Why You Should Buy a Book to Help You Blog
Over the past few years, I’ve been reading fewer and fewer books. Give me blogs and magazines any day, but an actual book? It’s safe to say that it’s been a while. That was until last summer when I got a creative inspirational book for my birthday. Since I’ve started reading it, it’s made me realise how important it is to read a book. It creates so much joy and can actually support your self-development more than the online world ever can.
So as part of the Blogging Breakthrough challenge, when we’re finally getting to that stage where we’re putting things into action, this is the perfect thing you need. It’s time to start focusing on yourself and growing your creative imagination with some good old-fashioned reading.
Why Are Books so Beneficial?
When you’re a child, you don’t even think twice about reading. I used to devour book after book after book – some I’ve definitely read more than once. I loved escaping into another world and tying myself to each story. It’s important for your growth into adulthood – but it’s given me a completely different perspective now.
No matter whether you’re 14 or forty, that feeling of opening a page of a fresh new book never goes away. Now I’m 24, I realise even more how big of a part reading plays in my personal development. Here are some other reasons why I think reading is so beneficial:
It Gets You Away from the Noise
When you’re reading a book, you’re just reading. All you need is somewhere comfy to sit, your drink of choice (tea for me) and a book. You don’t need social media, you don’t need your notifications popping up every minute – you need quiet. That’s why I want to get back into reading more.
Our lives are surrounded by so much noise lately, coming in every direction. Emails, notifications, messages, to-do lists – it’s like we always have to be tuned in so our mind never relaxes. Reading a book lets you completely switch off from everything. You don’t have to worry about whether or not you shared the link to your latest blog post or whether you replied to that email. The point of reading is so you can let go of all that and distance yourself from the noise to enrich your life.