I have learned that short daily routines are powerful and effective for improving myself. A daily habit of reading one author or one subject for a period of time is a wonderful way to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One year, I read A Year with C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classical Works<\/em>. As I spent about five minutes with this great thinker each day, I was inspired to articulate faith in a clearer, more persuasive way. It didn’t matter that I had already read many of his books. These short readings were a steady dose of brilliance each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have enjoyed other daily readings, such as Russell M. Nelson’s Daily Joy<\/em>, and Clemency Burton-Hill’s Year of Wonder<\/em>: Classical Music for Every Day.<\/em> Each of these informed and inspired me and gave me a sense of accomplishment each time I read. Dopamine! Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n My daily dose of culture for 2026 is Shakespeare. So far, I have floundered to understand my daily readings, but when something makes sense, a mark is made on my heart. I think that I’ll be able to comprehend Shakespeare better as I continue to spend time with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m most successful if a new daily goal is brief so can be linked easily to my established routines. I learned somewhere that this is called habit stacking. Basically, the idea is to link a goal to something you are already doing. For example, I have an established morning routine, so I might choose to add a 5-10 minute goal during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An ongoing goal of mine is to simply read one page each day. That gets me into a book, then I end up reading much more. It’s an overtly minimal goal, but it’s effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Small daily acts give a better picture of where I’m headed than the things I do occasionally, in the past, or plan to do someday. Brief minutes add up to a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have learned that short daily routines are powerful and effective for improving myself. A daily habit of reading one author or one subject for a period of time is a wonderful way to grow. One year, I read A Year with C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classical Works. As I spent about five … Continue reading Daily doses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-life-according-to-angela","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31611"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31828,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31611\/revisions\/31828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}