The Five Principles of Youthemia
More than just a coaching company, Youthemia is an idea, a way of living, a principle, born out of the obvious challenges that today's young people are struggling to make sense of.
The Five principles are a response, an antidote if you like, to the chaos our modern culture is creating in the brains and behaviours of our youth.
By following these five principles, the hope is that they, and all future generations, will actually stand a chance of retaining what it really means to be human.
- develop an awareness of who you really are.
- undo societal/parental/familial/cultural programming and conditioning.
- identify your unique gifts and talents.
- look at your analytical skills and capacity to learn. How do you learn best?
- discover keys to self-mastery in any situation.
- understand your unlimited potential.
- determine your own personal values.
- create a rewarding and fulfilling vision for your short and medium-term future.
- understand goal-setting.
- identify your unique contribution to the world.
- ask ‘what do I have to offer?’/’what can I give?’
1. Your Inner World
- choose your own influences.
- what you give out you get back.
- understand brainwashing.
- respect for yourself and others.
- get wise and wake up.
- ask ‘what is really going on in my environment?’
- understand commercialism, consumerism and the material world.
- social media.
- gaming.
- screen time.
- lifestyle choices; exercise, getting into nature.
- parental pressure.
- peer pressure.
2. Your External World (The Dome)
- understand the importance of fun and freedom.
- idea generation.
- inspiration.
- innovation.
- imagination.
- doing things differently (even within the prescribed ‘system’).
3. Creativity and Innovation
- understand income and expenditure.
- develop a saving habit.
- how to create multiple income streams.
- passive and active income.
- long-term investment.
- job vs vocation.
- talent vs passion.
- tax.
- the flow of money.
- giving to others.
4. Money and Finances
- understand what it means to truly love yourself.
- develop self-soothing habits.
- treat yourself kindly.
- cultivate a healthy inner-voice.
- become emotionally independent.
- cultivate a self-compassion practice in your daily life.
5. Self-Compassion
The backbone of each of these five areas are two key themes, knowledge and wisdom and action.
Your life is a gift. What are you going to do with it? You need to get smart to move forward. How do you get smart? Through knowledge and wisdom. How to you move forward? Through action. In each of these areas we will ask the key questions: how is this adding to my knowledge and wisdom? What action can I take to move forward? This is how we grow.