A couple years ago people would see self improvement books as something for the weak ones that need help, but I actually love to know what other people's idea of the world is. For that reason I never read novels. It's just not my cup of tea. Normally I'll navigate towards a book someone wrote that could really just turn into a lecture. Do you get what I mean?

Therefore, I have set goal to myself that I want to have read twelve books by the end of every year, so one book every month. I started doing this last year and what I've noticed is that my world has become so much wider. I can converse to stragers - something I love doing - much easier because I can simply speak about various subjects. Love it.

Hereby I'd love to show you some of the books I've read, only this year, that changed my aproach to their subjects:

Eat That Frog - Hey you procrastinator, yes, I'm speaking to you! I know, all of us can have a bit of a problem when it comes to completing tasks and crossing things off of our to do lists. Brian Tracy helps you to set your goals and manage yourself to start at the most daugting task so that everything afterwords will be easy to acomplish.

Stuffocation - Minimalism. How often have you heard that word this year only? What I like the most about the author's aproach to minimalism is that he focuses on what you should do and not on what you shouldn't. James Wallman focuses on the fact that the most valuable things in life are moments filled with people we love. It's about the experience and yes, that can cost money as well. He runs off of that image of the new hippies and that's what made me take another look into the idea of minimalism.

The French Beauty Solution - This book is written bij the founder of French skincare brand Caudalie, Mathilde Thomas. You would think she's speaking about beauty all the way through the book but au contrair. She is a french woman leaving in America, so she's tracing parallels between the french and the american women and giving us a great time showing the differences and contrasts. And yes, you'll find a couple beauty recipes to satisfy your beauty cravings including THE recipe to their most famous scrub!

The Bible, Proverbs - Maybe you're a christian like me or maybe you're not but if you would like to know more about the bibble you should start in Provebs. I love Proverbs and was reading this again this year. It's a bible book full of great life advice and only has 31 chapters so it can make well into a month read program. I always recomend you find a bible translation that will better suit you.

Hope I can give you some inspiration for self improvement. You wont be found too often outside of the home anyways so you might as well work on yourself in the meanwhile.