A reading slump is a state in which you just do not want to read because you feel like you are just reading the words on the page and they are not flowing in (iykyk).

What Are Reading Slumps

<ul><li>You just don't want to pick up any book and read it.</li><li>You quickly lose interest while reading a book.</li><li>You are replacing reading with other, possibly worse, activities.</li><li>You tend to self-sabotage yourself when it comes to procrastinating on reading.</li></ul>

Signs To Notice

As humans, feeling a loss of control about any area of her life puts us down, and this applies to reading books as well. This is why reading slumps are the worst states for avid book readers to be in. Good for you, though, there are ways in which you can get out of it.

It's A Bad State To Be In

Fiction or Non-fiction? Romance or Thriller? Slow-burns or binge-reads? Identify your types. Awareness is a key aspect of change. Find out which genres you like best, then get a good-rated book of that genre to read. It's okay if the book you choose is popular, because your main priority should be to start reading and NOT to finish the book. Don't immediately set a deadline and pressurise yourself. If this tip seems a tad-bit difficult for you, I have more easier ones to try first below!

1. Identify Your Favourite Genres

This tip is an easier one since you can probably start right away without searching and buying a new book. This allows you to get into reading again while feeling comfortable because you know that what you are reading is good because YOU liked it. It gives a sense of assurance which helps in forming a reading habit again.

2. Re-read A Favourite Book

Reading with others is always fun! Get a book buddy to read with. Social media platforms are very helpful for this. A book buddy can hype you up, read with you, and discuss book theories and plots with you too! A real-life book buddy is definitely better than an online one, but you can work with what you have.

3. Try Co-reading

Have a designated space dedicated to reading books. This can be a particular beanbag, your couch, or even a gifted mat you like. Try to make the space comfortable and cosy to motivate yourself to read. This tip works wonders! Experiment with the lighting and accessories around you for an even better experience

4. Set Up A Reading Station

This one is pretty easy. You can make vision boards about books and reading very easily on Pinterest. Make sure to include books from your TBR

5. Make Vision Boards

These are just some basic tips, but try them to start becoming the reader you want to become. Reading should be fun and enjoyable, and getting out of a reading slump will make you realise that! Trust the process and make it work. Follow for more tips!

Kickstart Your Reading Journey Again

Reading slumps can be bad, I know, but what's worse is not being able to get out of them. Here is some practical advice for you to jump back into your reading game!

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How to: Get Out of A Reading Slump 

<ul><li>Long-Term Benefits : Ensures continued personal growth and self-awareness.</li><li>Habit Formation : Embeds journaling into your daily routine.</li><li>Consistent Reflection : Provides ongoing clarity and emotional balance.</li></ul>

Purpose

<ul><li>Routine Benefits : Regular journaling enhances mental health and well-being.</li><li>Personal Development : Continual growth and self-improvement.</li><li>Life Documentation : Captures your life journey and experiences.</li></ul>

Benefits

<ul><li>Set Realistic Goals : Start with manageable time and frequency.</li><li>Create a Ritual : Integrate journaling into your daily routine, such as after breakfast or before bed.</li><li>Stay Flexible : Allow for changes and adjustments to keep the habit enjoyable.</li></ul>

How to Start

<ul><li>Start Small : Commit to just a few minutes each day.</li><li>Use Prompts : Rely on prompts to keep your writing varied and interesting.</li><li>Reflect and Review : Periodically revisit your entries to see your progress.</li></ul>

Tips

Journaling is a voyage to the interior.

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Dear Readers,

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Motivation & Inspiration

Journaling for Personal Growth : Day 7

Don't let your happiness rely on someone else. It's you and only you who can should be able to decide your happiness. What someone does should not decrease your happiness, this does not mean you are detached emotionally or you can't react to something; it simply means what you do should make you happy and not how or what someone else does should impact your happiness.

Happiness Should Be In Your Hands

Happiness is how and what you think, how calm your mind is will determine your happiness. A fuzzy mind would not be calm, always have a clear picture. Stay away from places, things or people who makes you uncomfortable or find a way for them not to have an impact on you.

Happiness Is A State Of Mind.

Ensure what you hear about you is positive, everyday talk to yourself. Say positive things out loud for you to hear as this will positively impact how you see yourself

Talk Positive.

