Show your support to the world and use this page as a guide to help your achievements. With a little effort, you can help make this world a better place for everyone – teens, adults, youth, and yourself.

1. Be yourself and don’t worry about what other people think of you. Worry more about what you think of yourself, because that is what’s most important.

2. Don’t fall into peer pressure. You could save a life, as well as the lives of your friends if you learn to just say, “No”. No matter how tempting someone may make alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, or another dangerous substance or situation, sound, don’t do it.
3. Stop gossip when it starts. If someone gossips about you or someone you know, ignore it. If you don’t pay attention to the rumors and gossip, no one else will either. If someone tells you a rumor, keep it to yourself.

4. Don’t pay any attention to what the media portrays teens to look, talk, act, and walk like; they are exploiting teens and trying to set high standards that they believe teens should be portrayed as, which is morally wrong. Help stop the media’s portrayal on teens by ignoring what people look like on magazine covers, on television, or on movies. Be happy with who you are; you were made to be unique. If everyone talked, walked, looked, or acted the same, we would live in a dull, boring world.

5. Don’t harm living beings of any kind. By this we mean do not bully, cause violence, threaten, harm, rape, or worse, murder any living beings, which include humans, plants, and animals. We were all put here for a reason, and we all have the right to live in peace.

6. Eat healthy and exercise. A large portion of teens world-wide are obese and have medical problems leading to obesity as well. We need to stay healthy and active so that we can live better, healthier lives. Try to exercise at least 30 minutes a day, don’t eat out very often, and try your best to eat healthy foods. Ask your local fitness center if they can start a special program for teens that involves fun activities so that more teens would be able to get involved and have fun. We need to help our fellow teens stay healthy and active.

7. Volunteer. You can volunteer at homeless shelters, food banks, environmental organizations, wildlife preserves, state parks, Ronald McDonald houses, the Special Olympics, hospitals, schools, libraries, animal shelters, churches, the United Way, Salvation Army, Red Cross, food, toy, or clothes drives, creating websites for charities and organizations, .etc. For more info on ways to volunteer, please go here: http://www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/volunteer.htm or http://www.volunteermatch.org

8. Pay it forward. A small amount of kindness can pay off and start friendships. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar, so try being nice for a change to one of your enemies at school. They’ll surely be surprised, and most likely will return the favor. Do favors for people without them asking, whether it be your friends, family, relatives, teachers, .etc. The next time you’re in trouble, they’ll repay the kindness that you showed them.

9. Be politically active. Even if you can’t vote, it’s a very serious matter to be active in your country’s politics. Send letters to your governor or city official about petitioning. Petition certain laws that are being run by Congress that you think will benefit the country. You can make a stand and help your country’s government, as well as yourself, to be the perfect citizen.

10. Stay in school. Education is the most important part of your life. If you stay in school, you can get a good career, like a medical doctor, a lawyer, a psychologist, .etc, rather than being stuck for the rest of your life asking, “Would you like fries with that?”. It’s very important that you get a good education so that you can help support your family and have a good, healthy life.