Short useful messages from Respect Yourself, the guidance site for young people to help make good decisions in life.
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.
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.
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?
The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice.
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.
Don’t sign up for anything until you know the full costs; make sure you will be able to afford them. This includes sign-up costs, ongoing costs and exit costs.
You’ll get back the attitude you put out. Put out a positive attitude and people will tend to mirror it back to you. Your behaviour and actions influence the people around you.
Libraries are a great place for free resources – free reading books, fact books for studying, and internet access. Library assistants will help you find whatever you need.
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You will end up where you’re headed. If you can see where you want to be, change your steps to get there. Change can be small, and they all add up. (more…)
Make a budget: so you can understand what money you have coming in and exactly where it is being spent. Learn to keep it balanced and not live beyond your means.