Do you ever feel like there is just not enough time in the day? Many days you might leave your office wondering why you didn't get much more accomplished. Between dealing with different people and receiving phone calls, and trying to juggle all of the different little tasks you need to, the day can be gone before you know it. A huge challenge for many people is dealing with all of the information that they get get thrown at them through the mail, internet, fax, etc. It's quite a lot of reading!
How many hours a week do you think you actually spend reading - between emails, faxes, newspaper, reports, etc? I sure if you did an inventory of the time you spent on this every week, you would be surprised at the amount of your time that is gobbled up by reading. Now what if you could cut that in half? For some people that would free up a tremendous amount of their days, and allow them to accomplish a tremendous amount more. What many people don't realize is that it is possible to quicky and easily start the habit of reading faster - much faster.
Simply by being aware of the need and the ability that one has to ready faster, this typically helps in and of itself. Many people after a short tutorial can find that their reading speed can be doubled. And really the sky is the limit with the right instruction. There are highly successful people that have really taken this to an art form. Marshall Thurber, a well reknown expert in the field of wealth empowerment, is said to read 3 books before lunch every day. Even if you don't have that kind of reading ambition, it's pretty clear that even if you doubled your reading speed you could save yourself tons of time.
A simple tip you can start using to read faster is to be simply conscious of your reading speed and your need to improve it. For a free test of your reading speed and some free tips on reading faster, check out:
http://www.VelocityReadingSecrets.com
Craig Garcia is recognized as one of the Nation's leading experts on Mortgage and Equity Management. He is a Licensed Mortgage Lender who has been helping consumers with financing solutions for over the past ten years. More lending info can be found at http://www.GreenBrowardCounty.com
Always looking to for ways to improve his efficiency, he established Ballast Publications, which publishes subject matter in a variety of interesting subjects. The most recent publication shows readers how they can quickly and easily read faster. More information can be found at http://VelocityReadingSecrets.com
Article Source: http://www.articlerich.com
Thursday, 14 August 2008
How You Can Find An Extra 2-6 Hours Of Working Time Per Week by Craig A. Garcia
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Speed Reading Sweeping College Campuses by Elija Warren
Speed Reading Sweeping College Campuses
Colleges are seeking new ways to help students stay afloat in today's sea of information.
The easy and cheap availability of printers and photocopiers has resulted in more information being distributed to students on top of their text book reading requirements. Students also spend more time reading using handheld devices, wireless laptops, and researching or passing messages with friends from their own computer. Professors commonly make assignments using the web which means still more supplemental information to be read. Students can easily spend 50% or more of their waking hours reading. They have more to read today than ever before and less time.
How can students ever hope to deal with the growing flood of information? This pinch between time and the volume of information dumped on the heads of students has resulted in revived interest in Speed Reading on college campuses.
Most people read around 200 to 300 words per minute, which is close to the rate we speak. Speed Reading teaches methods that allow a person to read at 600 to 2500 words per minute.
According to Michael Ford, the developer of the Speed Reader-X speed reading system,"In the past six months we have seen a noticeable increase in the number of schools requesting information on setting up speed reading classes. Most of the requests come from Nevada, California, and for some reason Speed Reading is very popular in Florida and Utah."
The speed reading method was discovered in the 1950's by Evelyn Wood when she turned in an 80 page college paper and her professor flipped through it, reading it cover to cover in seconds. He was a natural speed reader who developed the skills on his own without realizing he read differently from anyone else. Evelyn Wood went on to study this phenomena and eventually founded a speed reading institute in Australia. Since then, speed reading has become popular in many countries. However, the technique was almost unknown in the USA until recently when software training systems were developed which made learning the technique much easier.
Critics have questioned the usefulness of speed reading due to lower comprehension rates experienced by some people. According to Mr. Ford, "Speed must be learned before comprehension can be developed. It is exactly the same when a child first learns to read. The child must learn the mechanics of reading and then they develop comprehension with practice. Once a person learns the speed reading techniques, comprehension will follow."
The avalanche of printed and digital reading material that is overwhelming college students will only grow as demands on students increase and their free time decreases. Speed Reading could help future students manage this information overload but, Mr. Ford warns, "Learning speed reading is like learning a foreign language. Anyone can do it but, it is much easier when you are younger and the more you use the techniques, the easier speed reading becomes. I suggest starting before college. Many people start in college but, you can gain the most benefits if you are proficient before beginning college rather than trying to learn speed reading while facing a full class load too. Start early, that is my advice."
If you would like more information, Mr. Ford has created a free report that explains how speed reading works and it is available at http://www.free-speedreading-report.com
http://www.free-speedreading-report.com
Article Source: http://www.articlerich.com
Sunday, 20 January 2008
How Does Speed Reading Benefit The Entrepreneur?
by Melvin Ng
As either an old-hand in the world of business, or new to the life of being an entrepreneur, one common factor that you’ll share, if you want to run a successful business that is, is an overwhelming amount of paperwork to read through. Now, you may decide that your entrepreneurial skills are more in management and delegation, and therefore offload this to your subordinates, or you may decide that being a "hand’s on" entrepreneur means ploughing your way through all of this paperwork.
