#get back into reading

[csuitebitches]

My Personal Goal Progress and Steps to Achieving Them: Part 1, Reading

Hello there. For today’s article, I decided to talk about what my personal goals are and how I plan to go about reaching them.

I’ve realised that I’ve made a lot of content on creating goals, but I haven’t shown how it works for me with real life examples. Maybe showing this little insight in my life will help you manage your own goals better.

My Goals for 2022-end

* Read 6 books

* Lose 5 inches off my lower waist

* Get rid of acne scars

* 20 Medium articles by the end of the year

* Go back to playing tennis

* Be able to read the language I’m studying fluently

Reading 6 Books

I chose six books because I’d rather read six books diligently and properly than read 10 books in a rush. I’ve chosen works that I’ll actually enjoy.

Reading List:

1. The Art of Seduction

2. What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business school

3. Power of pussy

4. Ho tactics

5. Why Men Love Bitches

6. Lean start up

7. Zero to one

8. How to sell anything to anybody

9. The Sweet Spot- how to accomplish more by doing less

10. The 10x Rule

I like a mix of psychology, relationships, business, finance and personal growth.

I have a kindle which allows me to carry all my books wherever I like, and fits perfectly in one of my mini Coach purses.

Often, when I read something and find something interesting, I’ll take a picture and send it to a friend or my mom so that we can talk more about it. I’ve noticed that really encourages me to read more.

Sometimes, especially in financial and business books, some concepts can be a bit more challenging to understand. If I can’t put the book down and explain it to an imaginary person in the room, I take it as I haven’t understood the concept properly yet.

I often highlight paragraphs that I find interesting and can refer back to while writing articles. It gives me more content, another great factor to read.

So how do you start?

- start with something as small as 5 pages. I think that’s very doable.

- I don’t think timing your reading is a good idea because the timer will break your flow of reading. I think the number of pages/ chapters makes more sense.

- Mark things that you find interesting. If you have no one to share things to, send them over to me! It doesn’t matter if we don’t know each other.

- If you used to read a lot as a child and stopped as you grew older, I noticed that reading the things you read as a child could help you get back on track. I loved books as a kid. I struggled finding the time to read in high school but got back to it in college because I began with my favourite subject- fiction. I read a couple of Enid Blyton books again, cover to cover, to “warm up.” That gave me confidence that I haven’t lost interest in reading, I just need to warm up and expand more.

#c suite #powerful woman #ceo aesthetic #personal growth #that girl #productivity #strong women #getting your life together #feminine energy #balance #reading #how to be better #books #get back into reading #get back #reading list #goals #how to be productive

[biromanticbookbabe]

#book suggestions #get back into reading #jack edwards #booktube #books #bookblr #I have read 3 of these-heartstopper passing and we have always lived in the castle #some of these are on my tbr #but I personally don't consider 300 page books short and he does sometimes (unless it's a graphic novel/manga) #a lot of the japanese lit books I have are under 300 pages (and not manga) #I'm also going to probably read silas marner this year it's on my tbr #okay actually I've read 4 I also read Giovanni's room a while ago #I hope I finish a book soon- the draggyness of 2022 has kind of carried into 2023 for me :/ #he has such a range of books I've noticed so I sometimes get my recs from him #I DNFed 14 books in 2022 so I'm worse #youtube #Youtube

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

#marcille donato #falin touden #farcille #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #tw blood #tw body horror #tw gore #as a normal farcille fan this revival has been on my mind since i first read it and getting to watch it is like yippee!! #like messy revivals are everything - the consequences that will haunt u for the rest of the time they are alive #the initial hopeful moments where it all seemed well but quickly descend to That not being the case - losing not only the bit of evidence #evidence that your dream may work out but also someone you deeply care about in the process… marcille my Beloved #ofc wholly thruout the journey - at the forefront of it - getting falin back was the most crucial point but so wuickly :(( it was lost #on the other end its crazy to think about the compoments of falin now - human - dragon (dungeon) - marcille’s magic and desperation #the food the crew cooked (digested) - she is made of many parts!! #also i did not realize how medical it feels to draw smth like this. i dont usually explore the inner parts or use a lot of blood #in my work so rendering everything and looking up refs it felt quite magical (?) #ruporas art

[hoorayiread]

Books to get you Back into Reading!!!

