How would you like to get the equivalent learning of a college degree?

The catch? Just take off one hour of your tv time a day. That is about 365 hours more! What if you take of an hour and a half? Two?

And use this time to enrich yourself by reading a book. In his recent besteselling book, The Success Principles, How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (available online for $13.57 as a pdf file or at National Bookstore for PHP 555.00 - soft bound), Jack Canfield advises taking at least one hour off your tv viewing time a day and use that to read quality books or materials such as self-help, motivation, success, biographies, interest topics, and so on. In 5 years, you would have read yourself to an equivalent education of a college degree.

If you take that a bit further, let us assume that the average person watches 4 to 5 hours a day. Taking two hours off this viewing time would and use this time to read, you would have learned an equivalent of a double degree!

Not only that. Studies have shown that watching too much TV dulls the mind (that’s why many call it the Idiot Box). Tacking Canfield’s advise to hear would help you prevent “brain damage” and therefore would be beneficial to you in the long run.

And you can influence the people around you, especially kids to read too, cascading the benefits of reading and lessening the “idiocity” effects of TV.

An equivalent College Degree education, a healthier mind, brighter, smarter kids. All these if you invest just one hour of your tv time to reading.