Breaks during the Day

Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, it can be challenging to find time for books. In this read-more-books series, I’ll share the tips and tricks I use to read at least 50 books a year without feeling like I’m reading that much at all.

One of the most obvious ways to read more books is to … well, read more. But with busy lives and constant demands on our time, how do you rationalize curling up with a book for long stretches?

Tip #4: read on the go during the unavoidable lulls in your day

There’s a story floating around about someone seeing the novelist Stephen King waiting in line to see a movie. Mr. King, who has written over eighty books and is known for his voracious reading, inched forward in line with his nose between the pages of a paperback book. Once he found his seat, he continued reading in the dim light until the lights went out, and the trailers started. …

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