Be Your Best Self
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It can be hard for college students to find time for themselves. College life consists of constant moving: classes, extracurricular activities, and maintaining a social life. Being surrounded by many students your age with so much going on all the time makes it harder to remove yourself from social situations in order to take time for yourself.
Alone time is important, and a great opportunity to curl up with a good book. Whether it be a rainy day reading in bed or reading outside by the lake on a sunny day, taking some time out of your day to read — even if it's just for twenty minutes — can have many benefits. It can help relieve stress, improve memory and concentration and increase imagination and creativity.
Reading personal growth books can help to make sure you stay in tune with yourself and live life to the fullest. Here are a few books to get you started on personal growth reading:
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
In Browns’ book Atlas of the Heart, readers learn the importance of making meaningful connections with other people and how it affects our lives. To do this, Brown takes readers through 87 different emotions and shares how to regulate them. Readers will learn the importance of understanding and having compassion as they go about their daily lives.
It’s hard to stay in touch with our emotions and understand exactly how we feel all the time. It’s part of the reason why we aren’t always comfortable asking others how they feel. Atlas of the Heart is the perfect book to understand our own feelings and feel comfortable with ourselves, as well as other people.
Your Twenties by Jessica Smith
Navigating our twenties can be hard — especially while living among other twenty-year-olds in a college setting. Your Twenties by Jessica Smith is a book about self-love, acceptance, relationships, having a career and more! It’s the ultimate guide to understanding life in your twenties full of life advice.
Our twenties are the most exciting yet challenging years of life. It is said to be the period of time where we experience the most change, as most people transition from college to the real world within their twenties. Smith’s book is a great way to learn about these changes and be ready for them to come!
Falling Forward by John C. Maxwell
Failure. That’s a hard word to comprehend. Most people spend their lives trying to avoid failures with only success in mind. What’s hard to understand is that we have to fail in order to succeed. No one is successful on the first attempt; at some point, everyone is going to experience failure.
Nevertheless, it’s still hard to deal with and understand failure. In Falling Forward, Maxwell tells readers about his own failures and how he came to terms with them. His book teaches readers how to deal with failure, and how to not be afraid of it.
These are just a few of the many personal growth books out there. These three books, each focusing on something different, are great starting points for those who are trying to get into personal growth books, or for anyone looking for a new read. Take some time out of your day for yourself and enjoy these reads!