Study for 1 Minute

" I ' m going to read English for 60 minutes every day ."

We make goals like this all the time , don ' t we ?

Reading for 60 minutes is easy when we are motivated to learn .

But we don ' t always feel motivated everyday .

Some days we are really busy , tired or sick .

What do we do on these days ?

When we are busy or tired , studying for 60 minutes can feel impossible .

It ' s easy to have thoughts like , " I don ' t have time to study today . I will study more tomorrow ."

On these days , we might end up doing nothing at all .

Sometimes this is okay . Bad days do happen .

But we have to be careful .

If we do nothing one day , doing something the next day gets even harder .

We might continue doing nothing for days , or even weeks .

At this point , it becomes really hard to do anything .

What can we do in this situation ?

Instead of doing nothing , maybe we should do less .

If you can ' t read for 60 minutes , read for 30 minutes .

If you can ' t do 30 minutes , do 10 minutes .

If you can ' t do 10, do 1.

You might think , " What ' s the point of only reading for 1 minute ?"

Even if you read for only 1 minute , you ' re still doing something every day .

And if you do something today , you ' re more likely to do something tomorrow .

" So , what ?" You might say . " I won ' t learn anything in 1 minute ."

Well , let ' s think about that .

Even if you only read for 1 minute a day , that ' s still 6 hours of reading each year .

But there ' s something else too .

After reading for 1 minute , there ' s a good chance you will continue reading !

You might actually start to enjoy it .

Reading for 1 minute could turn into 5 minutes .

5 minutes could turn into 15, 15 into 30, then 30 into 60.

You might forget about the time entirely and continue reading for more than 60 minutes !

Without even realising , 1 minute could turn into hours .

Often starting is the most difficult part .

Once you get started , the task doesn ' t seem so difficult anymore .

How long you study will change everyday .

Bad days will come . We can ' t stop them .

We can ' t always control how long we can study .

But that doesn ' t matter .

What ' s important is that we DO SOMETHING everyday .

It doesn ' t matter how small . Even 1 minute will do .

What can you do for 1 minute everyday ?