How To Use Your iPhone Camera For Taking Notes While Reading

Girl Reading A Book Efficiently

I’m always looking for easy ways to improve my overall reading efficiency. For me taking notes is part of the reading process. It’s also one of the most time-consuming parts of the reading process. While it’s easy to take notes when reading PDFs and online material by simply copying and pasting text into Evernote or a Word document, it doesn’t help much when it comes to reading offline material like a paperback book. That being said, the other day I sat down to read “The Magic Of Thinking Big” by David Schwartz. Normally when I read a paperback book and [...]

    10 Tips On How to Focus On Boring Reading Materials

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    Reading should always be an enjoyable experience! It certainly should be, considering most of us do it every day. Students and professionals can end up dedicating 3 to 5 hours each day to the task of reading. In a perfect world, all the material that we read would be compelling and interesting. However in reality, sometimes the material we read is not that interesting but we still do need to read it. Wether it is for school or for our jobs, there are times when we need to spend hours reading boring material that interests us very little or even [...]

      Increase Your Reading Speed By Reducing Your Fixation Points

      Increase Your Reading Speed By Reducing Your Fixation Points

      Your eyes have the ability to fixate on still or moving objects by the power of focus. This action allows us to gather information to help us to comprehend our environment. It is a very beneficial function. When most of us read, we use our eyes to fixate on every word to help us comprehend the information. Since refocusing our eyes to fixate on one word at a time requires work and time, it tends to slow us down in the long run. Today I am going to share with you a quick way to increase your reading speed by [...]

        Everything you ever wanted to know about Mind Mapping

        Everything you ever wanted to know about Mind Mapping

        I had first learned about Mind Mapping when I took a time management course called Priority Manager back in 2005. That course covered Mind Mapping as a tool for time management and personal productivity. At that time I did not really feel that there was much use for it, and I used it very sparingly. Fast-forward six years later, Mind Mapping is not only something I use every day, but a way of life. After slowly implementing Mind Mapping and it’s principles over the years, it has now found itself a home in everything that I do. Thanks to Mind [...]

          How Using A Mnemonic Device Can Help You With Information Retention

          How to memorize information faster when your read

          I get asked a question a lot by students who take the Speed Reading workshops that I teach. “What is the the best way to memorize information” Before we dive into the best way to memorize information, we should get a general understanding of how our brain performs this task. I will gear this article towards the memorization of information collected trough reading. However, it can easily be applied to any other forms of information sources. How We Memorize Information The brain is a complex organ and the centre of the nervous system. It’s primary purpose is to control the [...]

            My Favourite Speed Reading Techniques Broken Down

            Speed Reading Techniques

            Today I would like to share with you my three favourite Speed reading techniques. One for speed, the second for comprehension and the third for retention. When we set out to read faster, we also want to make sure that we are comprehending the information better and retain it longer. There isn’t any benefit to reading faster unless we are also comprehending and retaining the information better. Get better at all three and you will have a better overall reading experience while reading a lot faster. Speed Technique – Make your eyes move faster Our eyes have the habit of [...]

              How To Read A Blog Post 3 Times Faster

              RSVP software for Speed Reading

              Having recently being introduced into the world of blogging with my new Sped Reading blog, there is one thing I have to do everyday that keeps me informed and meeting a steady stream of new bloggers to form relationships and partnerships. It is the simple task of reading blog posts by different bloggers on different blogs. This allows me to contribute to the conversation of each blog and is one of the main purposes of blogging. The challenge however comes with dividing time with my businesses and this new found hobby. The more blogs I go out and read each [...]

                5 Side Effects Of Practicing “Focus” While You Read

                5 Side Effects Of Practicing “Focus” While You Read

                In my last post, I talked about the top five ways you can increase your focus while you read. This post is a follow up to that post which talks about five benefits you will receive in other areas of your life by developing your ability to focus better while you read. I highly recommend you read that post first so you can get the greatest overall benefit. You can check it out here… 5 Tips To Maintaining A Strong Focus While Reading In life, there are things you can do to improve that will have a related effect on [...]

                  5 Tips To Maintaining A Strong Focus While Reading

                  5 Tips To Maintaining A Strong Focus While Reading

                  In today’s world of Blackberries, instant messengers and other similar types of distractions, it can be very hard to maintain a strong focus while reading. Today I would like to share with you, 5 tips that I find work best for improving your focus while reading. Turn off the instant messengers, cell phone and email notifiers. This is a big one for most of us because we have come to relay so heavily on these services. They are however some of the biggest distractions that exist today. If you are like me, then you probably feel a little mental nudge [...]

                    7 Reasons Why Speed Reading Is Good For Your Brain

                    7 Reasons Why Speed Reading Is Good For Your Brain

                    Speed Reading to me is not just about reading faster. I want to be able to comprehend the information better and retain it longer. It’s a total package. I belive that if we develop the ability to take in information and integrate it faster, we will start to reap the rewards of improved life quality. I mainly got involved with Speed Reading because of my former career in the IT sector. With technology changing everyday, I needed to stay current with all the latest news and trends. Then came the reading of many technical manuals. Speed Reading allowed me to [...]

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