It is often better to make a small version of a habit that you can follow rather than the full version that you won’t follow. Don’t commit to reading a chapter a night, commit to picking up the book and reading one page. More often than not, you’ll wind up reading a lot more. You will pick up the book intending to do only your two minutes, then realize you’re 20 minutes in and enjoying yourself.

Ultimately you’ll get a lot more reading done by committing to a page a night than you would if you told yourself to do a chapter a night.

It’s easy to do anything for 2 minutes. Even if you’re tired. Or stressed.

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