Every teen has challenges they face every day. After reading the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, these habits to be proactive and to synergize can be very beneficial to teens everyday. Synergize is to be helpful and work with people. To be proactive is to have control of your self. These two habits are the most beneficial to teens in there daily life's. I believe Habit 1: Being Proactive is very beneficial to teens. To be proactive is to be in control of your life, and do not let anyone peer pressure you in to doing things that are not smart, illegal, or bad. Proactive teens are confident and don't give up on little things. They take responsibility in their choices and consequences. If you live by being proactive you will be more successful …show more content…
Synergize is to work with some one to get a better solution and it's a mutual agreement. If you use synergize in your daily life, your daily life will be easier. Teenagers don't like working together they think they can do everything on there own, but don't get me wrong there are some teenagers that will work with someone and get the work done no problem. "No part is more important than the other, just different" (Covey 183). In other words it's saying nothing is more important than another it's just different. The way I implemented habit 1: was when my brother and I were in the car arguing and I remembered in the book it said"Use proactive language not reactive", so instead of yelling I was the bigger person and ignored him and I was calm about it. I learned being proactive is a way healthier way of living. In addition I implemented habit 6: my dad and I went to NC to buy me a four-wheeler and on the way home we had to come up with a mutual solution to get it out of the truck, so my dad and I came up with a solution that we both agreed on. We back the truck in a ditch and used the lip of the ditch to roll it out on. I learned from habit 6 to work with people and don't be so self
get along with people who are differnt than us. They made me realize that I could learn something
I have learned how to be an optimistic person and spread positivity with others. Recently I went to Puerto Rico to visit my family and there I met a numerous amount of vagrant people who did not have food on a daily basis nor a home to come to after an elongated day. I felt so pleased to be able to bless those individuals with nutrition, water, and clothes. Before I developed into who I am now, I did not have goals and accomplishments, I did not really have a determination in life. Learning who Christ was helped me become more linguistic, kinesthetic and spatial.
We must focus on the most important things to us than the more required because when you focus on something that is important to you, you will do it with passion. However, when what you do is the most urgent, you do it in a way to get it over with. Habit 3 presents the idea of remaining focused throughout whatever you do and applying your values to whatever decision you decide to make. Stephen Covey even describes this through the quote "The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
This section is a private victory, and the habit is proactive .being proactive means you can react to situations without exploding, and you can do things more thought out, and calm. Being proactive is kind of like water you shake it up and nothing happens. But not being proactive is like pop when you shake it up it explodes. I believe that I am not very good at this task and i need to
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, acknowledges how habits control our daily lives in every decision we make. For Instance, an ambitious woman named Lisa Allen, has not always had a fruitful life. Previously, she had abused her body with harmful toxins such as tobacco and alcohol since the beginning of her teenage years. Carrying out these habits everyday resulted her into being unmotivated and unconfident. In fact, she never kept a job longer than a year and began to fall into major debt. “She needed a goal in her life, she thought. Something to work toward” (xii-xiv). It begins with the “three-step loop” a cue that triggers our brain to do the habit. Next a routine, a set of actions that are either physical or mental. Finally a reward of satisfaction that determines whether or not this habit will be continuous (19). Not all habits can be good, but this is where the golden rule applies. Duhigg explains that in order for you to change your habit “ you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine”(62). “However, simply understanding how habits work- learning the structure of the habit loop makes them easier to control”( 20). Reading The Power of Habit, helped me understand the process by which I made a positive change to fight procrastination.
People need to think intelligently and set goals that are specific to their needs, making it possible to achieve their goals by making sure they are measurable and realistic and making it possible to build a support system around them; furthermore, they also need to set a deadline with time frames that can be met. Chanika Charles stated that “young people are at risk of being gobbled up by despair, overcome by conditions beyond their control” (A17). To avoid this, people need to start motivating themselves and getting excited about what they want to achieve, making sure their goals are relevant to their needs and being more perseverance when situations become difficult. When setting up their goals, they must ask that magic question: is this relevant to my lifestyle, furthermore, what will I do to achieve it?
Lucky for me, I finally learned how to be healthy. It took longer than I would’ve liked but I don’t regret my journey. Learning what being healthy means made me the person I am today.
Habits are choices that one continues to do repeatedly without actually thinking about them. Habits start with a decision, but they eventually become automatic. One can probably think about things we do every day that we wish we did less of, perhaps like binging Netflix, constantly checking social media, or snacking when not being hungry. If one can understand how habits are triggered, one can learn how to overcome them. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and “Rat Park” by Lauren Slater will reveal the main strategies to recognize and overcome habits. Angie Bachman, a women who developed a gambling habit due was well aware of her habits, but she continued to drag herself into debt, resulting in losing all that she owned and getting sued by
...tion and educational programs designed to help with discipline and an understanding importance of teamwork amongst peers that they must learn to live with.
One thing I learned is how to calculate discounts with money. When I go shopping and see something I like on sale, instead of running around searching for a price check I can easily calculate its price in my head. Another thing I have learned is how to write a resume. When applying for a job I need to write a resume; it’s an essential part of my future and career. One last thing I learned was the importance of compromise. When working in a group, and not only that, but anywhere you will find people who don’t always agree or even like you. However, if you learn to compromise you can work with anyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. In the workplace, in the grocery store, even at home, you will constantly find people you don’t agree with, but you cannot always dismiss them but must work with
This leaflet aims to help you address these habits, understand them and hopefully, overcome them.
Being proactive is the first step in the seven habit journey. I thought I was proactive because I always had to plan everything in my life. Family vacations, work schedules, continuing education all were events that I was proud to say I planned right down to the last detail. Reading the Covey material I realized that being proactive went much deeper than just planning life events. Being proactive involves choosing my attitude, focusing on my circle of influence and not my circle of concern, and turning setbacks into triumphs. Being proactive means to act based on principles not emotions. We all need a pause button that would allow us to stop during that time between...
understand that being proactive is one of the most powerful ways to ensure my success. One of the keys to my success is the ability to think about my own thought process. This is called self awareness, and this is the reason humanity can make significant advances from generation to generation. Self awareness allows me to evaluate and learn from my own experiences and the experiences of others. This is the key to making and breaking my habits. Only when I take how I see myself into account will I be able to access my full personal potential and my ability to relate to others. Thanks to self awareness, I can examine my paradigms and determine if they are based in reality. The key to being self aware is to reject the social mirror that feeds
A habit can be many things, some good, some not so good. Everyone has habits that they would like to change and maybe improve upon. I believe the majority of habits I have are good ones but some are not. These bad habits are the ones I will talk about.
You can only control you and your life, you can’t control anyone else’s life just your own. Be like a glass of water that doesn’t fiz rather than a can of coke that does fiz. I am good at being proactive most of the time but I am occasionally more reactive and that is definitely something a need to try and get better at. I need to stop reacting so much on impulse.