Don't worry be happy

By Danny Moss

This weekend choose a day and try to forget all your worries and just relax. Do something for yourself, something that will ease your stress and will allow you to focus on the good side of life. As school is ending shortly our stress level is starting to build up. The best medicine for us is to take a full day and spend it on ourselves. Even the small things such as going out and grabbing a coffee, playing guitar, or going on a nice bike ride can ease your stress. You can also find that when studying for a long, hard exam its best to take a short break and clear your mind. Doing so will allow you to rejuvenate and to relax, which is a good method that I use when studying. So forget you worries and struggles this weekend and enjoy life’s pleasures by allowing yourself to live.

Some ways to enjoy life!!
-Try to forget your worries
-Help others, will help you feel better
-Make goals everyday
-Never forget the good times in life!!

I want to shift your attention to a site that has really inspired me. Take a look and hopefully you can be inspired too!  http://noquestionleftbehind.blogspot.ca/

The Fear of Public Speaking

If your fear for public speaking is greater than your fear of dieing than your not alone. In 2012, more people selected being afraid of public speaking over their own deaths.

When you have a fear of public speaking you can cause a lot of harm to yourself inadvertently, especially in your career or in school. In your career if you cant speak well publicly or give a proper presentation you could go unnoticed, get worked up over your fear and leave out vital parts of your presentation. In school you can very easily get a bad grade on a great assignment because you made simple mistakes even if you studied, practiced and know the material well, just because of your fear of public speaking.

How do you break your fear? It is hard for you to break fear, but the most effective way to fight fear is for you just find ways to cope with it and eventually your coping method becomes second nature and than you overcome your fear. As Homer Simpson would say "picture the crowed in their underwear", but its really not always that simple, but here is some ideas to help make it easier.

• Know your material and study it
• Hold your hands together or on your side  and do not move around constantly (just don't play with your fingers or swing around)
• Practice each slide or idea you want to present until you get a sense of how you want it to sound
• Always remember when you do a presentation or speak publicly use this format: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, than remind them of what you told them.
• Know your audience, make sure you present in a way that is effective to your audience
• When giving examples of size or distance put it in terms you can measure. For instance: 200,000 people like chocolate out of 400,000, that would mean that in this room every second person likes chocolate.

Legendary speaker Steve Jobs gives some tips

Watch the video and remember what you read today and I promise you will you will begin to improve your skills and in-turn you will start to get over the fear because you will realize your are much better at public speaking than you thought.

Doing Things for Others

Sometimes the best way to help yourself is simply helping others. Even if you cant give money you can do things to help others which will leave an ever lasting impression on that person and also it is rewarding for you in karma and the feeling you get knowing you truly helped someone.

An Inspiring Story - how you can help others

As you can see the impact of helping others has gone unnoticed. When you give to someone you are doing more than just helping someone out, the impression you leave that person is strong and powerful, you can inspire that person to help someone else, and so on, or you can simply do something small that can change someones mood, day or life.

As you can see the person man who fixed the car has gotten a ton of support, media attention and publicity for his business (which wont always happen). This is an example of how you can be rewarded, but most of the time you will know inside your head and heart you did the right thing, or something unforgettable and the impact can go far beyond the result of your gift.

Heres another inspiring video

Giving your time to others can make a huge change in other peoples life. Volunteering or throwing fundraisers / food drives between your friends, families and co-workers is something you can feel great about and can go very far with putting very little in to it.

Try to give something to someone every week whether it is a smile, compliment, a can of pop, lunch, a dollar to a homeless person, or something like giving your time to a soup kitchen, your deeds do not go unnoticed, you will feel good about yourself and most importantly you will help other people who need a helping hand during a certain circumstance in their life.

Happy Easter!! Best Way to Spend Your Holidays!

By: Fraser M.

As Easter passes and spring starts to come in a great way to lift your spirits is spending the holidays with your family and friends. When you are feeling blue or just alone or anxoius, spending time with your family and friends is the perfect cure. If you cant see your family, try to phone, email write them whatever you can because it always feels good speaking with your family no matter the circumstances.

When you get time to spend with your family you remind yourself of what is important and who is important to you, which in some cases can be motivating or heart warming because family are the only people who will always be there with you until the end.

If you are unable to see your family the holidays, than not to worry because your close friends are the family you get to pick. If you saw your family you should still take the time to see your friends. Take some time to organize an outing or be involved in a friends outing because spending time with your friends is important as well, not to mention you will have a good time and can remember about the people closest to you and forget about your problems.

The most important part of the holidays is friends and family, especially on a holiday like Easter.

Happy Easter everyone and spend time with your family.