Reading was never something I was interested in while attending school. Nor was it something I thought I would ever do again once I graduated. My choices in life after school seemed to take me on quite the adventure — living in four different states in five years, jumping from all different kinds of jobs. Eventually I ended up working for my father’s family business.
In the beginning, I was excited about the growth and how much I was learning and improving. But after a few years, the unsatisfied bug popped up again. I had a great future set up for me, but I still wasn’t satisfied with what I was doing. So I decided to start reading again. Except this time, I started reading self-help books instead of the fictional, entertaining ones. To my surprise, my life start changing dramatically within the first few months.
Here are three ways reading books completely changed my life:
1. Reconstructed my mindset.
A lot of people don’t understand the power of reading. I hear things like “How can reading change your life” or “Books are just wasted paper; why do you read them?” Before I ever read my first self-help book, I thought I had a fairly decent mindset. At the age of 25, I picked up my very first self-help book and, to my surprise, I was wrong.
I didn’t have the mindset I thought I had. Within three months of reading my first book, I went on to read 10 more. My life changed drastically. Reading books completely opened up my mind to all the possibilities that were around me. I started seeing the world in a different perspective — a more positive and optimistic perspective.
So many people think that opportunities come to only the “lucky” ones, but what I figured out by reading, is that you are the one who brings the opportunities into your own life, you just have to figure out which…