Short messages on Positive change from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
There is a lot you can do to improve your body image without changing your body. Talking about your negative feelings and developing new ways to think about your body and your self-worth is a good way to address a negative body image.
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If you find it hard starting a large project, split it down into smaller tasks. This way, you can see progress, have more small successes, and learn to manage your time better.
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journals by Meagan
If you don’t like where your story is headed, you can change it. You can write yourself a new one. One where you do things worth writing about. You don’t have to be stuck.
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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? by Sonny Abesamis
Encourage friends through hard times: ask what you can do to help – but only offer if you are actually willing to help. Even if there is nothing you can do, offering sends a strong signal you care.
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Responsible job by studio tdes
Working as part of a team helps your project benefit from other people’s skills that you don’t have. Teamworking is a learnable skill in itself.
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Instead of blaming, take the restorative approach: find out what has happened, who was affected, how you can involve everyone affected in finding a way forward, and how can everyone do things differently in the future?
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Solution image by LTDSupport
Hindsight is when you look back on a situation and would do things differently knowing what you know now. Try looking at current problems as if you are looking with hindsight at them from the future – how would you solve it, what extra signs would you listen to and what advice would you give yourself?
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nestle by Jessica Lucia
We are responsible for our actions – all of them. We are responsible for our thoughts and behaviour, whether deliberate or unintentional. A responsible person makes mistakes, but when they do, they take responsibility and make it right.
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VISIONS Service Adventures, Montana, community service summer programs by VISIONS Service Adventures
If you are unemployed and have too much time on your hands, try volunteering. Not only does it increase your skillset, it creates opportunity and makes you feel better about yourself.
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If you have to change personality in order to be accepted in a relationship, you’re not being accepted for who you are. Is this the right relationship for you to be in right now?
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