It's a very common occurrence that people who loved reading as a kid struggle to get through a single page as an adult. But getting back into reading can be easy as pie with these fun, light reads!

House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

Who among us doesn't love a spooky haunted house story? This was Danielewski's debut novel and it is quite the fun, quick and easy read about a guy that finds a weird door in his house. The mystery is great for beginners to the horror genre in this light and straightforward book. I myself listened to it on Audible.

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

You can't always judge a book by its cover but Earthlings is as cute and wholesome as the little stuffed hedgehog on the front. This book is about Natsuki, a little girl who's misunderstood by everyone in her family except for her cousin, Yuu. It's a wonderful story about the love of familial relationships and imagination. Talk about life-affirming!

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

This inspiring true story about poor families moving into new homes after eviction is exactly what you need to read to restore your faith in good ol' American capitalism. It will also prove to you that racism doesn't exist because it says that both white and black people can be poor! Plus we had a black president once! Hashtag racismisover. Hashtag gowokegobroke. Hashtag G-d bless the USA, except for California, the liberal hippi state. HASHTAG JESUS WOULD LOVE CAPITALISM TOO IF HE WERE ALIVE TODAY! HASHTAG BILLIONAIRE$ ARE ALL ALPHA MEN. HASHTAG--

... oh god I think I blacked out and typed this list. Happy April Fool's, everyone. These are all great books, but maybe not good to start with.

#april fools #best books #get back into reading #read a book #earthlings novel #evicted book #house of leaves

[skellydun]

who wants to lay on top of me like a weighted blanket and fix me

#i can't use actual weighted blankets bc it feels suffocating but another person? 10/10 #not even in any kind of way i just need someone to crush my body back into some sort of shape that is not exhausted and aching #need me a bear hug and a bear to crush me tbh #the cabin will fix me. i will be secluded and alone and get high one of the nights and have smores. i will take stupid nature walks and read

[applestruda]

doing some background practice again! this time its impulse's base

#i hope this reads well #i wanna get back into practicing again #impulsesv #impulsesv fanart #sorta #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #hermitcraft season 10 #my art

[lancteu]

this has drained me of my will to live

#if the quality gets crunched im gonna be going ghost myself dude #i had this at 600dpi #my art #danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #danny fenton #dp fanart #this took me sO LONG #im so proud of it but watch me despise it in about an hour #lancteu back at it with yet another danny phantom design #let my boy be happy #let my boy be an astronaut PLEASE #i was gonna do glowy freckles but i already was dying with just this i could not be bothered #love flooding my own tags #if you couldn't tell #if you're actually reading these then hi :)

[wilimia]

Dungeon Meshi is fun

#started watching it #very fun! #i tried reading it a while back but couldn't really get into it #might try and pick it up again idk #i randomly got pretty sick tho so lazy art it is #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #wilimia art

[payasita]

God's Mouthpiece (Echo + Narcissus)

silent protagonists, yknow

#cotl #cult of the lamb #narilamb #not a serious au but an idea i had at the grocery store parking lot that made me haul ass back home #at least one of these lines i remember verbatim from reading a version of the myth in school #doodles #comics #i cut so many corners on this but im resolving this year to just. get things FINISHED #SO TAKE IT

[kaijubrains]

Most typical fantasy dragons are huge, powerful things. Discworld is hilarious for essentially making them this but reptillian:

They also explode and die when they are upset/frightened. Which is uhhh... a lot of the time. Fucking pathetic beasts

#rant #discworld #i need to re read/ get back into them man...

