"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes:  we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. "
Charles

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I got a copy of this book in Waterstones. It was one of those books that you randomly pick up in the business section and the description of the book intrigued me. It was a management book written as a novel - and it also had great endorsements so I purchased it. An impulse buy to be sure but one that I have not regretted.

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Well today I finally sat down and figured out the speed reading posts, made some notes and gave it a go.

I first figured out the speed at which I read normally and I was quite please that it was 340 words...

I am sat here watching TV and enjoying a beer. I have just witnessed a Tesco TV commercial where they told me that they were "committed to helping me spend less". The question is: do I believe them and is there any evidence to support that claim? Because if you make a claim like his you had better make...

I have never been great with languages - but I do have a real desire to learn to speak another language. So I have chosen to learn two new languages - Spanish (and then followed by German). German is an obvious language to learn as I work with Germany on a regular basis - but I chose to learn Spanish...

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