Short messages on Positive change from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
The people you compare yourself to compare themselves to other people too. We all compare ourselves to other people, and the people who seem to have it all often do not.
Focusing on the next action in every project you have at hand can greatly simplify your life. Ask yourself, “What’s the next action?”
You are your home; the only thing you take with you everywhere you are. These people crowded round you are part of your wider family.
The reactions you have to others gives you more information about yourself than about them – what you do and don’t accept about yourself.
Originality is beautiful. Big brown eyes, green eyes, blue eyes alike. Your natural skin tone is beautiful. Your hair color and your smile. Your voice, your laugh, and your personality. You are truly beautiful just the way you are!
Don’t look for people who will solve all your problems; look for those special few who will sit down and face them with you.
Treat yourself the way you want others to treat you. The amount of abuse you tolerate in your relationships is often equal to the amount of abuse you heap on yourself.
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
If you naturally avoid something and worry about it, it won’t go away and it may escalate. Find the most direct route of solving the worry and take action.
You can decide not to let others’ actions and opinions invade your heart and mind. You can decide whom to walk beside into tomorrow, and whom to leave behind today.