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

#dc comics #dc #damian wayne #dick grayson #talia al ghul #batfamily #dc robin #nightwing #anyway. yes im a self-indulgent ''dick as damians secret third parent'' truther #like i DO think it's way more complex and nuanced than the schmoopy affectionate fan portrayal of it #they're brothers they're father and son they're partners they're the dynamic duo except only in past tense etc etc #but consider! I'm not immune to schmoopy affection in fanworks. it compells me despite itself #anyway it's technically not that crazy when it comes to dick and damian. they hug! often! at least they did #it's not as big a leap to these types of scenarios #also talia ''somewhat absent for complex reasons on both her and damians part but very loving and loved by her son'' al ghul #you will always be famous to me #son of the demon origin...bwahhh #anyway. someone made a comic kind of like this/like a post i made abt this topic #but way funnier bc dick and talia starting trying to beat each other up #so go look at that as well #anyway. it's been a somewhat difficult few weeks so I'm. desperately trying to take it easy #i got some reading with me (first vol of kevin smiths GA run that i found second hand and jaimes BB run vol 2!) #so we'll see how far i get through those. considering there's demons in my head telling me to re-read things (LET ME OUT!!!) #when i finish GA and BB i do plan on rereading robin 2021. as a treat to myself #it's a run I've really warmed up to as time went on #I'm keeping up w/ the current b&r run even though it is. admittedly very slow w/ some weird dialogue #i read it for the damian content more than anything. also nikas back so that's neat :] #idk I have a feeling that after absolute power shakes out we might get some more creative team switch ups #so if anyone at dc is interested in taking over the reigns on b&r...that could be very neat #mine

[poladraws]

kimothy

#disco elysium #harrier du bois #kim kitsuragi #reading de fics again #getting back into de

[pencilscratchins]

whats more powerful, the metaphysical force of all space time or two besties with one braincell [ID in alt]

#doctordonna #doctor who #14th doctor #donna noble #fan art #my art #art #my fan art #long time no post huh?! #im getting back into things #i have 2 jobs went through a break up now im just trying to find any time for things i enjoy #and what i enjoy right now? #doctor who christmas special #YEAH THIS IS PRETTY TOPICAL #read: from almost 2 months ago lmao

[mimimar]

finally completed my comic based on the song ivy by taylor swift!✿ please zoom in to read the text and see the details~

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you can get the digital zine pdf here! it includes extras like character profiles, costume design, more art of willow and ivy, zine-exclusive sketches and an illustrated guide to the symbolism of all the flowers in this comic.

you can also get prints of individual pages here!

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#ivy comic #it's finally complete!!!♡ this was the longest project ever but i really wanted to do my best on every spread #i also worked really hard on the extra pages for the zine. i hope you like those as well if you decide to get it! #i've been wanting to make this comic since evermore came out in 2020 and i listened to ivy for the first time #i posted the first sketches from this comic on my patreon in 2022 and released the first page last year in 2023 #so it's been a loooong time coming working on this in between other art #i was always disappointed that i got a hand injury back when i was making my dorothea/'tis the damn season comic #so i couldn't give my 100% on every page of that one. that's part of why i wanted to go all out for my ivy comic #and it has a happy ending this time!♡ #thank you for sticking around if you've been reading since page 1 #and thank you also if you just read it for the first time today! #also i didn't plan it but i coincidentally finished this comic exactly on lesbian visibility week. love that #ivy comic mimimar #oc #ivy #willow #taylor swift #taylor swift ivy #ivy taylor swift #evermore #illustration #illo #comic #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #lesbian visibility week #lesbian art #wlw art #sapphic art

[wearewatcher]

every ghost files live review we see starts with “so i went to the ghost files live show and ryan said” followed by the most unhinged thing imaginable

#ghost files #we read them all #reporting them back to the office #theyre not getting away with this #ryan bergara #watcher

[fungi-maestro]

Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

#seal.txt #tdov #that 'sky and mike' image of the two old trans dudes hugging was one that I had saved to my phone as a trans teen #and i would look at it sometimes and just wonder how they had made it #idk its just nice knowing we live that long and its not a requirement to be skinnyin order to be respected and loved and get old #some of the old 'advice' posts i saw were really completely bizarre and a lot of them stick with me to this day in insecurities #this would have been 2016 ish tumblr so i know not that long ago but i would have been around 13 for reference #weird that i remember so many of the things i read back then. i could probably fill a post with things i was misinformed on due to Tumblr #specifically tumblrs run by people that i didnt really have the knowledge or awareness to understand probably didnt have my best interests #like 'trans rights ' blogs i would follow and not notice until much later were quite the opposite #this is the consequence of viewing social media before i knew all the secret codewords and my brain was much less developed than it is now