There's a concept I find continually inspiring. That concept is reading books one paragraph at a time.
When I started doing this I was reading Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari. What I found was that each sentence and paragraph triggered many thoughts and ideas in my mind. That made it hard to keep reading through, because my mind was wanting to understand and follow those ideas it came up with. It was testing to see if what the author said applied to my own life, if I thought it was true for me or those around me, etc. At the same time, I wanted to finish the book. I knew the book was praised and I wanted to know that I had read it.
Well, wanting to finish the whole book was making it extremely hard for me to enjoy the process of reading it. I knew that I didn't have to read through 400 pages in suffering. I knew it was possible to enjoy reading, because I had done it before.
When I realized what was happening I had an idea: whenever I wanted to read, I would just read one paragraph and stop. This accomplished several things. It made picking up the book less daunting. It's easier to read when you know that you will be done in less than a minute. It allowed my mind to play with the new information I had just read. No more pushing through. It also made reading fit more easily into my life. I didn't have to block out half an hour. I could just notice the book is there, sit on my bed, open it, read one paragraph, close it.
Long story short, I started applying this idea to all kinds of things in my life. As a result, I started reading more, exercising more, watching more educational content, taking more breaks without devices, eating more healthy foods and mindlessly scrolling less.
Doing the micro version of the thing you wanna do more of, be it reading or exercising, is powerful. It transforms the thing you wanna do from insurmountable (which makes you not want to even think about it) into something very doable. Once you are doing the thing, you get better. Reading is hard, but with practice it becomes easier. Your sensitivity to it changes. You get more familiar with words and with not having a video tugging at your emotions to keep you engaged. Slowly but surely, you change.
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." - G.K. Chesterton