Short messages on Positive change from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
Two skills are important for managing your workload effectively: understanding the difference between nonessential tasks and critical tasks, and knowing how to prioritise your tasks in terms of importance and urgency.
Make sure you don’t squander your effort with long to-do lists that are full of busywork. Each action you do should create some value; some more than others.
After acknowledging an initial disappointment, choose to be optimistic and grateful for what you have. You don’t always get your first choice, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn to love your 7th.
However good or bad a situation is now, it will change. Change won’t always be easy or obvious at first; if you learn how to embrace it, in the end it can be worth it.
Your natural human fears of failure and embarrassment will sometimes stop you from trying new things. Rising above these fears enables you to make unique experiences part of your life.
People are not mind readers. They won’t know you’re struggling, or how you feel, unless you speak to them about it, clearly and unambiguously so there’s no room for confusion.
When you invest in yourself, you can never lose, and over time you will change the path of your life. The more time, energy and money you spend learning things important to you, the more control you have over your life.
“There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.” – Henry Drummond
Don’t sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now; the somebody the world needs is YOU.
The world doesn’t owe you anything, you owe the world something. Stop daydreaming and start doing. Take control. You are important, and you are needed.