Stepping into the Future, One Book At a Time

Can reading 200 books a year really change your life?

Susan Brearley says her life has changed since adopting this habit in 2019. Okay, so 2019 wasn’t that long ago (and yet it seems like it was so long ago…) but she’s seen results, some almost immediately.

Susan decided she would read 200 books in one year. What changed?

MINDSET

Mindset is the first change to happen when taking on the challenge of consuming 200 books in a year. This is a conscious decision to change one's habits in order to make the time to read 200 books in 365 days. I don’t care how busy or not busy you are, that’s a lot of time.

Deciding to do this, or adding anything else that is new to a daily, weekly, or monthly routine, is exactly why we all should read more books: develop habits that are a good/better use of our time.

It doesn’t have to be 200 in a year, but why not give it a try? Even if you read one more book than you normally do or just one book, it’s a start in the right direction.

ORGANIZING

Organizing the task is the second mind shift to happen when taking on a challenge that’s going to change the way you spend your time. Now you’re thinking thoughts focused on books, their topics, their length, and their delivery. Ebook, print, or audio? Novels, or novellas? Fiction or non-fiction? Finding a mix or a niche, with a million new books being published every couple of weeks (seriously, what’s that stat now?) there is no shortage of material. And, your thoughts are changing. The things you are thinking about are different.

EXPANDING YOUR LIFE

If you’re going to read 200 books in a year, there should be a reason for it. A goal in mind, a life challenge or necessary change, an idea that’s been brewing in your dreams for decades. A business? A book? An Airbnb in upstate New York hosting live-in-think-tank-style collaborations to creatives with big ideas?

INTERESTED?

If you’ve been thinking it’s time for you to do something big, to really shake things up and change your life — you know, so one day you can be sitting in the lobby of some fabulous tropical hotel having cocktails with your family, your loved ones, or maybe even your business partner(s) re-telling the story of how this all started because you read an article on Medium, joined a Master Mind class, read 200 books in a year, connected with like-minded people who supported your ideas with actionable plans and real help to create a multi-million dollar business changing the world for the better, here’s your chance to make that change.

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Nanci Arvizu writes non-fiction essays on Transgenerational Dysfunction, Surviving Narcissism, and Sexual Trauma, and mind-twisting fiction, dystopian to satire, short stories, novels, and screenplays. She is currently rewiring her brain by reading 200 Books in a Year. All the links you need are here.