At some point in your life, how many of you have read a self-improvement or ‘self-help’ book? Or how many of you have made a New Year’s resolution?
Before we get to today’s blog post on how to prioritize things in your life, I want to tell you a little story. It’s a story about the mayonnaise jar and the cup of coffee and it goes like this:
If I were to ask you to name the single most effective thing that we can do every day both to reset both our body health and our brain health, what would you say?
You and I meet on the street, and I say to you: “Hi, I’m Rick, it’s nice to meet you.” Before you respond with your name, you say to yourself: “Ugh, I can never remember names.” What do you think the chances are that you remember my name? Probably not good, right?
A lot of my friends ask me how I am not only able to read so much, but also retain so much of what I read. I wish I had a silver bullet I could share with you, but there is no one answer.