If something negative happens, top it with something positive. If someone said something negative about you top it with thinking something positive about you or about the person who said it

Stay Away From Negativity

Write something that made you happy and journal everyday. Look back and smile

Journal

Hear yourself laugh, this also will make you happy. Watch a sitcom or something that you find funny. Laugh out loud or sometime force a laughter and watch how it becomes a real laughter

Laugh Out Loud

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Happiness made simple

You will never be where you are right now again. Enjoy this little unique part of life, try to take it all in, learn from it, and be excited for a new chapter to unfold.

Enjoy Your Current Life Situation

Appreciate moments that pass too quickly indoors. Feel the wind, the rain or the sun on your skin. Enjoy the view. Nature is home.

Get outside and let time pass.

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Exercise & Fitness

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Time Management

Be Present & Enjoy Life

● DEEP WORK: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. Create new values, improve your skills and are hard to replicate● SHALLOW WORK: Noncognitively demanding logistical style tasks, often performed while distracted. Tend to not create much new value and are easy to replicate.● THE DEEP WORK HYPOTHESISThe ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare and valuable in our economy.The few who cultivate the skill, will thrive.<a href="https://elevatedpath.beehiiv.com/subscribe">The Art of Habits</a> (It's free)

DEEP WORK VS SHALLOW WORK

● RULE #1 - WORK DEEPLY : How to integrate deep, work into your schedule to help you reach the current limit of your concentration ability● RULE #2 - EMBRACE BOREDOM : How to improve your ability to concentrate intensively and overcome your desire of distraction● RULE #3 - QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA : How to identify the core factors that determine success and happiness. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts substantially outweigh its negative impacts● RULE #4 DRAIN THE SHALLOW : How to identify the shallowness in your current schedule and cull it down to minimum levels

RULES FOR FOCUSED SUCCESS IN A DISTRACTED WORLD

💡DEPTH PHILOSOPHY: Find an approach that makes sense for you: Monastic, Bimodal, Rhythmic or Journalist💡DON'T WORK ALONE: Hub-and-Spoke: both serendipitous encounters and isolated deep thinking are supported. Working with a shared whiteboard push you deeper than working alone💡EXECUTE LIKE BUSINESS: 4 Disciplines of Execution<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on the important</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Act on lead measures</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Keep a scoreboard</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Create regular meetings</li></ol>💡BE LAZY: Create a shutdown ritual. "When work, work hard. When you're done, be done."

RULE #1 - WORK DEEPLY

💡TAKE A BREAK : Schedule the occasional break from focus to give in to distraction.💡PRODUCTIVE MEDITATION : Take a period in which youre occupied physically but not mentally and focus on a single well-defined profissional problem.💡 MEMORIZE CARDS : "Attention control" the ability to maintain your focus on essential your information. A good training is memorizing a deck of cards.

RULE #2 - EMBRACE BOREDOM

"I will live the focused life, because it is the best kind there is."

💡 LAW OF THE FEW : Identify your main goals. List 2 or 3 activities that help your goals. the tools have a substantially positive impact. Use 80/20 law.💡 QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA : Ban yourself from using them for 30 days. Don't mention it online. "Would the 30 days have been notably better if I had been able to use the social media?"💡 DON'T USE THE INTERNET TO ENTERTAIN YOU : Give your brain a quality alternative, like books

RULE #3 - QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA

💡 BLOCK TIME : Schedule every hour of your day. Decide in advance what you're going to do.💡 QUANTIFY THE DEPTH : Evaluate activities by asking. "How long would it take to train a smart graduate to complete this task?"💡 FINISH AT 5:30 : A commitment to FIXED-SCHEDULE productivity shifts you into a scarcity mindset.💡 HARD TO REACH : Make people do more work to send you an email. Reply to "dose the email loop". Don't respond.<a href="https://elevatedpath.beehiiv.com/subscribe">The Art of Habits</a> (It's free)

RULE #4 DRAIN THE SHALLOW

Deep work is the ability to focus on a difficult task for a long time without getting distracted. It's a skill that's becoming increasingly rare and valuable in a world full of distractions. 


Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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Deep Work

If life was easy than you won't be able to enjoy it, without knowing saddness you can't enjoy happiness.

Life Is Not Easy!

Remember to enjoy the ease to maximum, that way when hardship hits, you know you had ease and ease is yet to come.

After Ease, Hardship Comes.

