5 TIPS that will help you Cultivate Reading Habit

Do you want to be a book girlie but have no idea where to start? Let me help you! I have been reading books ever since I was 4! (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

🌷Firstly, DELETE THE IDEA in your head that you must read 1 book a week, 5 a month, 10 books a month, take pretty pictures, write book reviews and buy lots of books to be a book girlie. That is the perfect curated content the internet shows you, don't let it steal your identity, remain YOU. Go about your daily routine, just korek some time to read in between your activities.

NOW, here's how you cultivate reading:

1) reduce your screen time

staying on your devices can take up a large chunk of your time. Ask yourself; am I benefiting from watching tiktok 3 hrs a day?😞 If the content you're watching is not helping your mental state of mind or teaching you life skills, then you have your answer.

2) start thin

read thin books, short stories, smol books that are easy to digest and captures your interest. Don't start with a self help book (you'll likely get bored) or a thicc book with lots of characters and complicated world building. Read something that you are interested in.🥰 Refer to picture for some book recs.

3) bring book baby wherever you go

so that when you have time in between classes, you can read. 📚Break time at work? Read. On the train? Read. Waiting for your meal? Read. Your friends are late to lunch? Read. You never know when an opportunity to read pops up.

4) don't compare yourself

with other readers, with the aesthetic, the doodling, the annotations, the book filled with tabs.🥺 You'll get there soon, but you need to start somewhere and you can't start with perfection. You start by reading a day a day, a chapter a week. Slowly, you'll get there. You stay on your own wavelength.💕

5) READING IS FOR PLEASURE

remember that. It is for YOUR own self improvement, YOUR growth, YOUR pleasure. So read whatever tf you want when you're ready. 🤸💞

And that concludes my post, I hope you'll find your own style of doing things and please remember to be kind to yourself, don't judge yourself & others. Everyone is on their own path, life is not linear 🤎 we are being ripened for the bruises to come.

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