7 habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

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Habit 7: Sharpen the saw

3) Heart: Always do what is right so that your heart, your conscience, will feel peaceful. When you do wrong, your conscience will prick you and create regretful sensations within your heart. When you do what you honestly feel, you won’t have any regrets. Your heart is your internal compass—it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives you directions, even true north, your personal compass, your heat, will point you in the true north, the exact direction and path you need to trod.

4) Soul: Study scriptures and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your spirit needs spiritual food just like you physical body needs temporal food to survive. Pondering, meditating, and reflecting are excellent Soul shaping activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions in a dairy or journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

Get into the habit of daily improving your body (physical fitness), our mind, your heart, and your soul.

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7 habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Part 1

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw

Teens should never get too busy living to take time to renew themselves. When teens “sharpen the saw” they are keeping their personal self sharp so that they van better deal with life. It means regular renewal and strengthening the four key dimensions of the body, mind, heart, and soul.

1)      Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegetables, and legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, and tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Get plenty of rest at night. Get to bed early at night and get up early each morning. “Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

2)      Mind. Think positively. Read. Study. Think. Analyze. Seek to read a good book each month. Then each week. Ask intelligent questions. Observe. Develop your mind through positive “self talk

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Habit 6: Synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than they could alone. Through this habit, teens learn it doesn't have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergy allows teen to value differences and to better appreciate others. Synergy is the reward. The delicious fruit you will taste as you get better at living the other habits, especially at thinking win-win and seeking first to understand. Learning to synergize is like learning to form v formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you’ll go. Synergy doesn't just happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is: Learn to celebrate differences.

A good band is a great example of synergy. It’s not just the drums, or the guitar, or the sax, or the vocalist, its all of them together that make up the “sound”. Each band member brings his or her own strengths to the table to create something better than they each could alone. No instrument is more important than another, just different.

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Habit 5

5. Seek first to understand, and then to be understood because most people don’t listen very well. One of the great frustrations in life is than many don’t feel understood. This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active listening.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart isto be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are – a unique, one-of-a-kind, never to be cloned individual. People won’t expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine liove and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than they want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and would rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

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7 habits of highly Successful Teens

Habits 2

Habit 2: Begin with the end in Mind

If teens aren’t clear about where they want to end up in life, about their values, goals, and what they stand for, they will wander, waste time, and be tossed to and fro by the opinions of others. Help your teen create a personal mission or statement which will act as a road map and direct guide to his decision-making prizes

“Keep your eyes on the prize”. Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized the achievement of your prize. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Begin with the achieving of your prize in mind. Visualize and then realize. Start by having a target in mind; know where you are going.

One prize or goal you definitely need to establish for yourself is the prize of an honorable graduation from high school- that you will receive your diploma honestly and with integrity—that you earned it with perfect honesty.

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7 habits of highly Successful Teens

Habit 1

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility for his/her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own happiness or unhappiness. They don’t blame others for their actions or feelings. Proactive people realize that the ball is in their court, that they are the captain of their own ship that they are in control, control of their decisions, thought, choices, goals, actions, and priorities. Proactive people are self-starters, they don’t wait to be told what to do, and they press forward with enthusiasm toward the achievement of their assignment, their duties, their responsibilities, and their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive decision. Obey the rules. Obey the law. obey the coach. Obey the school policies. Obey your parents. Obey with exactness, and great things will come to you. Be proactive and take the initiative.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

For teens, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn’t any walk in the park, either. , The 7 habits of highly effective teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide “a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily.

How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? success or lack of thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life changing decisions.

While it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives,” teens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say”, Covey says. So practice what you preach. Your examples can be very influential.

Covey himself has done well by following a parent example. His dad, Stephen Covey, wrote the book & habits of highly Successful people, which sold over 15 million copies. Sean’s a chip off the old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in more than a respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his even habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them

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