One important thing I’ve learnt throughout my entire 14-year life, is the importance of friends and friendship.

When you’re down, your friends should be the first people asking you if you’re okay and listening to you rant about your problems.

When you’re at your best, they should be the ones cheering you on from the sidelines, making fun of you in any blank moment.

They should make you laugh, make you smile, push you, inspire you, and teach you something new every single day.

For Gen Z specifically, over the past few years, we have become so knowledgeable and motivated to change the previous generations' ways, in order to make a better world for our children, and their children to follow.

Everything we do in our day-to-day lives impacts the environment, often for worse rather than better. Today, I’ll be talking about ‘17 Ways To Be More Sustainable’ throughout our everyday lives, in order to look after and preserve our planet.

Students are often the most common victims of stress. Factors such as family problems, friendships, relationships, school work, assignments and social media are just some of the many stressors that students experience.

In the age of social media and technology, the world has seen a dramatic increase in mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD and other disorders often characterised by stress.

We all know that we need to stay hydrated. It is something told to use by every parent, teacher and friend. But despite how important it is to drink water, we all seem to ignore it.

In our everyday lives, there are many reasons why people don’t drink as much water as they’re supposed to. You may be busy? You may hate the taste of water? You may hate the taste or prefer an energy drink or coffee instead? You may hate the idea of being on the toilet all day.

Whatever it may be, I get it. But that doesn’t remove the fact that water is SUCH a needed part of life and growing, especially as teenagers!

While reading just isn’t for everyone, It is such a great skill to have in high school and in life!

Reading teaches you so many literary skills, and boosts your creativity and writing in so many ways! And with so many aspects of school surrounding reading and writing, there is purely no harm in giving it another try!

Hopefully these tips are useful and will help you become the bookworm you're destined to be!

As the years fly by, many of us dream of the lives we wish to live. Fame, money, success, happiness; all things many of us aspire to ultimately achieve in life.

But let me ask you; why do we all wait for the ‘right time’ to start?!

Today is your day! And this year is your year! To claim and create all of those goals and dreams into your reality! It is up to you to mold your future!

It’s Saturday night and the clock is ticking. As the minute hand makes its way closer and closer to the 12am deadline, you work furiously in an attempt to get your assignment done.

“Why did I leave it to the last minute?!” You exclaim, “How did this happen!?”

Does this sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone!

Life is short; It’s something we don’t realise until there's not much left of it.

As the days, weeks, months and years fly by, many of us easily get caught up in the excitement of day to day life, and forget to stop and show appreciation for each moment they have been given.

Do you ever feel like your to-do list for the day is getting longer and longer while the hours are becoming shorter and shorter?

With our busy lives as teenagers and young adults, balancing our work, school, social and home life can be a real struggle.

This makes you think; there MUST be other ways to be more productive!

In the 21st century, in our world of social media, we are constantly surrounded by unrealistic body expectations and lifestyle expectations, as well as forced to put up with so much negativity, judgement and nit-picking in society.

Every day, without even knowing it, our body engages in hundreds of actions that we call habits. These habits affect our work, health and lifestyle, sometimes for the worse. Do you have a bad habit that you want to stop? If you do, you’re in the right place. 

As humans, we all experience stress. Whether it’s about your hair for a party or studying for an exam, we all, especially teenagers, experience it. Stress is our automatic reaction to a situation where we feel threatened or anxious. But how do we deal with stress? Though it’s an easy question, many struggle to answer it.