Being so young your life is a world win but I learned how to love myself first and find my happiness with telling my self these few things...

1. Garbage in, garbage out

I read about this saying in a book called “LIVE original” by Sadie Robertson and at first I did not understand it at all until I started utilizing it in my everyday life. When people say things that are negative or that bring worry to your life say "Garbage in, garbage out" inside your head and I promise that it works. Whatever that person is saying to you wont bring you happiness so just take it out as it comes in. You also have to analyze what is in your everyday life, if it is not something that will benefit you in a few years, or if its even a friend you’re not sure you should have tell yourself is it worth it? If not, GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT, you need you cleanse your everyday life in order to be a happier you and in order to life a life of valor and strength.

2. Read a Psalm a day and really understand the meaning.

When I was going through a hard time I turned to reading Psalms a lot. I would honestly Google my feeling and then add the word psalm to it and that really helped me meditate and feel genuinely happy. For example I would search “Psalms about not being nervous” or “Psalms about love” and there would be an abundance of things that would help me. Now a days, I'll pick one Psalm a day and really dive deep into it and figure out what it means and how it correlates to my feelings and how I can better myself with it. God is really good and everything he preaches can also help your daily life.

3. Planning out my future and setting a goal.

Sometimes one has no motivation at all and you find yourself in a slump, and something that really helped me was planning out my ideal future and having a goal or dream that I hope to reach one day. For example, I hope to one day move out of the state and start fresh but what pushes me is working hard in school and having a positive outlook on life so that I can reach that goal one day. Whenever I’m feeling down, I look at that goal and tell myself that the struggles that may come my way are not to hurt me but to push me harder to get to that dream or goal.

4. Writing in a journal every day.

I started to do this about 2 ½ years ago and it is something I will continue to do everyday. I don’t keep my journal private at all if my mom or friends want to for some reason snoop around I let them. My journal is my story it’s filled with adventures, sadness, happiness, struggles and achievements. Every single page in my journal shows who I am now, who I was before, and how I have matured over the years. It is so satisfying to sometimes turn to pages where I was going through ‘heartbreak’ or loosing someone close to me and seeing how much I’ve grown now.

I know I might be really young but the person that I am today is someone I am really proud of and I can really say I have come along way and have been able to help so many of my friends find their happiness again. Sometimes one goes through so many emotional stages but really your happiness comes from within yourself and if you don’t learn to help yourself first then no one else will be able to help you in the future.