| I recently was made aware of two comparative | | | | zero to 30 minutes a day of good reading and saw |
| statistics that I thought you might find extremely | | | | their income double, and we've seen it too. If you do |
| valuable. I learned that the average American reads | | | | not currently make positive reading a regular part of |
| less than 2 books per year- one and a half to be | | | | your Life- DO SO IMMEDIATELY!!!! Along with |
| exact, with almost two thirds of those going unfinished. | | | | changing who you spend your time with, it is absolutely |
| On the whole, Americans have lost the habit of | | | | the most powerful way to change your Life for the |
| reading good books. | | | | better. |
| There is a notable exception, however. CEO's of | | | | Don't get me wrong- I realize that you need to work, |
| Fortune 500 companies read, on average, roughly | | | | spend time with your family and engage in all the great |
| FOUR BOOKS PER WEEK! That equates to about | | | | activities that you engage in, and you should. You don't |
| 200 times the average for the rest of America, and I | | | | need to become a full time student or some kind of |
| can guarantee that the vast majority of those books | | | | hermit bookworm crazy person. All you need is 15 |
| are good, meaty stuff that causes them to think about | | | | minutes a day, preferably right in the beginning or right |
| their business and/or their Life in a very healthy way. | | | | at the end of that day. And don't give me any crap |
| Now I am not saying that you yourself need to start | | | | about not having 15 minutes a day- if I followed you |
| reading 4 books a week, but I will tell you this- I have | | | | around for one day, I'd bet $1000 that I could find a |
| personally seen that there is a direct and positive | | | | whole hour that could be better spent reading and you |
| correlation between the amount of good reading an | | | | wouldn't even miss it. Watching TV, surfing the internet, |
| individual does and their influence and income. | | | | eating lunch, just zoning out, the list goes on and on- I |
| Unquestionably, the most life-changing habit you can | | | | dare you to take just 15 minutes out of those kinds of |
| develop is to systematically read good books. Charlie | | | | activities each day and invest it in a good book. I |
| "Tremendous" Jones coined the phrase that "Leaders | | | | promise that over a very short period of time, you'll find |
| are always Readers". Our friend Brian Tracy has seen | | | | it's the best 15 minutes of your entire day. |
| it happen many times where an individual went from | | | | Make it a terrific day! |