The Ultimate Guide to Smart Reading

Andy H.

In this guide to smart reading and with the help of our instructional video, you will learn the secret smart reading habits that will skyrocket your knowledge to the next level!

Whether your goal is to improve the speed of your reading or the quality of your reading, discover practical tips and techniques to enhance your reading skills, improve comprehension, and retain information more effectively.

Whether you’re a student, professional or lifelong learner, cultivating smart reading habits can help you stay informed, expand your horizons, and succeed in your personal and professional endeavours.

Watch my video and learn how to take your reading experience to the next level!

The Ultimate Guide to Smart Reading on my Andy Holt YouTube Channel

What is covered in the Smart Reading Tips video?

I cover some practical skills to help you read more efficiently and also to retain more information. The techniques I use include:

Retaining more information:

  • Underlining text
  • Taking notes
  • Creating an index in the inside front cover with page numbers and key points
  •  Putting the learning into action in your life

Speed reading:

  • Covering over the lines you have read from the top down with a piece of card instead of putting the card below the line ensures that you do not read the same line again
  • Indent the sides of the line by one to two words and only read the middle will dramatically speed up your reading. You will still get the understanding of the text by doing this!
  • Try to avoid speaking the words in your head. Instead, just skim read and let your brain take in the words without speaking them. Note: this is a separate technique if you intend to underline and take notes. Both can still be achieved by simply stopping to underline if you come across something interesting

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About The Author

Andrew Holt is the creator of The Journal for Goal Achievement. He’s an entrepreneur in the cloud software industry, a lifestyle enthusiast, and creator of the Andy Holt YouTube channel where he covers a variety of health & fitness, lifestyle and goal achievement topics aimed at personal-development.


After he made some poor business decisions in his software company in 2019, and with his mental and physical health at an all-time low, Andrew's life began to crumble—he almost lost everything. Andrew enlisted the support of an executive coach who helped him to turn his life around. This became a catalyst for approaching goal setting in a whole new way.


Over the next few years, Andrew developed a new system to set goals and form new habits that helped him to deliver results in almost every area of his life, working only a fraction of the time he had previously. Andrew took everything he had learnt during this period and put it into The Journal for Goal Achievement, so that others could benefit from his methods.


Andrew lives with his family in North Manchester in the UK and enjoys a life of travel, working on his businesses and helping people through content creation and coaching.