7 habits of highly successful Teens Habit 1

(By Sean Covey but modified)

Habit 1: Be Proactive.

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility for her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own happiness or unhappiness. They don’t blame others for their own actions or feelings. Proactive people realize that the ball is in their court, that they are the captain for their own ship; that they are in control. Control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, decisions, actions, goals, and priorities. Proactive people are self-starters; they don’t wait to be told what to do, they press forward with enthusiasm toward the achievement of their assignment, their duties, their responsibilities, 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 initiative.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

By Sean Covey

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. In his book, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Convey 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 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 their principles and ethics that will help them to reach 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,” Convey says. So practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential.

covey himself has done well by followinga 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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Part 13

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualize techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learned both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals. Simply visualize your desired goals, that of being a star student, a champion of doing what is right, and see yourself working hard to become outstanding, and your dreams and vision will materialize as you pursue these objectives. Setting goals and objectives can be personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

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What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestones in your ambitious, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self – belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed. Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in,  a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

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acquiring the habits of highly successful students part 11

Acquiring the habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 11

Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeling stress and pressure, and both factors will prove disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I frequently give is that, when you are assigned a home work, try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and don’t submit it immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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ACQUIRING THE HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS

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·     They prefer tasks with some degree of difficulty and novelty, which stimulate their learning skills

·     They don’t apply the simple criteria of success- fail to their learning. Remember, they are focused into the learning process.

·     They know how to handle groups.

·     Finally they work with passion.

Other chief habit is that of asking questions. We have to establish hypothesis and set concrete, realistic goals. After reading any text we have to ask several different questions related to its content, in order to verify if we have completely understood the text. It’s also important to try to relate such text and other areas of our knowledge. Again, linking ideas and concepts is a habit of highly successful students. So, link.

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·      THEY CONCENTRATE ON THE PROCESS OF SOLVING THE TASK AND UNDERSTANDING THE INVOLVED IDEAS. OF COURSE WE ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING GOOD RESULTS, BUT THE PROCESS IS MORE IMPORTANT. A RESULT IS A VERY BRIEF MOMENT OF LIFE, WHILE LEARNING TO DEVELOP PROCESSES IS A SKILL THAT WILL LAST FOR THE WHOLE LIFE.

·      THEY INTERPRET AND ANALYZE ERRORS AS A WAY OF INCREASING THEIR LEARNING, I.E., THEY TRY TO LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES. THIS WAY, THEY SEE ERRORS AND FAILURES AS OPPERTUNITIES.

·      THEY LOOK FOR THE REQUIRED INFORMATION IN SEVERAL CHANNELS (books, journals, newspaper, excerpts, internet, and so on.)

·      They consult excerpts and teachers frequently. This action provides a new perspective about the studied topics.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

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v Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two – aspects – life within and life without; internal life and external life – and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. we still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform ouor practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as the life in the internal world.

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Acquiring the habits of highly successful STUDENTS PART 6

Acquiring the habits of highly successful  students

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If you prefer to play videogames, then remember that making any games requires to prepare a detailed script including history, characters, goals and relations. Therefore, you could start writing the script for your “dream” game. On the other side, you can imagine how the novel you are reading could be transformed into a videogame (start out by thinking which gaming genre fits the novel better: role playing adventure action and so on.) the basic idea is to find match point and links between our affections and our chores. And such links there always exist. Remember to link ideas and concepts is the most important habit for successful students.

Successful students also exhibit other particular traits we should internalize:

·       They are always trying to discover better approaches in order to accomplish their tasks (adequate studying place, availability of resources etc.) you may find my post on Pristine Home with Feng Shui useful for improving your studying environment.

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