Often caregivers who have a lot on their plates, still want to increase their opportunities to learn. Whether it’s about things that concern their careers, their home lives or their caregiving responsibilities; reading through necessary documentation can be a time consuming project that’s hard to find time for. In order to address this challenge, caregivers can increase their reading speed by trying out the following tips and techniques:

1. Learn active reading – often when reading our minds drift away and we’re not totally engaged in what’s in front of us on the pages. Try to more actively engage your mind by taking notes, doodling keywords or underlining key words in passages. This will also help to engage your memory

2. Try a reading software – software programs like EyeQ teach you how to physically read faster by helping you learn how to move your eyes back and forth more quickly when reading

3. Try a technique called Photoreading – if you’re reading for the sake of gathering specific information alone from a document, you can increase your reading speed with this technique which teaches you to focus on what you want to get out of the book or document

Sources:

1. Gaia

2. Nina Potter

Home Instead Senior Care serving elders and seniors in San Jose, Los Gatos, Santa Clara and Saratoga home care - 408-370-6360.

Each and every day that goes by, you might feel like you just haven’t accomplished everything you wanted to and that’s because 24 hours in a day just isn’t always enough. While we can’t increase the number of hours in the day, we would like to help you make the most out of the hours that you do have in everyday so you can increase your productivity and accomplish your goals. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be discussing the below points and providing you strategies to make your 24 hour days seem longer:

1. Sleeping for productivity

2. Eating your way to a 36 hour day

3. Learning to multi-task effectively

4. Organizing your way to success

5. Learning how to get it done faster

6. Learning while multi-tasking in your free time

7. Using technology to increase productivity

8. Turning off

9. Asking for help

Via: Gaia.com

Home Instead Senior Care serving elders and seniors in San Jose, Los Gatos, Santa Clara and Saratoga home care - 408-370-6360.