I've just noticed that I'm getting more out of books in quicker times...! First 5 or so books took me a while to get through, but since then I've come on leaps and bounds. I don't think particularly that my skills have improved that much, I'm just more trusting of my intuition and relaxed about the process. This really co-incided with a couple of "aha" moments that convinced me that there was more going on than I was consciously aware of.