When I started blogging I spent as much time learning the craft as I did writing and posting articles. So much of this time was spent reading other sales blogs, blogs about blogging, blogs about marketing and entrepreneurs. Then, six months in I read a great post on Life Hack that challenged me to read more books. The post was so compelling and a few years back I had dropped my healthy habit of reading several books a month.

Well at that point, I was working on dialog with several other bloggers, understood how to optimize my blog and all the other great tricks of the trade. So, take the challenge I did, and to take it further I started reviewing 2-4 books on my site a month. That way could I commit to such an endeavor and still channel it into the blog. Well, I stopped networking and reading other business blogs, and frankly I regret it.

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