1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective TEENS
By Sean Covey

2. What are Good Habits? Exercise Regularly Eat your vegetables
Complete your homework correctly
Show Respect for others
Listen first, then talk

3. What are Bad Habits? Blaming others Talking negatively about yourself
Procrastinate
Talk first, then listen

4. Take Responsibility for Your LIfe
Become Proactive
Not a doormat
NOT Reactive
Don’t take the easy way out

5. Activity Time

6. Listen to Your Language
Examples:

7. Proactive vs Reactive Reactive People Proactive People
Are easily offended
Blame others
Get angry and say things they later regret
Whine and complain
Wait for things to happen to them
Change only when they have to
Are NOT easily offended
Take responsibility for their choices
Think before they act
Bounce back when something bad happens
Always find a way to make it happen
Focus on things they can do something about, and don’t worry about the things they can’t

8. Our response to what happens to us
What Can I Control?
Our response to what happens to us
How much we worry about our responses to events

9. An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
From There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk by Portia Nelson

10. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in.
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out II
I walk down the same street.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

11. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
III
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it tis there.
I still fall in. It’s a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately. IV
I walk around it. V
I walk down another street.

12. YOU ARE FREE TO CHOOSE!
Self Awareness:
Conscience:
Imagination:
Willpower:
I can stand apart from myself and observe my THOUGHTS and ACTIONS.
I can listen to my inner voice to know RIGHT from WRONG.
I can envision NEW possibilities.
I have the power to choose.

14. Just Push Pause!
You choose your actions!