In the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, you’re taken on a journey to becoming a better person. This book is directed to teenagers, but it could help anybody if they feel their life needs to be changed for the better. There are 12 chapters in this book with each talking about how to live a healthier, calmer life. The first habit is Be Proactive, in this chapter it helps you learn how to react to a situation. You should use your tools, the tools of your mind of course. Habit 1 included four tools that you can use in everyday life to help you better evaluate your decisions. The tools included self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and willpower. Each tool is present in everybody, but it’s your decision if you
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This chapter tells you that you should have goals in life and try your hardest to live up to those goals. The author gives an example with a blueprint, you have to see the blueprint before you build the house. Same with life, you must figure out what you want, then strive to accomplish that goal. Every choice you make in life is your decision, no one can make you choose anything. Absolutely everything in your life is your choice stand by it never let anyone make you step down. Also, you should have a personal mission statement. A personal mission provides clarity and gives life a sense of purpose. Having one can remind you what you want, how you want to act, how you’re gonna live. And it’s extremely important that while you’re creating your personal mission statement that your figure out your talents, what you’re good at. Watch out for certain things too. Don’t listen to the negative labels if you listen to them enough you’ll start to believe those labels and you may think less of yourself. Don’t develop “It’s all over syndrome,” if you do you may never try new thing just cause of one mistake you’ve made. And lastly, watch out for the wrong wall. If you trying really hard to be popular and you’re climbing the success ladder to fast and you start to lose your friends and the sight of the right principles then you know your ladder is leaned against the wrong …show more content…
Habit 6 is Synergize, you should have synergy. Synergy is everywhere nature shares synergy trees and share roots, rhinos and small birds, and and in songs. It’s never just lyrics or the beat everything has to come together. And when celebrating differences some people got it all wrong. The shunner profile for example they don’t like to celebrate differences. They are afraid of differences they believe if someone is different than them they shouldn’t allow it in there life. A tolerator is sorta the same way, but instead ignoring differences they tolerate them they don’t shun it. But on the complete other side of the spectrum we have celebrators. They celebrate everyone’s differences they don’t believe you should shun someone out of your life cause they are different, they also don’t just tolerate it they value them. And we learn in different ways, see things different, experience things differently too. Being a celebration of diversity can help you out, you will make more friends, and have more things to look forward to. To use synergy you have work in a team. There are different people in a team plodders, followers, innovators, harmonizers, and show-offs. Everyone of them has their own job in helping the team achieve the desired
This chapter tells you that you should have goals in life and try your hardest to live up to those goals. The author gives an example with a blueprint, you have to see the blueprint before you build the house. Same with life, you must figure out what you want, then strive to accomplish that goal. Every choice you make in life is your decision, no one can make you choose anything. Absolutely everything in your life is your choice stand by it never let anyone make you step down. Also, you should have a personal mission statement. A personal mission provides clarity and gives life a sense of purpose. Having one can remind you what you want, how you want to act, how you’re gonna live. And it’s extremely important that while you’re creating your personal mission statement that your figure out your talents, what you’re good at. Watch out for certain things too. Don’t listen to the negative labels if you listen to them enough you’ll start to believe those labels and you may think less of yourself. Don’t develop “It’s all over syndrome,” if you do you may never try new thing just cause of one mistake you’ve made. And lastly, watch out for the wrong wall. If you trying really hard to be popular and you’re climbing the success ladder to fast and you start to lose your friends and the sight of the right principles then you know your ladder is leaned against the wrong …show more content…
Habit 6 is Synergize, you should have synergy. Synergy is everywhere nature shares synergy trees and share roots, rhinos and small birds, and and in songs. It’s never just lyrics or the beat everything has to come together. And when celebrating differences some people got it all wrong. The shunner profile for example they don’t like to celebrate differences. They are afraid of differences they believe if someone is different than them they shouldn’t allow it in there life. A tolerator is sorta the same way, but instead ignoring differences they tolerate them they don’t shun it. But on the complete other side of the spectrum we have celebrators. They celebrate everyone’s differences they don’t believe you should shun someone out of your life cause they are different, they also don’t just tolerate it they value them. And we learn in different ways, see things different, experience things differently too. Being a celebration of diversity can help you out, you will make more friends, and have more things to look forward to. To use synergy you have work in a team. There are different people in a team plodders, followers, innovators, harmonizers, and show-offs. Everyone of them has their own job in helping the team achieve the desired