Live With Purpose

It’s difficult to be a girl in the 2020s…

You’re living in two demanding worlds: the real world and the online world. The pressure builds quickly between dealing with school, activities, sports, and even your home life. Never mind the complexity of relationships—both friendships and romantic.

Underneath all the pressure, you have dreams and hopes for your future. You’re on a journey to become a strong, independent woman willing to work for a meaningful life. To get there, you’ll have to make countless decisions. Many of the choices made during this time will affect you for years to come, both in positive and difficult ways.

From understanding the importance of choosing who you surround yourself with and how you think about yourself and your body, to if you should send a nude or deciding when to start having sex, these choices can change your life.

Your journey to a successful, fulfilled, and purposeful life begins with making a commitment to learn how to choose the right things. Sometimes you might fail, but every day you get the opportunity for a new beginning.

Inside this magazine, you’ll find facts and tools to help you make good choices. For example, have you ever heard of the Success Sequence?

Probably not. According to the Brookings Institute, you’ll have only a 3% chance of living in poverty if you earn at least a high school diploma, maintain a full-time job, and wait until marriage to have children. This means a 97% chance of living free from poverty.1

Sources: 1 Haskins, Ron, and Isabel V. Sawhill. Creating an Opportunity Society. Brookings Institution Press, 2009.