Top 10 Tips Archive

Latest Top 10 Tips...for improving your self-esteem:

1. Challenge your negative thoughts
2. Reward yourself when you have achieved something
3. Remind yourself of your strengths and what you have achieved in the past
4. Ask friends or family to tell you what they like about you or what they think you do well
5. Try new things
6. Recognise what you can change, and what you can't. Act on what you can change, and move on from what you can't
7. Set goals for yourself with a realistic time frame to achieve your goals
8. Exercise and keep healthy
9. Have fun in everything you do
10. Do what you love - join a club or do a hobby that you really enjoy

Latest Top 10 Tips...for making friends:

1. Don't be too critical of yourself
2. Feel good about yourself by recognising your strengths and qualities
3. Make the first move - don't wait for people to talk to you
4. Don't take yourself so seriously - feel free to laugh at yourself and not be too self-conscious
5. Get out there - join a new group, club, band, sports team, anything that you're interested in!
6. Make the decision that you won't let other people make you miserable or feel bad about yourself!
7. Be honest and open
8. Give lots of genuine compliments!
9. Be caring and a good listener
10. Don't judge other people - be there for other people but don't put them down or make them feel bad about themselves

Top 10 Tips to...a free fun day

1. Go to the beach with friends
2. Make a scrapbook with all your fave photos
3. Sit outside with a glass of OJ and a good book
4. Re-arrange your bedroom to a more funky layout
5. Go window shopping with friends
6. Watch some dvds with friends
7. Have a picnic
8. Have a girls day out
9. Make mini-pizzas with ingredients already in the pantry
10. Hang out at a friend's house

Top 10 Tips...for the best summer holidays:

1. Have all your friends over for a movie marathon
2. Save up some money and buy the top/skirt/jacket/clothing that you've been wanting for ages!
3. Make ice milkshakes in cool cups and relax by your pool (or your friend's pool!)
4. Take photos of all the fun things you did in the holidays, then print them out and make a scrapbook at the end of the holidays, with all your pics and captions!
5. Read your favourite books again
6. Go shopping with your friends
7. Go for a horseriding trail ride or horseriding lesson with your friends
8. Go ice-skating at an indoor rink on a hot day!
9. Go roller-blading
10. Give a friend a surprise party

Top 10 Tips...for becoming more confident

1. Keep a journal where you write down any experiences or feelings important to you. Reflecting on your journal helps you to become more aware of who you are and where you want to go
2. Exercise and eat well
3. Find a good role-model who you admire and respect, talk to them and find out how they developed their confidence
4. Act as though you are already very self-confident. Imagine what a confident person would be like. How would they walk, talk, behave? Then imagine that you are that confident person, act like it and see what happens!
5. Learn from your mistakes and remind yourself of the positives of each situation
6. Believe in yourself, throw away any self-criticism
7. Take control of your thoughts: Turn negative thoughts such as "I'm fat" into positive thoughts
8. Challenge yourself: Grow by taking steps out of your comfort zone
9. Set goals: short, mid and long term, and set actions you can do TODAY to get yourself on the way to achieving your goals
10. Start to like yourself: Accept what can't be changed, and work hard to overcome the issues that can be changed!