Highly Effective Teens

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Everyone has a habit that they need out of there lives like; smoking, procrastinating, drugs, drinking, ect. Most people say that teens these years have it easy because we don't have much on use like they did, but if you think about Teens these year have a lot of pressure on them and work really hard for themselves. For a teen you have to be straight A, be good looking, be fit, and still have a social life to be even close to fitting in. With that pressure teens start to fall into bad habits and grow up to be unsuccessful. The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is very helpful and useful for teens it will show you ways to improve your way that you look at life and they way you look towards others.

A way to becoming a better teens is to "Begin with the End in Mind" (78);

which means to set small goals that you can accomplish in a day or a week. Your goals shouldn't be big goals that take over years to get to because you'll be to focused on that one big goal instead of what in front of you now. Setting goals will make you more responsible and proactive. An great goal to set is getting your homework done and on time, or trying out on a sports team and making it.
When your using the "Begin with the End in Mind" method it will keep you more focus on what's important. It would make you're 24 hours of your day more useful just by setting goals you are striving to have better and happier results in your life.( ) When setting goals make sure there for you and not for none else to make happier because it's your life and you should make it how you want it.
For teens when we're at middle/ high school all we want to do is please people so we won't get on there bad side, so we start to respond yes to every favor they ask you. Then your life would be taken over and you wouldn't be able to do anything you wanted to do in life without pleasing someone else. So make goals for yourself to get your life organized and planned.

Another smart way to becoming a better teen is to "Put First Thing First" and which means to get the important work done first.

You have to find ways to balance out your life to get the thing you need done but still have time for you, family, relationships, and friends. The Teens get home from school are tired and not wanting to work any more after working for 8 hours at school. Teens are given a lot of work to do at home but are tired for 8 hours of school and learning so instead or working they go play video games, chill with friends, or just sleep.
One thing that teen constantly do is procrastinate. Procrastination is the avoiding important work that needs to be done in a period of time. Most people who do it often are not stressed because they never do anything, then they stay up all night to get there project, easy, or homework done. Waiting till the last minute is not going to good for your stress level nor for your grade. Staying up all night to study for a test is less affect then studying over a week. On page 113 of 7 Habits or Highly Effective Teens it shows you what it feels like to be a procrastinator then how it feels to get things

done.

When we read the book I never really believed that these methods would work; I thought it was just way to make us do more work and to be honest no one likes work. Our teacher made the whole class to try out 2 methods and describe the results. When I used the Being with End in Mind method I focused on one thing at a time which got a little hectic at times because we I got more then one thing to worry about I had to do it at the last minute, but it could work differently for other people. I wouldn't say it's my favorite method but it did work for my homework, studying, and goals for dancing.

The next method I tried out was the "Put First Things First" and this was my favorite method I used because it made me be more proactive in school and get work done. Throughout out the week I was organized and getting things done, and get things right. With my homework I got it done when I was in the car or listening to music instead of stay up 2 more hours to get it done.

The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a great book for teens in trouble. The book helps everyone push out there bad habits and bring in the good new ones. The two best habits to bring into your life is Being with the End of Mind, or Put First Things First. Which will make you a better and smarter teen for the future.