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Prepare Yourself
1. Prepare the book you are going to read as you have been instructed.
2. Find an appropriately lighted and comfortable place to read.
3. Preview the material you are going to read as you were instructed.

Warm Up to Read
4. Use the hand to warm up. Move faster than you can understand. Repeat a short section two or three times, faster each time.
5 . Slow down and understand. Use the hand at first to get your beat. Read at a speed you can see and understand. Let your hand keep you moving smoothly ahead and do not regress. Think speed. Push. Relax.

Understand and Remember
6. Remember what you read. If the material is important, read it all again. You have the speed. Show off to yourself. If you don’t need to re-read it all, re-read the parts that are most important to you. Remember what you’ve read.

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Using some of your required reading material, instead of a practice book, will enable you to accomplish several things at once. Doing this will not only increase your reading skill ability, but it will increase your knowledge of what you are required to read.

Unless you make an effort to apply your skills often, you will begin to lose them. Practice, or usage, creates confidence. A new skill becomes a habit through repetition. That is your goal! Create a habit out of your new Rapid Reading Program. Continue to practice. On the other hand,
if the skills are not applied and used continuously, all the instruction and practice will be for naught. They will have no lasting value. We refer to this continuity as the “CIRCLE OF SUCCESS.” If the circle is broken in any area, success in learning the reading and learning skills will be denied. KEEP THE ClRCLE INTACT! Follow instructions in all your practicing. Apply what you have learned.

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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” Thoreau

APPLYING YOUR SKILLS

You have been taught the skills necessary for Rapid Reading. Applying these skills to your everyday, normal reading is very essential. Only you can make your newly developed reading and learning skills work for you. You should always be aware of your skills and use them every chance you can. You will find that you can apply them in many areas outside of those you may have in your mind. Use them when reading newspapers, books, texts, articles, etc. If you do not use your new skills, you will lose them. Your new skills are not yet habitual. You will regress to your old reading habits if you do not practice. The more you use these new skills, the stronger they get and the better you get!

Although normal reading is not practicing, you can strengthen your newly developing skills by always thinking of your new skills and using them as often as you can.

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4 . How much effort are you willing to put into the pursuit of your goals? If there are limitations, you are after the wrong goal. Any obstacle between you and what you want can be removed by having the short range goals directed toward that removal. If it is what you want, no price is too high and no obstacle to high, wide or deep.

5. Keep your goals - Short, Intermediate, and long Range - in your mind’s eye, always. Know what needs to be done, always. Consider a camera taking a picture. If the camera is 10% out of focus, the picture will be at least 10% out of focus. If your goal is out of your mind’s eye 10% of the time, you reduce your chance of reaching that goal by at least 10%. Remember, “Anything you vividly imagine. . ” Keep your goals in focus.

How badly do you want to increase your reading skills? How hard are you willing to work to reach that goal? Set the time to accomplish your reading goal at four weeks. Then, set your short range (daily) goals and your intermediate (weekly) goals, to make sure you get there - on time.

This program will assist you in setting all of your goals, particularly your reading and learning goals.

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Use what you have learned to open doors. There is no barrier between you and whatever you may want to become. Your Rapid Reading skills will enable you to build a strong, successful future.

Follow these directions and they will guarantee your success.
1 . State what you want to accomplish in your life. What do you really want? Regardless of the obstacles and assuming money were no object, what do you really want and what would you do with your time?
2 . How long will it take you to realize each of the goals you have written in step 1? A goal without a deadline is a daydream. Deadlines are essential to create the drive necessary for success.
3 . Determine what short range or intermediate goals you may set and achieve that will keep you moving in the direction of the major goals you are pursuing. Even the movement toward and accomplishment of small goals is motivational and exciting. These make the continued pursuit
of your major goals endurable and much more enjoyable.

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“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” Milton

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUR
GOALS AND YOUR READING SKILLS
Who are the happiest people you know? Are they the ones with the most money? Usually not. The happiest people are those who are always on their way to someplace. Consider this:

“SUCCESS IS THE PROGRESSIVE REALIZATION OF
POSITIVE, PREDETERMINED COALS”
A person is most happy when they are progressively pursuing a goal or objective. It is the journey that denotes success. You cannot reach a goal then stop your progress and still feel successful. If you stop striving, you are stagnant. Successful people always seem to find the means to get what they want. As the saying goes, “If they need money, they get money; if they need people, they get people; if they need ideas, they get ideas.” It is also true that like attracts like. Act successful, do the things successful people do, and you will be successful. These actions develop confidence, belief in yourself and, most importantly, they create desire, which will enable you to pursue your goals regardless of obstacles, resistance, circumstances or the opinions and actions of others. People who don’t really succeed in life, do so because they lack direction and motivation. Without a goal as a guide, you are like a ship at sea with no rudder. You will end up wherever
the seas and wind take you; you have no choice. Be the master of your own fate. Co wherever you wish. Become whatever you choose. Have whatever you desire.

Taken From: THE ALPHA-NETICS RAPID READING PROGRAM

At the end of the IO-minute practice period, remember the entire section. Go back to each two minute mark you made on the page and determine the reading rate for each of the two minute periods. Compare your reading rate for each of the time periods. The rates should all be about the same. Which section did you understand and remember the clearest? If you remember one section better than the others, you need to practice more. With continued practice, you will understand and remember them all the same.

Once again, go back to Period One. Read as fast as you can with good understanding. Time yourself with Timed Interval Period One. Figure your reading rate and record the rate on your chart. DO IT NOW!

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When you read for longer periods, you will have a tendency to slow down. If you are aware of this, it will be easier for you to maintain the “beat” you are setting for yourself. Be conscious of this as you begin the IO-minute period practice.

IO-Minute Period. Begin reading the same section you have been practicing. Keep up your beat. Read with understanding. As you read through the section you have already read and move into new material, you will have a tendency to slow down. DON’T LET THlS HAPPEN! Maintain your beat. When you hear the two-minute tones during the practice period, don’t slow down or stop. Have a pencil or pen in hand and at each of the tones, make a small mark on the page you are reading.

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Periods 4-7. Re-read the same material, but slow down just enough to gain understanding. Do not skim. Do not grab words. Move smoothly and see the words. After each period, stop a few minutes and remember what you read. Each period, push yourself a little harder. DO IT NOW!

Periods 8-9. Re-read the same section again. This time, read the same section at the best speed you can. Push yourself to understand what you are reading, but don’t concern yourself with remembering. If you don’t remember well, don’t worry. Remembering will come. Read smoothly.
- UNDERSTAND. Push yourself. DO IT NOW!

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At the end of the IO-minute practice period, rewind the cassette and use Period One to again time yourself for the record. This time, read without vocalizing, but push yourself as hard as you ever have, without omitting understanding. Read as far and as fast as you can while understanding what you read. Then, record your rate. DO IT NOW!

EXERCISE FOUR

Concentrate on two things in this exercise: Speed and Understanding. Use your practice book again.

Periods l-3. Use your hand if you wish, but move as fast as you can push yourself, seeing all the words. Do not worry about comprehension. Remember, if you see all the words and concentrate, comprehension will come. Move fast, but RELAX. Don’t read to any mark, go as fast as you can. Repeat the same material every period, but each period, push yourself to read a little further than the last. See a// the words. DO IT NOW!

Taken From: THE ALPHA-NETICS RAPID READING PROGRAM