Most reading goals fail because they’re built around books, not days. “Read 30 books this year” sounds inspiring in January and impossible by March. A ritual works better: the same small amount, at the same time, in the same place.
Pick a cue you already have. The first coffee, the train ride home, the ten minutes before lights out. Attach ten pages to it. Not an hour, not a chapter, ten pages. Stop there even if you want to keep going, at least for the first week.
Ten pages a day is a book every few weeks. Small, repeated, quietly enormous.
Make the book easy to reach. Leave it on your pillow or next to the kettle. Put your phone in another room for those ten minutes. You’re not trying to be disciplined; you’re trying to make the good choice the obvious one.
After a month you’ll have read more than you expected, and you’ll have something better than a number: a calm, reliable pocket of your day that belongs to you.