Short messages on Positive change from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
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.
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.
If you have trouble getting up and ready in the morning, get everything ready the night before: pick out your clothes, pack your bag, make your lunch.
Every moment gives you a new beginning and a new ending. You get a second chance, every second. Take it and make the best of it.
Your life is your own. If it’s not the life you want, only you can change it.
Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.
We are reminded every morning that after darkness there is always light. Sometimes we forget and choose to believe that the night will last forever. It won’t. Nothing lasts forever.
Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. It’s not what the world takes away from you that counts; it’s what you do with what you have left.
Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you get hurt, you heal. Everything in life is temporary.