You’re in your white house lying down on your water bed, you stomach rumbles you ring the bell beside you and the next thing you know a butler in a suit is delivering you favorite food to your bed. Ever imagined living like this? Well, in this essay the problem it will be talking about is spending too much, and I will also talk about the solution for that. Causes of spending too much is when one wants to fit in with other people and wants to buy all the new things. The effects of this may sometimes depress one for example, one is in a hurry to buy something one really wanted then after receiving it one finds out that it is not the exact thing that he/ she wanted. One of the best ways to solve this problem is to have determination, obedience and I will be also be talking about the 7 day challenge to stop spending a lot.
So you want to stop spending much and start saving more? There are many solutions to this problem but with all of those solutions there are also a lot of temptations to spend the money that you have. Things that will temp you to spend a lot are things like sale, credit cards, and cash in your wallet, most of the things you see. According to banknote.com (2010) by Laura Bruce (2007) it states that you have to find your own weakness in spending money. When you found your weakness that is when the limitations l will start. You have to start with having determination, obedience and a notebook.
This money diet consists of three main steps that will help one reach their goal in saving money. Step one, on the notebook you have to write on the notebook you everyday spending or let’s call them your needs. Examples of needs are food, transportation (if you have no car), load on your phone, allowance etc. when one knows all your spending calculate them and that will be the money one should spend on your calculations. One’s calculations could be daily, weekly, or monthly.
Once one has done step one then you move to step two which is like making allowance for yourself and one is not allowed to spend more than that amount of money. When you do this step be honest and don’t underestimate or overestimate yourself. The allowance that you should give yourself should be reasonable.
After the first two steps one will be ready to test whether or not one can do it. Step three’s objective is to have side money at the end of the day, week or month. If one had to go to the ATM it’s ok, just work on how not to do it next time.
One of my friends has a way of saving money. Students receive allowance daily, weekly or monthly, when one receives their allowance immediately put aside money. The side money should be at least 50% or more of one’s allowance, one is not allowed to spend their side money. So I suggest that you put it in your piggy bank or someplace where it’s hard to get. I put this method in the essay because I have tried it and I am one of the people who benefited from it.
The solution mentioned in this essay has benefited a lot of people. After the 7 day challenge most of the people who tried it were successful according to banknote.com (2010). In the second solution which is according to a close friend of mine, most of the friends who followed this method received 500-1000 baht in a half week, so it is a good way to save money. I suggest that one follows either one of these methods and you will benefit from it, and if the teenagers learn these methods early it would be good for them so they will easily gain money and think before buying so that money would not be wasted.
Bruce, Laura. (2007, May 7). Spending too much? try the 7-day challenge. Retrieved from http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/spending-too-much-try-the-7-day-challenge-1.aspx
Lawrence, Kutner. (2009, march 4). Teenagers and money. Retrieved from http://www.drkutner.com/parenting/articles/money.html
Monday, 27 September 2010
Computer Addiction
According to statistics done by xxms.org - most teenagers spent around 64% of their time on computer. I myself, and most of the people around me are facing this problem unconsciously too. One main cause to this addiction is, just barely spending time playing computer everyday rather than doing other stuffs, after few weeks/months, that person will be addicted. This problem affects our studies, work, and also our health in many ways throughout different people (Havard Mental Health, 1999). By using the correct method, this problem can be solved in servera ways such as, controlling mentally, or according to Dr. Orzack, Behaviour therapy.
Most teenagers spend their time on computer either chatting or playing games, and getting addicted to only one of these could lead to several effects. According to computeraddiction.com (2006) children's grade at school, social life at home, and even falling behind at work are mostly due to computer addictions. Addiction that this "level" are considered high level, and to cure this requires special therapy. Dr. Orzack of Havard university believed that the most effective way is using behaviour therapy. during the process, patient were helped by medication to improve the concentration and know what is more important. after few times of treatment, the patient should be able to control themselves later on in the future.
