Whether you’re the CEO of a multinational, or the department intern, you qualify as a business professional.  Needless to say, that title entails the possession of a broad set of skills that includes leadership, communication, practical knowledge, and yes–reading.  Reading may not seem like a significant part of your day-to-day work.   You may have abandoned the notion of reading with the concluding chapter of your college textbooks.  Quite the contrary, in fact.   If you are a serious player in the competitive job market of today, you already know that simple tasks that may not seem to take up much of your time actually eat up more of it than you’d think.  But you already knew that.  You’re a clever professional.  You know that cutting down on time spent doing menial labor–like reading–means more time doing work that relates directly to your job. (more…)

For all of us avid readers out there the outside world poses a great threat in the form of distractions. Whether they are pleasant or annoying, distractions will always get one simple goal accomplished – they will make your job of finishing whatever it is you are reading a daunting task.
Distractions may vary in shape, size and form, but rest assured, they will follow you even to the North Pole if you decide to make it a reading retreat. Some distractions are easy to spot, while others hide under an impenetrable disguise, so that you don’t even recognize them as such. We decided to list the most dangerous of them for you, so that if you ever become victims to these ugly creatures, at least you do so very well informed.

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Although these tips won’t have you reading like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, they will help you get an immediate boost in speed. Speed reading does take practice, but these are the simplest things you can do to start. (more…)

So what is speed reading? I teach speed reading workshops to college students and business professionals and the most common question I get is: “What’s the trick?” Everyone wants to know what’s the secret to speed reading. The truth is, there are no tricks and it takes practice, just like anything else.

My goal in writing this blog is offer useful tips to those interested in learning speed reading without all the ridiculous hype. And since speed reading is a productivity tool, I also plan to sharing various websites that I find to be helpful in boosting my productivity and efficiency.

There are a ton of interesting websites out there (Web2.0 is the new buzz word of the year) and I hope to separate for you the ones that can actually make you more productive in your everyday life.

This blog will be geared mostly toward college students and business professionals, but I welcome any other readers that are interested in learning more about speed reading. Especially those with a passion for reading.

Paul