Episode 428 – Lets read daily Welcome QFY friendsThank you for listening to my podcastTime flies by so fastWe are already in May – 5 months into the year and I always like to check in with youHow are you doing on your goals and resolutions – if you set any?If you didn’t – how is your year going otherwise?Are you happy with where you are ?Usually we aren’tWe always wish we would be further aheadMaybe we started on something we have been wanting to do, but we haven’t made the progress we would like to seeI have made tons of progress but there are a few small things that just haven’t started onI have taken big steps on big projectsBut I am not happy with the small things that are just as important to me and that I have neglectedI keep talking about them but I haven’t done anything with themThat is why this week I want to do something slightly differentFor our 3 episodes this week – I want to put a plan together on 3 goals that are on my mind every dayI consider them not just important to me but I strongly believe if we all do these 3 things regularly, ideally daily, our lives will improveYes – that is a bold claimThat is why I want to share them with youBecause at some point I did them all regularly and have seen the difference it made on my lifeI was more mindful, more present, overall felt more emotionally stable and relaxed about lifeAnd I want to share them because now I don’t practice them regularly but want to get back to themso what I want to this week is this:I’d like to set the challenge for all of us to start all or at least 1-2 of these goalsAs I cover them – I will share with you why they are so impactful for our lives that they are non-negotiable in my opinionEvery person should at least try to incorporate their version of these 3 activities in their lifeAnd I would not suggest all 3 in one week if a) I didn’t believe they are critical and b) if I believed they are something difficult that takes a lot of timeWe are all busyBut I realized this weekend – the big projects are importantThey get us far – bring huge resultsBut the little ones are just as importantAnd I have neglected them over the last many monthsYou have heard me mention them all because I don’t like that they are not part of my lifeThey areReadingMediation / time for stillnessDaily intentionsThe third one I may have not yet covered a lotBut its an important one and it takes secondsI started doing it last week and its powerfulIntentions ensure the other 2 goals get done and whatever eles you set out to do that dayBut today I want to start with ReadingReadingLet me just say it – I love readingI loved reading since I was able to readI would search the attic in my grandmothers house and find whatever books that seemed interesting and read them at nightThis is how I learned the story of the Wizard of OzIn fact – it wasn’t the Wizard of OzIt had a different title and the authors name was someone RussianBut it was almost the exact same storyIn prep for this episode I became curious about this and searched on Google Germany for the bookI learned that the author - Alexander Wolkov- basically rewrote the original story with a few modifications  and that it was distributed widely in the communist countriesDorothy’s name was Elli in my version and she lived in KansasI still remember when I came to the US to find that my beloved childhood story was also very popular here but wasn’t exactly the sameI don’t know how many times I read that bookAs a teenager I was an avid visitor to the libraryI was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes and I actually still like detective storiesI have read all my lifeIn college I had to curb my personal reading to focus on required readingBut as soon as I was done with college – I read voraciouslyThat was the internet age and suddenly I learned about so many good book that I didn’t know about beforeSo it has been really saddening for me to not being able to read regularly over the last 1-2 yearsI finish random book here and there while on a ...