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Balancing new friends and old friends at uni

Let me just admit that I was completely awful at this in first year. It's not because I don't love all my old friends it's just that it's easy to get wrapped up in the uni bubble and forget that there's people who exist outside this. I've heard of some people whose friendship groups were solid for yeears- I'm talking early secondary school days whose groups completely fell apart once everyone went to uni or maybe one person from the group completely falling off the map. To me this is quite sad, uni is a time to grow and find yourself and maybe here you have found friends who you genuinely have a lot in common with not just that they were the people you could tolerate the most at your school. Going away and having that distance between friends can sometimes make you wonder if you were friends because you actually got along or if it was just because you saw each other all day everyday. I must admit I sometimes have the habit of severing ties or friendship...

Budgeting for teens

One of the most important tools in having good cash flow is the ability to make and maintain a budget. However a lot of people don't even know where to start or don't have the right mindset to keep it up. Lucky for you I'm going to break down how to create a budget today. 1. Work out your expenses- This may take awhile to do if you are the kind of person who makes a lot of impulse purchases or who has a varying amount of money coming in each money. However for the rest of us this should be simple enough to do. As a teenager most of your money will be spent on going out so a handy tip is to keep the receipts from when you go places or buy things. This can help you to then add up how much you've spent this month and also help to find out how much you spend each month on average. Once you have this number you can really start to put your budget together. 2. Work out your income- Income for those of you who don't know is the amount of money you have coming in eac...

Speaking wealth into your life

Many people spend thousands of pounds every year on going to wealth conferences but luckily for you I'm going to explain one of their most taught processes that helps aid you in becoming wealthy. It is called speaking wealth into your life or a mantra and I will be sharing a few of the benefits of having one. A mantra is simply a few statements that you recite every morning when you wake up that helps put you in the right a frame of mind. (I will be talking about how the way you think about money influences the amount you will get next week, so be looking out for that). It is almost like a reminder of what you want to achieve. Writing a mantra is quite easy but first you have to identify which financial goals you want to achieve. If you want to be financially free then a mantra you could say is "I am financially free and I have no debts" . By saying this every morning it helps you to truly believe it and get more into the rich person mindset. It can also inspire you ...

Why you need to do, to do lists

To do lists, a lot of people have them and a lot of people don't complete them, but is there a reason why a substantial amount of the most successful people stress the need to have and complete one. Well I'm here today  to explain to you why they are so important. 1. Without a  to do list you have no action plan- A to do list helps you to visualize and set out what you are going to accomplish. Without one it's like trying to make a movie with no script and there's a reason why most movies have one. Having a to do should be like having a set of steps which lead up to what you are hoping to accomplish for the day; by having easy to understand steps it can make a  big task seem a lot smaller than it actually is which is a good thing for all you procrastinators. 2. It's holds you accountable- Writing on a piece of paper is quite a permanent thing, which means that having a to do list will keep you accountable. It's so easy to "forget" to do somethin...

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If you're still dating trash boys you need to grow up

Now I'm not talking about the boys that are sneaky, the ones that seem so sweet and innocent and then rip out your heart. No I'm talking about the bait ones, the ones who your friend has told you is trash, your sister, your friends friend, your cousins nephew, everyone has basically told you but you still go for them. You should be ashamed of yourself. A lot of girls seem to be wrapped up in the fantasy of changing a guy, being the one that he changes for but this shouldn't be the aim. Sure if you meet a guy that's trash and he's willing to change for you that's great but I'm personally looking for the ones that have already changed before meeting me or that don't need to change because they were never trash. The trouble with dating former trash is that you're their experiment, old habits die hard and whether they slip up or you believe they still might that's going to put a strain on the relationship. If they've never been in a relation...

God vs uni

I didn't even tell people I was a christian because I didn't feel like one or act like one and I didn't want to give them a bad name. Am I not meant to wear that revealing outfit to the motive, am I not meant to drink, should I just stay in all the time and only associate with true believers. But what if that doesn't feel authentic to me 

Hairstyles and how it affects the men that approach you

Recently I saw a post on Instagram saying that what kind of guys you get approached by can be dependent on the type of hairstyle you have.

Water fight ends with 3rd degree burns?

This whole story happened because of some benches. Deep it, some benches and chairs. Basically we were at youth camp and in all our chalets there were some chairs inside and benches outside. The boys and the girls both liked to all hang out, outside the chalets but there weren't enough seats so they would steal each other's chairs. One day while all the boys were gone the girls quickly went and took all their benches and chairs. When the boys saw what happened they all went into their chalets and started grabbing pots, pans, cups, water guns anything they could use against and naturally a water fight broke out. //sidenote I went back to my chalet to get some more resources for the girls and got spotted by one of the boys who poured a big tub of water all over me. I really took a fat L that day// Now because half of the girls fancied the mandem and wanted to look cute in front of them instead of winning the water fight we all got trapped in some of the girls chalet. There w...