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Motivation to Read (Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly)
Today’s Prompts: How do you motivate yourself to sit down and concentrate on reading? Do you have a set reading time/schedule that works best for you to focus? Do you have tips/tricks that you would recommend others try?
Happy Friday! It is good to be back. I am still in a kind of reading slump, but having been away for a few days does help a lot, so today’s topic feels right up my alley. I hope you all are doing great and are ready for another LTB discussion 🙂
How do you motivate yourself to sit down and concentrate on reading?
Honestly, I really just push through. If my deadlines don’t motivate me, I don’t really know what else could lol. If you, like me, read a lot of ARCs and participate in blog tours, you know exactly what I mean!!
Additionally, what motivates me is that I want to post reviews on my blog, so I have to sit down and read in order to have material to share and talk about.
Do you have a set reading time/schedule that works best for you to focus?
Not really, no. With a baby, you just read whenever you find the time to squeeze that reading in. For me personally, now is when she is asleep or when she plays on her own, and I just keep an eye on her. Also, I listen to audiobooks and she enjoys that too, so when I do housework and she is playing or sleeping in her cot, I listen to books. We also read a lot of children’s books that I bought her, and she loves looking at the illustrations and listening to me read. I also count this towards my reading lol!
Before I had my baby, I used to read every evening before going to bed. Most reading was on the days I was off after I’d done my housework chores, so I would just lie down and read for as much as my time and schedule would allow me to. You just have to find that life-work-reading balance that works for you and your family/social life, whichever applies to you.
Do you have tips/tricks that you would recommend others try?
The only things I can say are to read whenever you feel like it and if you are not enjoying what you are reading, pause it, try or DNF it. If you struggle with keeping your focus, just give yourself some rest and try again. Sometimes our brains can get overloaded with information, and they need a hard reset. At the end of the day, we are humans, and reading is our escapism, at least for the majority of us book bloggers/lovers out there. And yes, we are not getting paid to do what we love, but still we need to prioritise our lives and families and jobs. 99% of the people in this community do this because they love it, and it should not feel like a chore.
So, to summarise, I’d say that my tips are rest, reset and pause or DNF then try again!
Let me know your take on this!
Lin's Perspective 
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