We have all been through the stage of reading fiction books, addicted to the idea of what goes beyond the universe. Reading those types of books made us forget our troubles and stress for a moment.
We all have those moments of escaping reality with those books. The reality is you cannot escape it; you cannot run away with what real life presents to you. With these overwhelming struggles in our reality, we often hide in a simulation, and we lost that sense of ourselves because we are used to witnessing other people’s success.
There are countless self-help or self-improvement books that teach us how to achieve happiness, or how to feel success and glory. But the thing is that is not what life is, accepting struggles and problems is what makes us alive.
These 5 self-help books will help you realize that life is not just about feeling glorious and stops you from getting addicted to the idea of other people’s success.
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson
A lot of people thought that this book is about giving a care about nothing, but it is about choosing what you give a care about.
A lot of us spend our time caring about things that we shouldn’t care about, this book points out why should we care? What are the things we should care about?
The whole motif of the book is about the path to positivity, all of us want positivity, but then in order for us to achieve that happiness is through our tolerance with negativity. Experiencing negative emotions actually helps us to feel happy, because it exercises our mind to work a way out of that negative emotion, facing it and addressing it, instead of finding a way to run away from it.
It discusses several things like; You cannot be happy without sacrificing, the need of having a goal, emotional health, uncertainty, using failure as a tool to move forward, and many more.
If you do not mind humor and profanity on self-help books then this is definitely a good book to put on your reading list.
This was published in 2016, but to this day the word in the books resonates.
2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
If you are looking for a book that will help you change your habits, this is the perfect book for you.
Looking up online about the tips and tricks on how to have a good habit, and despite all of those efforts, watching every minute of that life guru’s advice is wasting your time.
Sometimes there are triggers that make us want to change the way we live and change our habits to achieve that life we wanted. Often times because we have this vision we dream big and create unrealistic objectives for ourselves.
Then when we try to put that vision into action, we realize that it is difficult to achieve, and in the end, we fall back to our old habits.
This book that James Clear wrote, is all about the little changes that we make through our day that makes a massive difference. These atomic habits are the key to our breakthroughs.
It tells us that change is not visible without patience. Everybody should have this book on their bookshelf.
3. Declutter Your Mind: How To Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, And Eliminate Negative Thinking by Barrie Davenport and S.J. Scott
It is a suitable read if you are finding it difficult to relax and destress, and because you are easily distracted and unfocused it is difficult for you to be productive.
You have so much going on in your mind with no way of venting it out can affect your everyday thoughts and the way you live your everyday life.
Not knowing what stresses, you out is piling on the things that clutter your mind.
This book is for the people who bottled up stress that causes burnouts and eventually results in negative thinking.
This is a good book to start with if you are looking for simple ways to declutter your mind. It suggests the most simple but effective ways.
It suggests things like mindset monitoring and mindset improvement. Go and give it a read to find out the other tips, definitely give this book a read if you are craving that peace of mind.