Alana’s Published Books
Mindset, Confidence, and Positivity
Creating Confidence - 2018
What inspires confidence in you? Looking up to someone special? Accomplishing a task or achievement? Or, simply reading a book? One such book, Creating Confidence, can help you towards your own path to self-love, self-acceptance and a healthy appreciation for others. Creating Confidence gives you an in-depth blueprint on how you can overcome obstacles, project self-assurance and rise to your highest potential. Written by a young author who has been on her own journey to higher confidence, Creating Confidence shares everything on the subject with readers, from sound advice, personal stories, self-tested techniques to try out, as well as over a dozen or so inspirational quotes from some of today’s foremost celebrities.
Timeless - 2017
Timeless is a book of poetry written by 13-year-old Alana L. Andrews. Alana expresses her thoughts, feelings and experiences of her life through the eyes of a young teenage girl. She openly expresses how she feels the pain of a lost friend, the joy of spring and what it means to be from the city where she was born. This book of poetry will inspire, move and entertain you. Alana writes from the soul of her heart.
Created by SPI
SPI is an initiative that Alana founded her freshman year of high school. After their online program during the summer of 2020 where 20 high school SPI members from across the country trained 20 elementary students over the course of 4-weeks, the SPI team wanted to create a tangible form of the lessons taught during the program (YLS - Youth Leadership Series) so that all elementary students had the opportunity and access to the programs content.
The SPI book series is a 12-part series where the high school members of SPI, over it’s three chapters, co-author on SPI based lessons to share their perspective on the topics. The series published it’s first book in September 2020, and will be completed in September of 2021. The first seven books are available now right here!
Created by SPI high school members for SPI elementary school students. To build, inspire, and motivate becoming your best self.
The Power of Time - September 2020
In this first book of a 12-book series, the So Positive Initiative (SPI) book series, we talk about the value of time! Time is truly a gift. We must use each second we have to our benefit to make the most positive impact in our daily lives. The Power of Time focuses on the importance of recognizing the value of your time and share ways in which you can use it to get closer to accomplishing your goal! The book shares different perspectives on the importance of time from some of our SPI High School members who have worked with us to create the 2020 Summer SPI Youth Leadership Series. The series was designed to mentor elementary students to help them build their self-confidence and leadership skills. Buckle up, and let us jump right into the first book of the series – The Power of Time
Building Your Dream Team - October 2020
Welcome to Book 2 of the SPI (So Positive Initiative) 12 part book series! We will be publishing 1 book each month of the year! For the second book, we’ll be talking all about building your Dream Team! Who are the people and the influences that you surround yourself with? Are they helping you to become the best version of yourself? Building your Dream Team forms your community of support - a team of people who support you and your goals and bring positivity and kindness into your life! Three of our high school SPI officers & members have shared their advice and perspective on creating your community of support! If you read anything you like, be sure to highlight it and make a note in the back of the book in the notes section. Grab a pen, a nice place to read, and let’s start building our Dream Team!
Tuning Out Unwanted Noise - November 2020
Welcome to Book 3 of the (12-part) SPI Book Series! We will have one book published for each month of the year! All of these books are designed to help mentor Elementary students to build their confidence and leadership skills, based on our summer program, the 2020 Youth Leadership Series! For our third book, Tuning Out Unwanted Noise, we'll be talking about focusing on listening to the positive side of things and not focusing on the opposing side. How do we do this? And why might we hear negative words? What habits should we practice to improve this? This book offers our high school members and officers' unique perspectives, which includes the importance of tuning out unwanted noise and focusing on your own inner voice. Buckle up, and let us jump right into the third book of the series – Tuning Out Unwanted Noise!
The Hustle - December 2020
Welcome to Book 4 of the 12-part SPI Book Series! We will have one book published for each month of the year! All of these books are designed to help mentor Elementary students to build their confidence and leadership skills, based on our summer program, the 2020 Youth Leadership Series! For our fourth book, The Hustle, we’ll be talking about the importance of putting in the hustle in order to achieve your goals. This means putting in hard work for the dreams you have and the visions you create for what you aim to accomplish. With any goal, hard work is necessary to make it come true. There may be sacrifices we have to make, however, these sacrifices will lead us to nothing short than greatness! This book offers the unique perspectives of our high school members and officers. Buckle up, and let us jump right into the fourth book of the series – The Hustle! If you read anything you like, be sure to highlight it and make a note in the back of the book in the notes section.
Values - January 2021
Book 5 is our very first book of the New Year: 2021! As we finish off our first month of the
new year, let’s reflect on values. Values are morals and ideas that you believe in and
hold true to yourself. What do you prioritize? Identifying your values is unique to YOU!
You shouldn’t feel the pressure to follow another set of values you don’t believe in, but
instead you should always follow your own path. Always remember that your actions are
based on your values, so you should always be making good choices that benefit the
greater good.
Passion & Purpose - February 2021
Welcome to the sixth book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, Purpose and Passion! What does purpose mean? What does passion mean? How can we find both of these? By using our mindset to discover new things everyday, that can help lead us to our purpose. Once we find our purpose, passion can help strengthen that. Whether that’s doing what we enjoy or working on what we feel empowered about, purpose and passion drive that. In this book, we share different perspectives on purpose and passion from some of our SPI High School Members who have worked with us to create the 2020Summer SPI Youth Leadership Series, where we mentored elementary students on building their self-confidence & leadership skills.
The Power of Visualization - March 2021
Welcome to the seventh book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, The Power of Visualization ... Gen Z's Guide to Seeing your Goals into Reality! What does visualization mean? How can we visualize our dreams before we actually experience them? When we believe in ourselves, and in our ability to achieve greatness, the dreams that we visualize are the steps that lead us closer to our goals. In this book, we share different perspectives on visualization.
Instilling Motivation - April 2021
Welcome to the eighth book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, Instilling Motivation! What does motivation mean? What does staying motivated mean to you? How can we keep up and stay motivated to turn our dreams into reality? By using our mindset and understanding our “why” it will help us to stay motivated! In this book, we share different perspectives on motivation.
Growing into Gratitude - May 2021
Welcome to the ninth book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, Growing into Gratitude! What does gratitude mean? What does staying growing into gratitude mean to you? How can we practice the importance of gratitude and be thankful for all that we have and all that we are becoming? In this book, we share different perspectives on gratitude.
Building Self-Confidence - June 2020
Welcome to the tenth book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, Building Self-Confidence! What does confidence mean? What does believing in your ability to achieve greatness mean to you? How can we build confidence within ourselves? In this book, we share different perspectives on confidence.
Forming Positive Friendships - July 2021
Welcome to the eleventh book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, Forming Positive Friendships! What does having a friend mean to you? And what does having a positive friendship mean to you? Are these the same things? How can we build our community of support filled with friends who want to help us reach our goals and we want to do the same for them? In this book, we share different perspectives on friendship.
Know Your Worth - August 2021
Welcome to the 12th and final book of the So Positive Initiative (SPI) Book series, Know Your Worth! What does worth mean to you? And what does personal worth mean to you? Do you think it can be measured, or compared? How can we build the steps to recognize our worth and consistently act in a positive state of self-acceptance and self-love? In this book, we share different perspectives on self-worth.