Took a 20-minute library webtalk on my lunch break last Tuesday, half expecting to zone out through it. The one thing that actually stuck: match the book to the time slot you already have instead of trying to find time for the book. Obvious when you hear it, but I’d been doing the opposite for months, picking up a 400-page novel and wondering why it sat on the nightstand untouched for 3 weeks.
So I tried it. Swapped to a short story collection I grabbed secondhand a while back and read 10 pages during my actual lunch (not scrolling, just reading) instead of saving it for bedtime when I’m already half asleep. Finished the whole collection in 9 days, which honestly hasn’t happened since before the kids.
The part I didnt expect — my shoulders were less tight by the end of the week too. Not sure if it’s the reading itself or just having one less thing nagging at me that I ‘should’ be doing. Either way I’m keeping the lunch slot for now, same book-length rule applies to the next one I pick up.