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5 Tips on Learning to Embrace ‘The Wait’
In the corporate world, one indicator of success is when a project is able to deliver its goals efficiently. Indeed, technology has provided us with almost anything and everything within a click of a button, hence instant gratification continues to be a growing...
Break Out of Your Comfort Zone: 5 Tips to Maximise Your Growth
For many of us, at the first sign of danger, our natural tendency is to do what we can to protect ourselves from harm and discomfort. This same tendency also happens to be the force that holds us back from the unfamiliar, urging us to stick with what is deemed safe....
4 Ways to Build Empowering Self Beliefs
Why is it important to have positive beliefs about ourselves? Our beliefs are the lens through which we experience the world around us, dictating our judgment, decisions, and even emotions. When we cultivate empowering self beliefs and are aware of our own worth and...
3 Ways to Find Your ‘Why’
When we want to improve our lives, it is easy to go around asking our friends and relatives for advice, or resort to the internet. However, while a lot of these could be helpful as we work towards taking concrete action, it's usually not long until we begin to wonder...
What Happens When We Face Fear?
“To do or not to do?” Our minds tell us no, that we might mess up, that we might disappoint, and that it is just too risky - we are fearful. The prospect of failure in the face of uncertainty gives us a reason to hold back, and so we let our fears consume us as we...
The Only Failure in Life
Undoubtedly, failing is not a very pleasurable experience. More often than not, it leaves us feeling uncomfortable and discouraged, and is oftentimes the force that holds us back when presented with an opportunity that entails trying something new and unfamiliar....
The 4 Levels of Learning
Before we learn something new, we often do not realise how much we do not know and are yet to learn. At times, when we begin to learn, we discover the gravity of what we do not know and get overwhelmed by its difficulty, which may leave us feeling disheartened....
Control Your Emotions So Your Emotions Don’t Control You
Let’s face it: there are lots of sources of negative emotions, especially at present - global crises, hate crimes, and the endless stream of seemingly harmless social media content that, without our own knowledge, takes a toll on the way we feel. Our emotions are...
Living Room Learning… A Huge Success
Well… what a crazy rollercoaster the last few months have been for everyone. I can certainly say for us, as a business who rely on being able to have over 100 people in a room together, we have certainly seen our share of highs and lows since March. When our first...
How To Raise Entrepreneurial Teens
We are entering a world in which the foundations of businesses are no longer built from bricks, mortar and hard work. But rather out of the box thinking combined with a heavy online influence. Teenagers are raised by the internet just as much as the schooling system....
The Importance of Setting SMART goals
At Empower U, we teach participants the process and benefits of setting SMART goals. Setting goals is a recipe for fulfilling many ambitions you want to undertake in your lifetime. S.M.A.R.T Goals - How do you do it?SMART goals is an acronym, providing you with a well...
Top 5 Books for Teenagers to Read on Financial Education
For many young people, gaining the knowledge to take action to build a financially free future for themselves can sometimes seem overwhelming or like they aren’t ready for it. But the fact is that he sooner teenagers and young adults can start building that knowledge,...
Top 3 Ways To Help Teenagers Manage Their Emotions
For every single one of us, learning to manage our emotions is vital to almost everything we do, whether it’s school, work, relationships, sports, or anything else we choose to devote our time to. So how do we learn to manage and deal with our emotions and thoughts?...
Top 5 Tips for Parents to Teach Teenagers Resilience
In today’s day and age, we see so many parents who struggle to get their teenagers to commit to things they’re required to do… be it school work, household chores, or even doing things that are outside their comfort zones, such as being in big groups, or talking...
A Massive Start To 2019… And How Your Teenager Can Be Part Of It!
Well it’s been over a week now since we kicked off our first Empower U Program for 2019, and it was MASSIVE! We had over 100 participants in attendance and even had to close enrolments weeks early due to the limited venue capacity. As I’m sure you can imagine, having...
Launching into 2019 with the 5-Day Camp
Well it’s now been a week since we finished our January 2019 5-Day Camp. This is the most advanced event we run and is only open to graduates of the Empower U weekend program. This was the 19th Camp in Tomorrow’s Youth’s History, and was one of the most challenging...
Mind Matters
Since our inception in October 2001, our aim as an organisation has always been to fill in the gaps in young people’s education to equip them with the best tools and strategies for success which are not always focused on in schools. Almost two decades later, I am...
A Parent’s Thoughts…
Oftentimes, parents struggle to get their teenagers along to Empower U, and in some cases, simply won’t send their children because they refuse to go because they might have a negative perception of the program, or have weekend sport etc. Here’s the thing... most...
Social Media, Technology and Frogs
In the 1980’s Steve Jobs said that he wanted the computer (and subsequently the phone) to be an extension of the person. Fast forward to 2018, and it’s clear that Job’s vision has come to fruition. It has been 10 years since the first iPhone was released in 2008, and...
How Anxiety Has Slowly Crept Up On Us
A few weeks ago, I did a interview on the Mike Goldman show about Empower U and the changes I’ve seen in teenagers over my years of running the program. While many of the issues that young people face have remained the same in the last 17 years, there has been one...
