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Volunteer For Free Anywhere In The World

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There are so many company’s online who charge an absolute fortune, not including flights, to volunteer across the world and so few people who know that you can volunteer for free.

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You don’t have to do that. There are also companies like WWOOF and Workaway that list hosts around the world looking for volunteers for a small annual fee and that’s all you pay.

I have used both WWOOF and Workaway, the former to volunteer on an organic vineyard in southern Western Australia and the latter to volunteer at the guest farm I spent three months at last year in South Africa.

I am using Workaway again to volunteer at three different places in Western Australia this year.

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If you’re just coming out of high school, I highly recommend going to volunteer. You will learn so much about yourself and the world and grow in a positive way. You will learn new skills and may even discover your passion or realise that what you thought you wanted isn’t in the end.

If you’re at a cross roads in your life and you don’t know what to do with yourself except that you need to break out of your current funk, go volunteering! I’ve now volunteered in Thailand, Western Australia and South Africa.

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If you are spending an extended period of time in a new country, volunteer, you get to learn the language and the culture much better than just wondering around like a tourist. You learn the best places to eat and shop and because you’ve learned their every day language, you are better respected when you go to restaurants and shops. All countries love it when you make an effort to understand and integrate their culture.

If you want a new career, volunteer. You get hands on learning for free and may even pick up a job while you at it, or at least develop a useful network of contacts in your future career. It also looks good on your CV or student application.

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Volunteering is the perfect way to grow as a person and learn new skills, not to mention make some lifelong friends and memories.

How To Stop Hating Yourself

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You are whatever you say you are, so why not choose something else to be? Something better?

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No one is going to tell you that you are good enough, you have to decide that for yourself, even when other people are trying to tell you otherwise because they are jealous of your self confidence.

Life only happens for people who choose to be confident.

You can be amazing, you only have to decide that you are.  You can show the world your talents, you only have to decide that you are good enough.

The only thing you should hate yourself about is that you listened to the lies being told in advertising and media telling you in ever subliminal ways that you aren’t good enough so that they can sell their products to you.

Step out of the lie and choose to see the real you.

Choose to ignore things that don’t make you feel good. Stop reading beauty magazines and obsessing about your weight or what guys want. Neither of these things matter and both go hand in hand.

If you are confident, meaning if you like yourself, at whatever weight, guys will like you because the most attractive thing about anyone is that they like themselves and feel like the deserve a place in the world.

I see far too much self loathing going on with teenagers on Tumblr and it’s really upsetting. Looking at a picture of someone else and then hating yourself because you don’t look like them is absurd and disrespectful to the being that you are. Learn to look at yourself and find ways to like what you see without the tinted glasses of media and advertising.

Unless you are born a 5’8 skinny girl with a pretty face, you will never look like a super model, so give it up. Just be the best you can be.  That means eating right and finding a type of exercise that you really fall in love with, like surfing, or dancing, something that makes you stronger, challenges you and that you can progress in while you are having fun.

It boils down to having fun. If you don’t enjoy being you, life will always suck. It’s not cool to hate yourself, no one wants to hate themselves but everyone does it these days that now it seems strange if anyone ever feels confident. You decide.

If you have a family that treats you like crap, ignore them as much as you can until you can leave. It’s unfair and unfortunate but you don’t have to listen. My father was extremely violent and verbally abusive and threatened to shoot us in our sleep and look how I turned out. Yes I’m a bit crazy, but I’m stronger for it and I can write stuff like this because I learned to survive and I’m working on thriving.

Gratitude fixes everything.

Every time you start to think bad thoughts about yourself, cover them up with ten things to be grateful for until you cant remember what it was you were trying to think of in the first place. Trust me, you can think of a lot of things to be grateful. See one charity advert about starving kids in Africa and there are ten things right there you can be grateful for.  Eventually you get really good at realizing just how easy you have it and you start wondering how you ever got off hating yourself and feeling bad about your life when you are so blessed.  Write it down if you have to.

The world needs you to be strong and confident.

If you didn’t spend all the time hating yourself, you could be discovering new cures for things, or inventing things, or stumbling onto something that could change the world. You are not here for no reason, you are an entire human body and more of potential, stop wasting that by obsessing about your fake idea of what you are and actually discover what you are truly capable of.

Your thoughts create your reality. Change your mind, change your life.