TL;DR at the bottom.

This year, I read 2 books per month. Some fiction, but mostly self help. They have helped me through the hardest year of my life, and I owe them a debt of perpetual gratitude. Books were my company this year. They've set me on the right path to start 2018, mentally and socially. They helped me find my new life philosophy (stoicism) and coached me through the rough of university. But in 2018, I'm reading way less. They've set me on the right path, yes, but the path is meant to be walked, not read. Late this year I realized that I liked reading more than I liked applying what they taught me, in practice. There came a point were I knew what I had to do, but instead picked up another self help book, sort of postponing actually using it. It's like walking out of a forest and finally finding the road, but then sitting and reading a book instead of walking down the road. These books got me out of a hole by making me realize there was no hole. And now it's only fair to them that I take action with what they've given me. No more infinite reading, I move on to infinite doing. I'll go back to books eventually, but it should never replace doing the things they teach me, both fiction and self help. There's always a lesson in there.

TL;DR: I'm actually going to start doing what books have taught me, instead of postponing or replacing action by reading another book.