[True Self]: New Year, Better You

From TrulyBeautifulOnline.com

Every year, when the glimmering crystal ball drops at the stroke of midnight, we all tell ourselves that we will finally live our lives the way we really want to - on our own terms. Many people resolve to do all of the things they wanted to do and didn't get a chance to, such as skydiving, going on a road trip or reading the Bible from cover to cover (my resolution for the past 5 years and counting). People also resolve to spend more time with loved ones, make bold career moves and get in shape. However, despite our amazing intentions on January 1st, do we ever really stick to our goals and resolutions?

www.43things.com is a really neat Web site that I found that makes it a little bit easier to hang tough with your goals, with a healthy mix of peer pressure, positive thinking and self fulfilling prophecy. All you have to do is sign up to join the community of fellow goal-setters and make a list of your goals. From there, you can write journal entries about your progress, update your list and view the goals and resolutions of thousands of people across the world! How cool is that?

I started my own page and hopefully I will have much more success in meeting my goals from 2008 than in previous years. I hope that you find it helpful too.

Here are some other tips to make it easier to achieve your New Year's resolutions:

• Set measurable goals (i.e. "I want to lose ten pounds in 6 months")
• Make sure that you have a plan for goals that are harder to achieve, such as getting into grad school. Do your research on schools, buy a book or sign up for a Kaplan course and work hard. Setting the goal is just the first step.
• Find people you know who also have the same goals. Hitting the gym together or studying at the library with company will make your goals seem more achievable.
  

I wish everyone only the best in 2008. It is a new year brimming with all the potential in the world. It's your job to make it happen!

Truly Beautiful Author: New sKoolBoY Partner

We are excited to introduce you to a new sKoolBoY Partner and new author to the sKoolBoY Blogger who will make posts periodically on the blog. Her name is Alysia Powell and she writes a blog called Truly Beautiful, a great blog that tries to help women find their inner and outer beauty.

Truly Beautiful

If you would like to contact her, her email is alysia@trulybeautiful.com.

Playboy Mansion for College Students

Yes, but not exactly. This site is for the guys out there and girls. Guys for obvious reasons and girls who feel they are the hottest girl on their campus. Rep your Campus!

The Valuable Four

Having a relationship involves team work between you and your partner. I feel there is four things you should follow in a serious relationship and they are COMMUNICATION, HONESTY, TRUST, COMMITMENT. I believe those four things are very important to having a strong relationship. Also, knowing that having these valuable things in your relationship losing one could weaken the others. For instance, say that you are in a strong relationship that has lasted for about 9 months and there hasn't been any serious problems during that time you were together. Then all of a sudden you find out your partner is cheating on you and you have all the evidence to prove it too. So out of the four key things I believe a relationship works off of two are broken and they are trust and commitment. Trust is broken because all that time you thought your partner was faithful now you can't trust that he/she is anymore. Commitment is broken because your partner supposedly cheated on you disrespecting the commitment you guys had. As result if you think about it half of the bridge you guys made in your relationship is broken now and will be difficult and challenging to rebuild. So just keep in mind having a relationship takes two not one and breaking any of the key "four" harms your potential for a long lasting relationship.

Don't Go to Class Ever Again?!

Did you oversleep again? Yep. Well, no worries. Post your notes to friends or classmates taking that class on isleptthroughclass.com. Watch the promotional video, silly but funny. You will start singing along.

Top 5 Reasons to Stop Switching Your Major

(Picture from Total Recall~)

What is the right major for you? It may be in Business, Science Major, Math Major, whatever. You just need to pick one and stick with it.

Here are 5 reasons why you need to stick with just one:

1. Once you switch your major once, you are likely to do it again and then it becomes a habit. Before you know it, you are on your 4th major?! and you are graduating 2 years later. Not good! Stick with 1.

2. Just Because you are in that major does not mean you will be taking only classes in that major. You will always be able to take other classes that you are more interested in as electives so stick with 1 major instead of Jumping AROUND all over the campus major board.

3. Ok, let's say you are a Biology major (Snooze...). You hate reading and want to switch to English. This major is easier but now you have to take a million writing classes and that means writing several papers for different classes and you are reading even MORE. That is time consuming and you are giving yourself more work. That was one example but the point is that switching does not always make the SUFFERING go away.

4. You might be switching into a major that a MILLION other students are switching into as well. That means when you graduate and are looking for a job, you and 50 million other students JUST LIKE YOU have the same qualifications and that makes you just another Job Seeker.

5. Let's say you hate your major with a passion, you switch it to something more to your liking. But then you realize that the major you thought you liked, you do not like as much. You just wasted a year or two of your college years, money, and life just because you did not like your major with a PASSION. In most cases, but not all, You will never like all aspects of your major or career, but you need to find something about the major that you like and use that motivation to stick with it.

When your Major is Sucking, Stick With It~

Future Partners

As part of the new changes coming to the website, sKoolBoY is trying to partner with other websites that provide valuable services to college students. The websites so far include Snagajob.com (finding part-time jobs), WyzAnt (provides a list of tutors in your area ranging from Science to Test Prep), Myapartmentmap.com (search for available apartments in your area), CollegeGrad.com (Internships, jobs, and more), and ScholarshipExperts (excellent service for finding scholarships). These websites and more will be integrated into the website to provide additional support for college students and other users on our site who will find these services very valuable.