19. Swap Self Help Books For Novels
Reading is a great boon for anyone who wants to try something and expand their horizons. However, in our self-improving-obsessed culture, you can find yourself stuck in a whirlwind of self-help books that offer to transform you into your best self, and yet leave you feeling rather flat and deflated when you hit a roadblock. Therefore, one of the best and easiest swaps to implement, is to put down the self-help books and take up a good novel. Novels have long since been considered a great way to bust out of a rut, and give you some literary inspiration. You can find any numbers of heroes or heroines going through the same troubles and journeys as you are - and plenty that you feel glad not to be - and feel that warm rush of inspiration that you can do whatever you set your mind out to do. So, if you really want to try and change your life, then put the self-help books to one side, and pick up a novel that looks set to entice you, and a protagonist or antagonist who is going through the same journey, or aiming for the same goals, and see if they can help you with your own.