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If you have read the short intro right above this text then you know i do many things at once. Recently, an acquaintance asked me - 

Priyanka, how do you manage all of these things together? i started reading a book for 30 minutes every day, as you had suggested, but could not last beyond a few days! 

i listened empathetically and said - Well, what can i say? Lags are natural but i truly focus on...

Wait! Before i give away the hack, i want you to ask yourself this - Is there anything you have been meaning to get done only to leave it in the middle?

Ask another question - Does this inability to finish what you have started frustrate you? Because if the incompletion of the task frustrates you then it really means something to you.

Now the hack. Let me complete my answer from above.

Well, what can i say? Lags are natural but i truly focus on getting back to it. 

When you focus on getting back, you give your mind a goal to chase. A trophy to conquer. It then turns itself into an expert marathoner who will do anything to hit the target. 

On the contrary, when you focus on the lags or gaps, you give your mind a blockage which does not let it see ahead. More you focus on unproductivity, more blockages are created making the mind blind to the goal eventually.

Currently, i am reading three books - one audio book, one paperback and one on Kindle. Managing three books in a day is no easy feat especially when you are doing other things too (podcasting, writing, blogs, guitar) and these days when i am truly focused on my fundraiser - Main Hoon Na #Iamhere - i hardly get any time or moreover, energy left to think or do anything else. It leads me to reading one to none on some days! 

As i said, i always focus on getting back to the task. On some days, i read two of them and on some, i manage all three of them! Since i am focused on reading all three books in a day, my mind keeps chasing the goal and the moment it sees there is a 30-minutes slot free, it pushes me to pick the book and read. 

30 minutes. That's all i give to one book in a day. Hence, in total i read 1.5 hours at least every single day. 

This is how you get anything done in life. What would you suggest by the way to someone looking to complete a task?

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