My 2013 Challenge

Read a book a day in 2013??

Really???

Yes!  I am going to read a book per day in 2013!  That means I am going to read over 365 books in 2013!

I am going to cheat only a bit - how?  I am going to start now in December of 2012!  I am going to get a head start!  That way I can survive the first month even though I am a slow reader.  I will learn to speed read though and will make it through the rest of the year!


What am I going to read? 

Well, 365 books is a lot of books so I will read anything and everything to a certain degree.

I am going to really Master Read the books on my Kangen™ Hagen Team Book List!  These are about 25-50 books that are classics!
I am going to read a lot of people skills, relationships, compassion, and spirituality.
I am going to read Classic Literature and books to expand my vocabulary and world!
I am going to read Novels.
I will pour through the great biographies of leaders before me.
I already have 1000 books in my home library and on my kindle that I have not yet truly read or mastered!  It will be easy to do this!


The Specifics?

Here is the basic plan:

I am going to not just read, I am going to listen to audios, attend seminars, interview positive role models, and the core of my learn lifestyle will be to read!  I may journal on here about other things, but learning and reading will be the central topic.

The Rules are:

• If its a Novel or Fiction book, I just need to have read and finished it.
• If its a self help book I need to have showed that I have really received out of it.  I need to underline key statements, add comments on the book or on kindle, keep book journals to capture thoughts, and I need to create a blog summary of the book of what I learned from it.  The goal is not to just read the book... the good is to be changed by each book.  I want to read, apply, meditate, and really master each key book!  I will also probably post audio mp3 book summaries over time.
• For the top 20 books I want to absolutely MASTER them!  I will read each of the top 20 books about 3-4 times each this year!
• By the end of this year, someone could look at my kindle and book library (open up books, see my highlights & notes) and read my blog website and know that I have mastered these books.
• I will read daily.  Some days I may read two books a day...   but my absolute minimum is to read at least one page everyday!  But my overall goal will be to read 1/2 a book a day in december, and then a book a day after that!

Why I am inspired to do this crazy task?

Here are a few of the reasons why I really want to do this!

• I have always loved books and believed in the power of books to expand a person's thinking, and to create growth.  It's just that I feel I have never yet until now fully taken advantage of the amazing books I have and the ability I have to read them.  
• I just organized my library - I have amazing books but I can't say I have read them all!
• I want to energize and feed my mind.
• I want to grow physically, mentally, spiritually, in relationships, in skills, in business, and in impact!  Books can help me get there!
• I just know that after even a week or month.. nevertheless a year... my entire thinking will be transformed and so will my emotional patterns and my life!
• I get distracted easy and sometimes these distractions are not healthy or empowering.  I want an activity to fill in my free time or even be a healthy distraction!  I want to read and grow for pleasure... not just work!
• I believe my business will absolutely explode in the process!  I don't think my profession as a health/fitness entrepreneur requires me to work doing presentations, talking, etc... more than 15 hours per week.  I think the key is to be full of passion, belief, energy, ideas, resources, knowledge, skills, character, compassion, people skill, positive attitude and emotion, and to act out of my potential!   
• I want to set the example for my friends and team!  We have a calling, opportunity, and assignment to become the Leaders necessary to lead a movement in true health... a movement in compassion through Kangen Water™.  It can be intimidating to think about needing to become a great leader until I remember that books are like the clay used to form amazing masterful leaders!
• I have read books like Read and Grow Rich, and Read for Your Life!  They have inspired me in the past to read voraciously, but now I want it even more!
• My key motivation is just to create new thoughts, change, and variety in my life!  I don't want to think the thoughts of yesterday, I want new and better thoughts!

How am I going to pull this off?  How will I find or make time?

I think I just want a challenge that relates to self-improvement!  If I were to count the hours from 2010, 2011, and 2012 - I really already have the time.  I have spend an average of 3-5 hours per day surfing the net, on sports websites, reading something, watching videos, and especially being on Facebook!
I am just going to take that time and direct it to reading!

Plus, I believe I will get so much new mental emotional energy that I will require less sleep!

So basically I am going to take facebook time, internet surfing time, and excess sleep time.... and just switch it over!  It will be EASY once the habits are changed around!

Because of the Blessing of my Enagic Kangen Water™ Business mhagen.yourbodyiswater.info I don't have a job and I have way more free time than most people with a passive income stream from a wonderful health team!

My plan is to read constantly!  I am going to read every free moment I have.  I am going to read while eating, exercising, waiting, before bed, while shaving, etc....

I will read about 15 books in december which will get my mental muscles strong, get my reading speed up, and give me a head start!

My standard will be to stay ahead!  That means that if I am on day 90 of the year, I will have read over 90 books already!  I will not fall behind!