Whatever the case may be, being a successful entrepreneur means knowing about all the fluctuations in the market before the rest of the pack do, and having the ability to run your business smoothly. To be able to do this, you will need to undertake research and collect relevant, pertinent, information. In short, as an entrepreneur, you have a lot of reading ahead of you.
Here, some entrepreneurs, even successful ones, find that fulfilling their need to complete all their necessary reading means that they spend more than 12 hours a day reading! But, don’t let the desperation, agitation, frustration and stress of reading all this necessary material get you down - there is a way to cut this reading time in half: thereby giving you more time to spend being the successful entrepreneur you always want to be!
So, how do you manage to improve the time you spend reading? Simple really, ask yourself the following questions:
- do you read pages from left to right, or do you concentrate on the centre of the line and scan the page down?
Empirical evidence shows that concentrating on the centre of the line and scanning the page down will increase your reading speed.
- do you read word-for-word, or do your sweep read?
Empirical evidence shows that word-for-word reading is both very cumbersome and reduces the reader’s ability to comprehend the material being read.
- do you sound out words and syllables as you read them?
If you sound out words and syllables as you read them then you are ’sub-vocalizing’. Although taught to many of us at an early age, sub-vocalization is actually one of the biggest hindrances on our ability to read faster. What’s more, although there are a number of proven downsides with sub-vocalization, there are no proven benefits. In short, you’re wasting valuable time!
- do you re-read material if you haven’t fully understood it the first time?
Although psychologically you may think it is more beneficial to re-read a passage you have not fully comprehended the first time you read it, in fact evidence indicates this is not the case. In any event, having the ability to speed read negates the need to re-read passages as with the ability to speed read comes higher comprehension rates.
So, as you can see, if you have answered yes to any one or more of these questions there is a very good chance you’re spending longer reading than is necessary. What’s more, if you were to take a speeding course you could easily find that you increase your reading speed by up to half - meaning that you’ll free up more time to do other essential tasks central to being and entrepreneur, like wining and dining, or spending more time with your family.
Other benefits you’ll be able to unlock by being able to speed read as an entrepreneur includes:
- having more time on your hands to research good business opportunities;
- having more time on your hands to read materials relevant to the business you already have;
- have more time on your hands to greet-and-meet your existing clients, like having the free time to play a round of golf;
- have more time n your hands to spend with your family;
- be in a better position to meet deadlines, as you won’t be bogged down with reading;
- be in a better position to take on more work and maximise your income potential;
- have less stress and frustration, as you’ll have been able to complete all your reading tasks within their given time;
- increase your comprehension and memory of the material you’ve read: it’s a proven fact that speed reading material is more likely to increase your comprehension of what you have just read than if you word-for-word, or re-read, material.
As you can seen then, the benefit of being able to speed read as an entrepreneur is that you are in a better position to manage your business more successfully and with less stress attached to the tasks you need to complete!
Melvin Ng teaches speed reading through his 16-Minute Speed Reading Audio Program
which Guarantees to Double your reading speed in just 16 minutes! http://www.best-speed-reading-course.com
Article Source: ArticleRich.com
How You Can Find An Extra 2-6 Hours Of Working Time Per Week
by Craig A. Garcia
Do you ever feel like there is just not enough time in the day? Many days you might leave your office wondering why you didn't get much more accomplished. Between dealing with different people and receiving phone calls, and trying to juggle all of the different little tasks you need to, the day can be gone before you know it. A huge challenge for many people is dealing with all of the information that they get get thrown at them through the mail, internet, fax, etc. It's quite a lot of reading!
How many hours a week do you think you actually spend reading - between emails, faxes, newspaper, reports, etc? I sure if you did an inventory of the time you spent on this every week, you would be surprised at the amount of your time that is gobbled up by reading. Now what if you could cut that in half? For some people that would free up a tremendous amount of their days, and allow them to accomplish a tremendous amount more. What many people don't realize is that it is possible to quicky and easily start the habit of reading faster - much faster.
Simply by being aware of the need and the ability that one has to ready faster, this typically helps in and of itself. Many people after a short tutorial can find that their reading speed can be doubled. And really the sky is the limit with the right instruction. There are highly successful people that have really taken this to an art form. Marshall Thurber, a well reknown expert in the field of wealth empowerment, is said to read 3 books before lunch every day. Even if you don't have that kind of reading ambition, it's pretty clear that even if you doubled your reading speed you could save yourself tons of time.
A simple tip you can start using to read faster is to be simply conscious of your reading speed and your need to improve it. For a free test of your reading speed and some free tips on reading faster, check out:
http://www.VelocityReadingSecrets.com
Craig Garcia is recognized as one of the Nation's leading experts on Mortgage and Equity Management. He is a Licensed Mortgage Lender who has been helping consumers with financing solutions for over the past ten years. More lending info can be found at http://www.GreenBrowardCounty.com
Always looking to for ways to improve his efficiency, he established Ballast Publications, which publishes subject matter in a variety of interesting subjects. The most recent publication shows readers how they can quickly and easily read faster. More information can be found at http://VelocityReadingSecrets.com
Article Source: ArticleRich.com