Physical and psychological symptoms could also occur due to computer addiction. starting off, one will face psychological problems first; feeling empty, depressed, irritable when one is not on computer. people could also neglect family or friends which could affect your social life, and of course, inability to stop. Following by is physical problems, by after playing computer too long, one will experience dry eyes, back aches, migraine, insomnias, or even eating irregularities which could heavily effect one's health. According to Clinical Psychiatry News ( 1997), all of these problems could be solved psychologically. Ways such as letting the patients know what is going on outside, and letting them do other things rather than computer. After few weeks of doing this, the patient should be able to resist the addiction successfully.
Most teenagers that noticed themselves falling to computer addictions had tired to resist them by just barely controlling the eagerness, as result, they failed. Professionals said that you should do other things too, rather than just barely controlling it. By doing all of the ways above shall help you get rid, or at least decrease the addiction to computer. This will help one to spend more time with friends/family, concentrate on work, and also lessen the academical problems in the future. Rather than spending the whole teenage life on computer learning nothing, use the correct way to cure this addiction easily, and help you in both your inside health and outside.
Sources:
Computer Addiction. www.computeraddiction.com(2004)
Found on September 19, 2010
Dr. Orzack. Havard Mental letter (Jan, 1997)
Found on September 19, 2010
Addiction Statistics. www.xxmms.org/computer_statistics_addiction.html
(2008). found on September 20, 2010.
Most teenagers spend their time on computer either chatting or playing games, and getting addicted to only one of these could lead to several effects. According to computeraddiction.com (2006) children's grade at school, social life at home, and even falling behind at work are mostly due to computer addictions. Addiction that this "level" are considered high level, and to cure this requires special therapy. Dr. Orzack of Havard university believed that the most effective way is using behaviour therapy. during the process, patient were helped by medication to improve the concentration and know what is more important. after few times of treatment, the patient should be able to control themselves later on in the future.
Physical and psychological symptoms could also occur due to computer addiction. starting off, one will face psychological problems first; feeling empty, depressed, irritable when one is not on computer. people could also neglect family or friends which could affect your social life, and of course, inability to stop. Following by is physical problems, by after playing computer too long, one will experience dry eyes, back aches, migraine, insomnias, or even eating irregularities which could heavily effect one's health. According to Clinical Psychiatry News ( 1997), all of these problems could be solved psychologically. Ways such as letting the patients know what is going on outside, and letting them do other things rather than computer. After few weeks of doing this, the patient should be able to resist the addiction successfully.
Most teenagers that noticed themselves falling to computer addictions had tired to resist them by just barely controlling the eagerness, as result, they failed. Professionals said that you should do other things too, rather than just barely controlling it. By doing all of the ways above shall help you get rid, or at least decrease the addiction to computer. This will help one to spend more time with friends/family, concentrate on work, and also lessen the academical problems in the future. Rather than spending the whole teenage life on computer learning nothing, use the correct way to cure this addiction easily, and help you in both your inside health and outside.
Sources:
Computer Addiction. www.computeraddiction.com(2004)
Found on September 19, 2010
Dr. Orzack. Havard Mental letter (Jan, 1997)
Found on September 19, 2010
Addiction Statistics. www.xxmms.org/computer_statistics_addiction.html
(2008). found on September 20, 2010.
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Dealing with heartaches
Do you ever have hard times figuring out what in the world had happened after your girlfriend or boyfriend broke up with you? Most teenagers nowadays have problem on their love, mostly being dumped, and the big, big reason is the relationship is not working, there are effects on this it is that they can’t continue or concentrate on the activities that are going around them. This essay will gives ways to deal with break up such as, cut off contact, let it out, stay busy, stay single, and getting help.
According to love-session.com (2006, love-session) two of the big main reasons of breaking up is “The relationship is not working well” and “I want to be independent”. These are two reasons why teenagers broke up because each and everyone has their own world and thinking but they are not talking together and then “I think I want to be single”, then breaking up is the only solution at then. Another reason is stay alone is more free, Everyone can do anything they wish to, don’t have to care for another person, just to do in what he or she wants.
