Build a Consistent Reading Habit by Investing 10 Minutes Every Day
Tags: socialmedia, productivity, android, ios
Published: 2024-03-18 13:43:58

Imagine you have the top personalities as your mentors: **Bill Gates** for mentoring and helping you in business; **Warren Buffet** for teaching you and giving ideas for investing; and **Dalai Lama** for helping you live a peaceful and happy life. 
You will become the richest and happiest person in the world. But is it possible? Yes, through reading.

**Reading** is one of the most difficult skills to maintain consistency. Maybe you also stopped reading a book in half due to various distractions. 
According to the following statistics, the average number of readers is decreasing in the US year by year.
![reading](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rkTeYqxCa.jpg) 
So what are the reasons behind people stepping back from reading?

## Why do we Stop Reading?

The most important reason is the introduction of **social media**. Social media eats up the time people dedicate to reading books. 
Users are used to skimming through streams of short, attention-spanning content. The shorter attention span leads to the inability to do longer tasks, like reading a lengthy book.

Some other reasons are:
* procrastination
* a lack of self-discipline
* availability of space and time

Everybody has a desire to improve their capabilities and skills by reading and applying a lot of books.

**Procrastination** is a major obstacle to building any skill. Aligning our mindsets to defeat procrastination is one of the most painful tasks. 
Procrastination for reading can also happen due to various other distractions, such as social media, doom scrolling, etc.
One of the other main reasons people will say to stop reading is the availability of time and space. 

Between work, family, and different chores, most people find time to allocate for reading. Also, reading a lengthy book will take months to complete.
But it doesn't mean building a reading habit is a non-solvable problem. 
If we follow a systematic method and have a proper mindset, anybody can achieve any skill, including consistent reading. 
If you follow the solution that I'm going to suggest here for **10 minutes every day**, you can read at least 10 books in 60 hours.

## Reading 2x Books this Year
To address the reading problem and create a consistent reading habit in our internal team, we built a tool called **[FeedZap](https://hexmos.com/feedzap)**. 
[FeedZap](https://hexmos.com/feedzap) is a free software tool that helps to build a reading habit with less effort and time. 
[FeedZap](https://hexmos.com/feedzap) has so many features that help you maintain consistency in reading and transform your readings into learning. 
Let's see how the different features in FeedZap help you build a consistent reading habit by **investing 10 minutes daily**.


## Replace Distractions into Learning
In the days before social media, people used their free time to read a lot of books. Getting that habit back is very difficult in this era. 

![phone demo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kldy9q8l52himwd7y8ha.gif)

The **stream of content through the feed** is the most addictive feature on any social media. So what if we can replace the addictive social media feed with an informative, healthy feed? That's what FeedZap is doing. 
[FeedZap Chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hfmhadkhbkjnfkldmfholhihelodmapp?utm_source=ext_app_menu) will replace your social media feeds, such as Reddit, LinkedIn, and Twitter, with more informative, healthy feeds from your favorite books. 
![Rectangle 7](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJqzySVRp.png)


Continue reading the full article at https://journal.hexmos.com/socialmedia-distraction-reading/