7 habits of highly successful teens habit 7

Part 2

Habit 7: sharpen the saw

3) Heart: always do what is right so 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 is your internal compass it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives directions, even true north, your personal compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and path you need to trod.

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

Get into the habits of daily improving your body (physical fitness), your 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 them. When teens “they are keeping their personal self-sharp so that they can better deal with life. It means regularly renewing and strengthening the four key dimensions of life body, mind, heart, and soul.

1)   Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruit, vegetables, legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smocking, 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 in the 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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7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 6

Habit 6: synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either could alone. Through this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, higher way. Synergy allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. Synergy is the reward, the delicious fruit you’ll 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 a V formation 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 this: 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, it’s all of them together that make up the “sound.” each band member brings his or her strength to the table to create something better then each could alone. No instrument is more important than another, just different.

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7 habits of highly successful teens 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 that many don’t feel understood. This habit will ensure you 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 is to 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 middle unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Listening with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 percent of the 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 reflects in our voice (40%). Most people are eager to talk and rather talk than listen we have one mouth and 2 ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. Learn to listen to learn. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand then to be understood. LISTEN

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7 habits of highly successful teens habit 3

Habits: put first things first

Habit 3 is about will and will not power. This habit helps teens prioritize and manage their time so that they focus on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. Its living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deals with things that are: important or not important, urgent or not urgent. Let’s look at the 4 quadrants of time management.

Quadrant1: things that are important and urgent

Quadrant2: things that are important but not urgent

Quadrant3: things that are not important but are urgent

Quadrant4: things that are not important and not urgent

1.    Important and urgent	2.    Important but not urgent
3.    Not important but are urgent	4.    Not important and not urgent

 Quadrant 2 is the ideal place to spend our time, doing things that are important but not urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play. The results for quadrant 2 are:

1.    Control of your life

2.    Balance

3.    High performance

So, in what quadrant are you spending most your time? The key is to shift as much time as possible into quadrant 2 and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

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7 habits of highly successful teens habit 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 opinion of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decision making process.

“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 achievement 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 by Sean covey

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

How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life changing decisions. As a parent, you are responsible to help them learn the principles and ethics that will help them learn their goals and live a successful life.

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 example can be very influential

Covey himself has done well by following a parent’s example. His dad, Stephen Covey, wrote the book the 7 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 a more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them.

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