Reading Habits : but not for Books!

Today’s post is on some of the non-books reading that I get done.

Newsletters, magazines, blog posts (we have an awesome blogging community that can be wonderfully accessed right in the WordPress Reader pane itself) and articles on LinkedIn on Twitter- all these make up for at least 45 minutes of reading.

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Yes, 45 minutes -three whole quarters of an hour! Enough to finish a 25 minute video of the course am enrolled in with note taking, sufficient to grab a quick coffee with a friend or colleague, ample time to cook an easy meal (easy being relative here), enough to play a game with the kiddo or watch half the movie ‘Always Be My Maybe’.

[image error]Any time is great for LEGO Time!

But of course, I do this in installments of 5mins. So, it’s more of a time maximizing strategy than anything else. I get a few extremely short passages of time where all I can do is wait, like waiting to get off the train at my station, In the shared cab to office, awaiting the said shared cab, quick lunches (I do try to club professional socializing most days), and so on. Since, i can’t do deep work, these slots are perfect for catching up with great articles. I prune my emails and social media, so am pretty much assured of extremely useful and personalized articles.

And occasionally you get rewarded for your reading by articles such as this one from @TheMuse!

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So, how about you? What do you spend time reading up that are not the conventional books (or even audio books) but are still worthy of absorbing and instrumental to life/ career? Share your thoughts in the comments below.