When I was growing up I loved reading. Fiction was my favorite; I’m a huge Harry Potter fan in addition to so many others. In fact, I recently had to clean out my childhood and teenage collection of books…It was no simple feat.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve started reading non fiction (a word that used to make me shake my head in disgust) and I have particularly discovered a love for self help books. I’m coming to realize that it’s mostly because I love reading, validating and relating to the authors who write the books. They somehow put into words what I can only think of and I absolutely love it.
Take SARK’s book for example (you know, the one I’ve been raving about); I think about 90% of the pages have my green pen scribbled all over them underlining things I’ve thought or related to before.
Part of my venture of writing this blog is to enhance my writing skills (and verbal skills for that matter). I constantly find myself searching for the right words to communicate my thoughts. How refreshing it is to seek and find that in my favorite self help books!!
On a slightly related note, I got the app “Elevate” recently (similar to Lumosity)- it is supposed to essentially enhance your brain. One of the activities is geared to help speaking and writing skills. So, hopefully my blogging and app-ing will essentially help me as a writer!!
In the meantime, I’ll be getting to work on reading my giant list of self help books!
Natalie Hope 