What comes after being dumped is heartaches, can’t concentrate on anything, try to forget him or her but it is very hard, the memories are stick in the brain. Here comes solution to these and other more problems. One solution that I tried and it works is cutting off contact, well cutting off contacts will make anyone who do a severe pain in the heart, but the truth is that one will realize that chances of getting back together is no more that is the end of the story. This will help one in long term, believe me.
Another solution to heartbroken is suggested from e how.com (2009, e.how) is that to let everything in that pain out. If you want to cry, then cry like waterfall. If you want to yell, then yell as loud as you can. By this way it will help the one who is having a severe pain to heal that pain faster because if one is crying until having no more tears to cry by then one, will feel much better because letting everything out.
One more bad solution that is not worthy to so is committed to suicide, before thinking to suicide think first does that person really worth for your life, think of one parents will they be proud or will they be happy to see their own child suicide because of love. If one is thinking of this it means that one is stupid to throw the life for just a guy or a girl that did not even love them. After following my advice one will be better for hundred percent I guaranteed that. Believe me those two solutions above me will give you the results that you’ll never regret.
Bibliography :
e how. (2008), How to deal with you heart broken from
http://www.ehow.com/way_53170993_do-youre-heartbroken.html,
Retrieved on September 21,2010
Love-session.com (no date), Relationship and Love Desire from
http://www.love-session.com/why_break_up.htm,
Retrieved on September 22, 2010
console gaming addiction
“I completed the level!” that’s probably the first thing that teenagers say when they meet. Console gaming is considered as the main source of entertainment for youths. Being higly entertaining because of inch-perfect graphics and interesting story-line or gameplay, teenagers, especially boys, get hooked into it for hours everyday. This form of console gaming is highly addictive which affects their health, studies and their entire social life and the best solution might be self-realisation and find something else to do other than games.
Technology has been advancing everyday. Previously movies were probably considered the best entertainment source, if it was about virtual world where they have fictious characters, but games are the next generation entertainment where you can control your very own “virtual” character. This makes it very addictive and causes many problems. Due to this gamers start skipping meals. They might start stealing. Studies have proved that 2 hours of gaming is equal to taking 1 drag of cocain . they show tendency of neglecting their family and friends which affects their entire social life. as far as i know self-realization is the best possible- solution. according to http://www.howtogetridofstuffs.com/ (25th 2008) kids nowadays dont follow the elders. gamers must realize how much time they have been spending in games which affects their social behaviour like, makes them violent, etc, says serendipupdate, 2008. too much gaming causes students to be obese (ezinearticles.com). lying down with a pack of chips and a controller in hand certainly puts of weight on the player. exercing could help a lot. and by exercising it doesnt mean literally exercising. it just means doing some physical activity that the person likes - could be sports, dancing, etc. this way they will have physical exercise which helps to develop their social character as well. too much gaming is bad for eyes as well (as we all know) if gamers do want to play it would be best if they played in intervals. parents seem to be concerned on controlling their children to play games. they fix the time rate where they can play. but this isnt proving to be uselfull and it doesnt seem to be working.
gaming market is really large nowadays. every year high quality E3 games are produced which makes gamers hooked onto them for hours. this has been a concern for their parents. so they try to control their children, which hasnt been working. instead, this makes them agressive and their relation with the parents worsen. the best possible solution could be "self-realisation". being the best, it is also the hardest. gamers should realize how much they are spending, both money and time, how they are harming their physical health, how games are affecting their studies and their social relations. it they realise it properly, they might feel disgusted and i am certain that even thought they might not stop completely, they will definitely decrease the amount of gaming time.
how to get rid of gaming addictions. (2008, june 7). Retrieved from http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/
Gaming and obese. (2007, december 18). Retrieved from www.onlinearticles.com
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