The complete list of all life-guiding messages for young people – click the titles for further information
The most honourable thing is not to never make mistakes, but to admit to them when you do make them, and then to follow through and do your best to make the wrong things right.
The relationships that work well are the ones that make you a better person without changing you into someone other than yourself, and without preventing you from outgrowing the person you used to be.
Monitor your energy during the day. Arrange your most difficult tasks for periods of high energy and the easier, more routine, tasks during periods of low energy.
There will be times during the day when you have high energy levels and you can get a lot of work done very quickly, and other times when your energy levels drop.
Find the easiest way to do something properly.
Those who complain the most, accomplish the least. It’s always better to attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
If you smoke 1-4 cigarettes a day, you are 5 times more likely to die from lung cancer than a non-smoker.
Lung cancer risk increases with smoking duration and amount; duration has the most effect: smoking one pack of cigarettes a day for 40 years is more hazardous than smoking two packs a day for 20 years.
When you set yourself an objective, understand fully why it needs doing before you start thinking about how it could be done. The ‘how’ doesn’t stop the ‘why’.
Rather than work harder, you can work smarter. When you work smarter, you remember what you are trying to achieve and you focus on tasks which help you to achieve this.