Short useful messages from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
Schedule outdoor activities to avoid the hours when the sun is at its strongest – when directly overhead. Doing this can help to minimise exposure. Where possible, rearrange your day’s schedule to spend time outdoors when the sun is lower in the sky – early mornings and late afternoons (11am-3pm).
If you do a job lazily, you will need to do it a second or more times to get it done properly. So being lazy about it makes more work for you than there was initially.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they will grow bigger and stronger. Try spending only 20% of the time thinking about the problem, and 80% on the solution.
Your thoughts are your own. Your thoughts direct your actions. They are completely under your control – so use them to benefit you.
Add at least 10% extra as contingency when planning – in terms of time/cost/effort. This applies to all activities – homework, journeys, house jobs, shopping.
Decide that you are going to start each day thinking about your goals, your dreams and your positive possibilities. As soon as you wake up in the morning, start throwing out those nagging doubts and worries. Concentrate, instead, on the things you have decided to accomplish in your life.
Tactile Learners can benefit from trying the following when studying: studying in short blocks, doing role play and experiments, taking trips and visits, studying with others, and using memory games and flash cards.
Auditory Learners can benefit from trying the following when studying: using word association, repeating facts with your eyes closed, doing group discussion, using audio tapes and taping notes after writing them.
Visual Learners can benefit from trying the following when studying: drawing maps of events and scientific process, taking notes, making lists and outlines, using colour and highlighting, underlining words, using video, diagrams and flashcards.
Auditory learners are those who learn best through hearing things. Visual learners retain more information when they use visual aids, and tactile learners benefit by doing hands-on projects.