When The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens was first assigned, I was unsure whether or not this book would provide any help in improving my lifestyle. After all, it appeared to be just another open ended self-help book. However as I continued reading this success guide I began to really see myself in a whole new way. Sean Covey opened my eyes to see a different way to approach my life. Each habit provided flexible methods to make a person more productive in both their educational and personal life. This book’s seven habits can be applied to anyone despite age, gender, or occupation. Julia Quinlan is an excellent example of this. Even with the tragic loss of her daughter she was able to apply the seven habits in her own way. This inspired me …show more content…
Habit two stresses the necessity to plan ahead and “think with the end in mind” (Covey, 5). I always use materials such as an agenda or the calendar on my cell phone to organize my day. Habit 2 and Habit 3 work hand in hand. Properly planning events and assignments help to decide which project is the most urgent and when to work on it. If I continue to think forward it will build a solid foundation to help me work harder on Habit 3 and get my priorities straight. In a generation as competitive as the one today, it is important not to see life as a competition. Habit 4 is about thinking win-win and supporting other people’s accomplishments. Being involved in team sports has contributed in supporting other members of my team. I try to keep up this attitude in and outside of my team whether it be my friends or family. As I was reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens I personally related to Habit 5. This part of the book revolves around the concepts of listening and understanding others. I always enjoy listening to other people share their stories and express their feelings. I try my best to be as understanding and caring as possible. After all, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” (Covey 166). Rather than force my view upon the person I am with, I listen to what they have to
How do you organize your life? What goals do you have? “The 7 Habits of highly effective teens” by sean covey talks about skills you can use to set these goals and organize your life. The first 3 habits of the book have to do with being proactive and setting goals/priorities and achieving those goals.
The first habit was about being proactive which means going out doing things like working hard on school assignments or work.To be proactive is a big thing in life like being successful and working hard it can help you work anywhere if you're successful and not giving up on life. I think that this habit is very important in life and people without it are nothing because being proactive helps you move up in life. When you’re being proactive, you are one step ahead. You are trying to prevent problems from ever arising and if/when a problem does arise, you are prepared to tackle it. When you’re proactive, you are making things happen for yourself, rather than waiting around for things to happen to you.I will use it by being proactive playing sports includes being nice people and socializing in a good way, that habit means a lot of things and also this habit can help in a lot of ways.
Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is intended as a guide to help teens improve themselves and become successful in life. Its primary focuses are how to take control of your life, set and achieve goals, build friendships, maintain quality relationships, withstand peer pressure, and improve self-image. It consists of seven habits- Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win-Win, Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the saw. These habits are each designed to help you lead your best life. From this book, I have learned to take care of and love myself, maintain healthy relationships with others, work towards my goals, and resist anything that could potentially harm me or prevent me from doing these things.
Over the summer, I read a book titled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Convey. The seven habits described in this book were being proactive, Beginning with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood; synergize, and sharpen the saw. The first habit Being proactive means not to make choices on impulse. it means to evaluate the situation before making a desicion. for example, two years ago when i had friends that talked behind my back i just moved on and found better friends rather than be mean to them or excluding them out of my way. The second habit Beginning with the end in mind means to think ahead at what your goals are and start working towards them. My goal for the eight grade year was to recieve a 95% or higher score in all of my classes. in order to realize this goal i worked hard through the year on assignments and and sometimes did more than what was expected of me during projects. in the end, though,
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a book authored by Sean Covey. It was in the year 2001 the Indonesian version of the book first published in Indonesia. Sean Covey’s father, Stephen Covey, is well-known for authoring his international bestseller book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness, and many other popular self helping books. Sean Covey himself writes other several self helping books as well.
lIn “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” Stephen Covey helps people become more effective when dealing with the significant challenges of life. In details, Stephen Covey provides guidelines for managing time and balancing studies, social life, job, and other priorities. The first three habits are focused on personal victories. They teach how to develop self-mastery and dependence. Those three habits are: Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, and Put First Things First. Habits four, five, and six address interdependence, the success in working with others. Habit four: Think Win-Win, habit five: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, and habit six: Synergize. The seventh habit: Sharpen the Saw, talks about building
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey is a modified version of his father’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Unlike Stephen Covey, who wrote his book with the audience of adults in mind, his son’s book is targeted towards teens. “ Covey avoids the academic writing style that one will find in Stephen’s and delivers the seven habits model in an easy to read, humorous style that does not lose any of the impact of the seven habits” (Change Management Coach). Being both entertaining and visually appealing, Covey goes deep into the seven habits while adding life experiences of both him and family. Included are also the stories of teens around the country. Each habit builds upon the next; therefore you cannot have habit two and three without habit one. Although together, the habits makeup an effective teen, separately, they each help in different ways, mentally and socially.
Habit 1 : Be Proactive. The Habit of Personal Vision. According to Covey, this habit reflects our innate ability to take charge of our lives. We are not simply products of in-grained stimulus- response reflexes. We have the ability to take charge, plan ahead, and focus our energies on things we can control instead of reacting to or worrying about things over which we have little or no control. This habit allows us to rise above the ebbs and flows of the tides of our day-to-day lives and direct our lives.
Covey’s habit 4 I believe is one of the easiest habit but also a very effective habit to become successful and well-liked, without having to take advantage of anyone. I loved to read his examples, especially the one of the software company that was almost going bankrupt and accepted to not follow the contract, but then after that was asked for a way bigger service. It shows that if you think lose/win at first that it might be a bigger win later.
This habit is about prioritizing, planning, and executing a week 's tasks based on importance rather than urgency. It requires that I evaluate whether or not my efforts exemplify my desired character values, propel me towards my goals, and enrich the roles and relationships discussed in Habit 2.
To exist is to live a life without purpose, although to live, it is one of the greatest adventures anyone could experience. It does not matter how big or small, every organism is put on the earth for a reason. In Sean Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, he teaches teenagers how to have a part in the world. He includes real life stories and quotes to relate to his readers while delivering a message. His award winning book has sculpted teenage lives with over five million copies sold. Sean Covey’s seven habits have effected countless lives including mine. Three specific habits prompted me to adjust my life and I have discovered the habits in additional people.
Imagine being your little self and you come home to no dad, what would that make you feel? To hear that your dad just got erased from your life? Well, I had to deal with that, but The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, helped me understand that situation I had to live with when I was 6 years old. Yes, I’ve been thru the tears and the devastation, but, I still get traumatized by it.
Since the release of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Covey has written The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make, and Daily Reflections of Highly Effective
“Over two million copies sold” seeing that on the cover of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens I told myself to give it a chance. I had heard many different opinions about the book. Most of my peers were not overly excited when the y finished. However I decided to go into reading the book with a positive attitude knowing if I did enjoy it writing a paper about it would be much easier and I might even learn something. Reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens I saw many ways each habit pertained to my life. Some I felt I practiced fairly well while reading about a few others I knew I needed a little work. The habit I need the most work on is undoubtedly being proactive and the habit I need the least work on is sharpening the
In the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey brings 7 key things teens need to live a productive, open, and successful life to the table. Covey took 7 concepts teens are hesitant to tap into and made them easy to understand and adapt to. He manages to capture his audiences attention by sharing stories of other teens that we could easily relate to. Although each aspect of the habits were relatable to each aspect of my life, I was most engaged with habits 2:Begin with the end in mind, 3:Put First Things First, and Habit 4:Think Win-Win.