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# Daily Lab: More is too much
- URL: https://kelfordinc.com/daily-lab-more-is-too-much/
- Published: 2023-05-17T10:25:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-27T17:33:12.000Z
- Description: How little can you do, how often?
- Author: Joel Kelly
- Tags: Daily Labs, habit, practice, patience, persistence, action, books, process

Can random Internet trivia change your life?

Years ago, I’d become frustrated and intimidated by my growing stack of “to-read” books. I’d fallen behind on reading, and I was getting the sensation I was falling behind on my work.

**I wasn’t reading enough, I wasn’t *learning* enough.**

And then, somewhere on the Internet, lost now to memory and time, I read a simple fact:

“If you read 25 pages a day, by the end of the year you’ll have read more than 9,000 pages.”

I opened my calculator to confirm and, what do you know, it’s true.

**If you read 25 pages a day, in a year you can have read 10, 900-page biographies. Or maybe 40 or so business books. 25 or so novels.**

Wow.

In that moment, I realized the secret isn’t to have one big reading vacation like we all hope. It’s not to have “[One Big Day](https://kelfordinc.com/one-big-day/)” and get through all the reading—or any other task that’s important to us—all at once.

**The secret is to do as little as possible, as often as possible.**

It’s been years since I read that fact. And, in some of the years since, I’ve read 100 pages a day. Some years—like this one—it’s closer to 15.

But it’s never none.

Maybe reading’s not your thing, but I suspect there’s *something* you wish you were doing, or could get done.

Maybe it’s your social media posts. Or writing the new copy for your website. Or planning a new service offering. There’s probably *something* you wish you had time to tackle.

So think about it this way: How little could you do, every single day?

Because, it turns out, if you want to do a lot of things, doing more is too much.

**But doing less lets you do lots, forever.**

🧠

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