Book Nerds

50 Things You Can Skip So You Can Read More

Do you wish you had more time to read? It’s not just about clearing your schedule and saying “Call me later,” although that helps. There are so many ways to save your time, energy, and brain space for what really matters: BOOKS! Check out this list of things you can safely leave behind in favor of more reading time, and vow to skip one today!

  1. Rolling your eyes
  2. Solving for X
  3. Going back through old USB drives
  4. Hating the haters
  5. Napping
  6. Wishing you had a pet pig
  7. Chillaxing
  8. Shazaming a new song
  9. Analyzing your analytics
  10. Browsing the dictionary for esoteric words
  11. Sampling paint chips
  12. Solving a Rubik’s cube
  13. Trying to draw a perfect circle
  14. Checking to see if any of the eggs are broken
  15. Hacking your life
  16. Falling down
  17. Looking for Nessie
  18. Passing the buck
  19. Resisting the passing of time
  20. Smoking
  21. Searching for your keys
  22. Folding your pajamas
  23. Looking for a lost contact lens
  24. Humblebragging
  25. Turtleing
  26. Making multiple trips to carry the groceries in
  27. Trimming your beard
  28. Glamping
  29. Climbing the corporate ladder
  30. Counting freckles
  31. Eating rice cakes
  32. Stealing jokes from Twitter
  33. Wondering what your ex is up to
  34. Lying about what you were doing on Friday night
  35. Tearing off the tags from the pillows on your lawn chairs
  36. Replying just to say “Thank you”
  37. Finding the perfect Pomodoro app
  38. Rearranging your desk doodads
  39. Questioning the Magic 8 Ball
  40. Choosing the perfect emoji
  41. Browning onions
  42. Imagining your acceptance speech
  43. Leaping quantumly
  44. Weighing pros and cons of buying a record player
  45. Looking in the mirror
  46. Getting your aura read
  47. Creating an NSA-worthy password
  48. Faking a smile
  49. Brothing
  50. Pooh poohing non-readers

What are you skipping to read?