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6 Ways to Try Smarter Goals in 2018

12/30/2017

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Elizabeth Z. || Peer Leader || Illinois, USA
​As we ring in the New Year, resolutions and chatter of self-improvement take center-stage. People often say things like “new year, new me,” and make promises to eat better, exercise more, read more, and make an overall effort to try harder. Often times, these resolutions quickly dissolve and lead to guilt or disappointment.
 
Although trying harder may intuitively make sense, what we need isn’t to try harder; we need to try smarter.

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Learning to Love Myself

12/25/2017

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Afua B. || Peer Leader || Accra, Ghana
For a really long time, if anyone would ask me what I loved about myself, I’d always say “nothing”. Growing up, I felt like I didn’t belong and that I was worthless. Academically, I usually performed fine. But even with that, I felt inferior. For most of my childhood, I was called a boy because I cut all of my hair and looked so much like my dad. One time, while I was out with my mum, I went to use the washroom and a girl said to me, “What are you doing in the girls’ washroom. Bad boy!”.

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