Alex thanks for the reply.
so I should say affirmations if I feel somewhat distracted, but if I feel committed, I don't have to?

Dymait - I have had success: if I PR'ed a book before a class, I could understand the lecture better. If I photo read the book before I normally read it, I understood it better and I could skim it faster then I normally would. If I got a non fiction and not textbook book, I tend to be too impatient to PR it and wait a day, so I just read it normally right away. If its a textbook, the task of activation was just to large. Every time I was thinking, maybe I should try the 5 day test to practice activation, I always got stopped by having no books in the 200-300 page range, I had not previously read.