It's a minimalist Monday edition of optimal living daily episode, twelve o seven, the case for slow reading by air annuity with Kate, Flanders, dot com and I'm just a moloch. Happy Monday, happy first of April April fool's here and I dont have any pray. For you. I think I did one once on the show in a few years has been running. I said I was gonna end the show, but none of that today anyway, walk about audible, Livy Daily, though L De Podcast, where I read to you from some of the best blows I can find in get permission from today's posed comes from Cape Flanders, dot com, but it's a guest article her sight. Aaron is a writer and editor in New York and aspiring novelist actually and before you to today's boast. The average interest rate on credit card dead is over eighteen percent bp are have you looked at your interest rate lily refinance your high interest credit, our bow, does and save with a credit card consolidation loan from lights frame.

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a solid, waited track. All the books. I've read, organise them into debt, categories and find in bookmark books, I wanted to read, and then I saw a good reads, reading challenge you challenge yourself. To read a certain number of books by the end of the year, and it keeps track of your progress, letting you know, you behind or ahead of schedule in twenty six I more than was necessary to complete the challenge. I was pregnant for most of the year and found myself can. Play books even more readily than usual. I went through the entire Harry Potter Series. A number of members in countless other gems, sometimes I read aloud to the baby, sometimes kids books, sometimes not brows, always reading a finished the chemist, while in early labour as soon as twenty seventeen head and the baby was born. On January eighth, I found my time for reading decreased but, more importantly, I began taking the time to really enjoy books. When I did

slowing down for a long term, books and audio books once the baby here. If I had a moment to myself to read, I wanted to savour. It also found myself picking up what I like to call book in between books, books like what to expect the first year by this author as what to expect when you expecting and healthy sleep habits, happy child are not books that you devour as quickly as you can move on to the next book. There, not typically red, covered a cover, their intent did to follow the life of the child and he read along as the kid gets older he's. Others books turn to again and again to look things up or reread passage initial. I was annoyed that I read a good portion of, but not yet finished. A couple of these book in between books browsing close them out yet on good reads: but then I realized these books aren't items to be cross off a list. The point isn't to read as fast as you can, so you can put the book out of sight and out of mind to move on to the next read their meant to be relish

over time and frankly, their intended to learn from to their nonfiction informative books that are too tell me about how to be a better mom. I want to fly through them just to say, I've read them. Similarly, I've gotten into audio books in recent years, and I found that sometimes I have to go back and live to a passage or chapter again to better understand what I am reading Take me a while to get through these, but that's: ok, I'm not going to turn the speed and listened to them, as As I can so, I can read more and more and more and more if I did that barely go to enjoy or even process the books. So what would be the point? really say. I read the book at that juncture. Reading slower at work, I'm a writer editor at a marketing company. I got the job in early twenty. Sixteen

As I found out, I was pregnant. Yes, it was awkward timing for me at the beginning. I try to pump out articles as quickly as I could. I wanted to demonstrate that they can rely on me to get pieces done fast. We know what happens if he rushed through an article. You have more edit Things get missed. You forget to check the spelling of a name. You miss permanently formation in a press release yourself is he getting the words down you forget who your demographic even is at some point. My editor, there's something to me along the lines of it's ok to slow down I take a little more time. We'd rather get done correctly, then quickly and again is one. I was pregnant, which, for some reason can I go go, go mode as far as reading and writing went so I started to make us of slow down one way or force myself This is when reading articles as research for a peace sometimes actually retie everything, I'm reading as I'm reading it. I just wish

reading an article or I could take the time to type it out said to carefully think out each word. Each sentence need paragraph. This really helped me to better taken the information and not miss something him, warned taking time to read with the kid ultimate. Sometimes I'm ready for him to go to bed Oh! I can get on with my evening. I'm occasionally tempted to raise. Through good night good night construction site, so you get him in his crib I can go and do yoga or watch my so barber. Our read my own book, but I can't do that. He deserves to take the time to enjoy books too. Before I had a kid when I was baby sitter, you're, watching other people's kids. I would hate how we would have to pause several times when reading a book. I'd say something like and then the bunny hopped across the lawn and the kid would interrupt me with Bunny

while Yesticle being his or her hands on the book. I respond with yes bunny. As I was saying, I just wanted to read through the story, but little kids don't read that way. They need to stop and pointing this out and pull tabs on pop books. With my kid he's not yet a year old, so he's not quite talking other than data, but for what I've read in what to expect the first year this time period. You need to be the one to stop during the story. You must be the one point out what's going on in the book before he can do this himself. Look at the little girl eating, blueberries, blueberries are yummy and sweet or that's a cow cows go move. Goodnight moon is particularly great for this, as it has quite a few objects in the book that our excellent for examining mittens kittens a mouse, a brush a ball kids need to read slower. There must be interruptions discussions the pointing out of it

these things time to take a couple of moments to digest what were reading, we can all probably benefit from taking a chapter out of thereby you just listen to the post titled the case for slowly by air Annuity was Kate, Flanders, dot com, awesome, of my own, but first thank you again to light stream. When you have good credit, you deserve great service and a low interest, fixed rate loan from lights frame. That's lending uncomplicated, in get alone from five thousand to a hundred thousand dollars and there are no fees. You get a rate as low as six point one four percent, a pr with ATO pay again fixed and will never go up, refinance your high interest, credit card balances and save the credit card consolidation loan from lights frame and want to see the more by listeners, get an additional interest rate discount. The only way to get this discount is to go to

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