The complete list of all life-guiding messages for young people – click the titles for further information
When we extend a hand to help someone, no matter how big or small, it offers us the chance to step outside ourselves for a minute and understand more of the big picture.
Taking into consideration your current efforts, actions and behaviours, where would you expect to be in five years? This is different from asking where you would like to be.
If you’ve been sent a rude or sexual photo from a stranger, speak to an adult in your life that you trust and tell them what you have received. Report them using CEOP’s website and block them from contacting you again.
If you have sent an image to someone and wish you hadn’t, have an honest conversation with them and ask them to delete it. The quicker you can do this the better – you may be able to stop them passing it on.
If you are under 18 and your ex boyfriend or girlfriend sends a naked picture of you on to somebody else, they are breaking the law. If images are being used against you, you can fill out a report form on the CEOP website.
The only time that people who love to gossip dislike gossip is when it’s about them.
If someone wants people to know something about them, leave it to them to share it. They don’t need you to spread it for them.
In the UK, 2 in 5 of current retirees did not prepare enough financially for retirement. Of these, 2 in 3 didn’t realise this until after they’d stopped working.
If someone had a video of every thought and action in your typical day, what would they see? Would they see you working hard or wasting time? Taking action or being complacent? How you live each day, is how you live your life.
How much time do you waste on non-essential activities? Pick something you’ve always wanted to do but never thought you had the time, and put one hour a day towards it in place of no-value tasks.