If you haven’t been meeting your reading goals, starting a book club might be a good next step.
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This week’s neurodiverse insight and conversation that I’m having is about being a part of and leading a book club. It is not something that most people thought that I would do as a dyslexic as a neurodiverse person. It was perfectly the right thing that I should do to push against some of my neurology. Because reading was such a struggle I avoided it and because I avoided it I did not grow that muscle and there was a whole bunch of data and information and stuff that I wanted that I knew was being held hostage practically from me gaining behind this wall of being able to read, and so many years ago I took that on. I was lucky enough to have a variety of people that came on board and we formed a book club, and that has held us accountable to reading one book a month. I’m not saying that needs to be your bar of standard.
I am encouraging you that there is so much power to be gained in just spending some time reading a good book, and non-fiction or fiction, I tend to read non-fiction but reading is really good for your brain and even though I am dyslexic and even though it is slow, there are so many incredible tools now that you don’t have to do it the hard way. For me that means my reading involves, a hard cover book, a pen, pencil, notebook and highlighter, and my phone or device to listen to the audiobook, because yes I have gone out and gotten the audiobook. I check it out from the library or I get it from Audible, but that I can now enjoy so many more opportunities to gain that wisdom and knowledge that is held behind books. So, that is my encouragement to you. If you’ve been avoiding books, if you’ve been stack piling books, if you look at your bookshelf and you’re like “Oh people keep giving me these, they say they’re really good.” Check out audiobooks. Figure out how you learn, meaning how you get the most out of a book. Figure that out. There aren’t any hard or fast rules there’s just do and move forward, learn and move forward. That’s my encouragement.
So, I encourage you to read a little bit more, to get engaged in that, to enjoy the beauty and the wonder that it is in books, even when it is challenging, it can improve and it can be a lot of fun. I’m JoyGenea, international neurodiversity coach helping people create incredible results in their life with and empowering their neurodiversity, Bye now.