Cant find time to read?

I love reading. I like to read a range of things; cooking magazines, self help journals, personal development books, fiction and more. I love talking about reading and referencing my thoughts and opinions from books that have struck a chord with me on some level.

However, these last few months have been particularly busy for me. I am juggling many different projects as well as continuing and growing the personal coaching side of my business. The other day I was struck by how little I had read this year. I have been given a highly recommended book to read which has sent me straight into a deep sleep three nights in a row after only a handful of pages. I was involved (or not as the case was) in a discussion about recently released books. I couldn't comment due to the lack of reading on my part. I have to admit to being a little embarrassed about this.

I imagine many people are in a similar boat to me; too busy to read during the day and too tired to read at night. I suddenly wasn't happy however with the solution being no books being read at all. So, I continued to engage in this conversation regarding books. One of the party involved may just have the answer. I was expecting it to be something that would create a hook for me, a new level of motivation, some vision that would somehow make me want to grab a book and read it from cover to cover. And came it did but much simpler than anything I could have figured out alone.

Audiobooks. Yes, simple but brilliant. A resource created for those who struggle to read. Well that was me. Not due to bad eyesight but lack of time and energy. And stop right now those thoughts of the elderly collecting their huge plastic encased tapes from the local library. I had those too. Having looked into it I found we have advanced hugely since those days and the internet provides vast amounts of new releases ready to be downloaded onto those modern gadgets; ipods and mp3's.

In a fast paced world there are still the resources to help us partake in the activities we wish, we just have to find them. And when we do? Pass them on.....