Ever think of just quiting and giving up in life. Well! DON'T!!! have seen people whom you would think would never be missed being missed. Believe it or not there are many people who loves you even if you didn't realize it.

Giving Up Is Not A Choice

A dimond would not be so precious and beautiful if it didn't take the heat. Life becomes beautiful with its ups and down.

Life Is Beautiful

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Just about life

<ul><li>Increasing Self-Awareness : Helps you understand yourself better.</li><li>Uncovering Values : Identifies what’s truly important to you.</li><li>Fostering Personal Growth : Encourages introspection and personal development.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Enhanced Self-Understanding : Gain clarity on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.</li><li>Improved Decision Making : Align choices with your true self.</li><li>Greater Life Satisfaction : Live a more authentic and fulfilling life.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Choose a Prompt : Select a prompt that resonates with you.</li><li>Write Freely : Explore the prompt in depth without worrying about structure.</li><li>Reflect on Insights : Review your writing to uncover new insights about yourself.</li></ul>

<ul><li>What are my core values and why are they important to me?</li><li>When do I feel most authentic and true to myself?</li><li>What are my biggest strengths and how can I use them more effectively?</li><li>What fears are holding me back and how can I overcome them?</li><li>Who are the people that inspire me and why?</li></ul>

Example Prompts

<ul><li>Be Honest : Write truthfully about your thoughts and feelings.</li><li>Take Your Time : Don’t rush the process; give yourself time to reflect deeply.</li><li>Review Regularly : Periodically revisit your answers to see how you’ve grown and changed.</li></ul>

Tips for Effective Self-Discovery

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom

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Journaling for Personal Growth : Day 6

Giving to others can make our life more meaningful. As giving can make the receiver happy and we too, will be happy. What is there to lose if we are giving? In the way, we are also giving back to society just like how society give us so much.

1.Have the joy of giving

the idea here is to "BE CURIOUS". This way we can learn and improve ourselves. Being curious in a relationship can also strengthen bonds. Having the courage to voice out your questions, is already commendable. It is okay to ask even a logical common sense question, because we are all learning.

2. There are no dumb questions

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness 💗 "

Make good use of your time. Make use of your time to spend time with family. It can be anything. Priortising helps us to differentiate what we want and need. This is important to lead a more productive life.

3. Priortise

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3 ideas: Be the best version of yourself

“Success arises out of the steady accumulation of advantages: when and where you were born, what your parents did for a living, and what the circumstances of your upbringing will all make a significant difference in how well you do in the world”

A must read!! A well told story by Gladwell that discusses and dissects the story of success; of our generation and those before us. An ULTIMATE guide and analysis of why some of the most successful and influential people are where they are and or where they have been.

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

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Career

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Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers.

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Outliers

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Learning is a skill.

80% of the results come from 20% of the inputs.Take time before you start learning something to identify the most important 20%.For example:Guitar - The 20 chords used most in popular songsLanguages - The 500 most commonly used words

Use the 80/20 Rule

Your brain is a complex machine.If you can get more parts of it firing, you will be more likely to remember what you're studying.<ul><li>Books</li><li>Audio</li><li>Video</li></ul>Experiment with different ways ofstimulating it.

Learn from multiple sources

Fuck the 10,000 hour rule.Studies show that you can become proficient at something in as little as 20 hours.But how you use that 20 hours is critical.An amazing TED Talks goes deep on this topic

Dedicate 20 Hours of Focused Learning

Learning Spanish?Moving to Spain is probably going to fast-track your progressThis can be applied to other skills:<ul><li>Coding - Start a project with friends</li><li>Guitar - Join a band</li></ul>Put yourself in the environment best for learning.

Use immersion

STEP 1: Identify a topicSTEP 2: Try to explain it to a 5-year-oldSTEP 3: Study to fill in knowledge gapsSTEP 4: Organize, convey, and review

Use The Feynman Technique

You may be able to scrape through your calculus exam by cramming all night--but a week later you won't remember a thing.Your brain will reward you for using spaced-repetition.I recommend an app called Anki for this.

Distributed Practice > Cramming

Good for learning= putting information into your brainBetter for learning⁃ recalling information from your brainTest your knowledge early and often.This will also help you identify weak pointsthat you can come back and target later.

Test Yourself

To each their own.But research shows that retention ratesimprove when we pick the pen and paperover the mouse and keyboard

Handwriting > Typing

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