Habit 1: What Does It Means To Be A Person

Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is intended as a guide to help teens improve themselves and become successful in life. Its primary focuses are how to take control of your life, set and achieve goals, build friendships, maintain quality relationships, withstand peer pressure, and improve self-image. It consists of seven habits- Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win-Win, Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the saw. These habits are each designed to help you lead your best life. From this book, I have learned to take care of and love myself, maintain healthy relationships with others, work towards my goals, and resist anything that could potentially harm me or prevent me from doing these things.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is like a book full of advice to help teenagers who are falling and is in need of help. The book explains the goods and the bads of each everyday habit that teens use. The book also gives you ideas and advice to help you start doing these habits the correct way. There is 7 habits that are explained in the book, be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw. I’ve learned a lot of things from the book like the more you listen the more you gather information to state your own opinion, which i’ve been learned, and make sure to build relationships with everyone so you can gain trust with that person. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a good book for people who are in need of help and it can also make a big difference in life if you follow and do what the habits say.

The first habit Sean Convey lists of the seven is “Be Proactive.” This habit made an impact on me because it sends a message that I try to take into account everyday, but haven’t one-hundred percent fulfilled. The habit, “Be Proactive” is important because it says that you are in full control of your life, your decisions and your attitude. A quote that Convey adds to support this message is, “You can not control what happens to you, but you can control how you react.” You choose everyday to be proactive or reactive. Reactive people act solely on impulse, whereas proactive people think before they act, make decisions based on their values, and always find a way to move forward. Habit #1 is important because it teaches readers to take initiative, be proactive rather than reactive, and to not let others

Habit 1 is Be Proactive. This means that we need to accept the reality that we have the power to choose how we respond to the circumstances in our lives. We are ultimately responsible for our own lives, our actions, and our attitudes. By choosing to respond positively to events in our lives by creatively using our resources and initiative, we become proactive. If we are to truly become effective we must also come to realize that there are things we can control and things we cannot. Covey calls this our Circle of Concern vs. our Circle of Influence. Our time and energy needs to be focused on our Circle of Influence, those things that we can control or have influence on rather than our entire Circle of Concern, those things we are concerned about. Often times our Circle of Concern is larger than our Circle of Influence and therein

Over the summer, I read a book titled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Convey. The seven habits described in this book were being proactive, Beginning with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood; synergize, and sharpen the saw. The first habit Being proactive means not to make choices on impulse. it means to evaluate the situation before making a desicion. for example, two years ago when i had friends that talked behind my back i just moved on and found better friends rather than be mean to them or excluding them out of my way. The second habit Beginning with the end in mind means to think ahead at what your goals are and start working towards them. My goal for the eight grade year was to recieve a 95% or higher score in all of my classes. in order to realize this goal i worked hard through the year on assignments and and sometimes did more than what was expected of me during projects. in the end, though,

Habit one is about being proactive. Being proactive is like making sure you don’t blame other people for you choices in life. Being proactive or reactive is your choice, but if you always be reactive you will not get anywhere in life. Knowing who is reactive and who is proactive is very easy because someone who is reactive will chew someone out or always be depressed or they also could be childish and give you the silent-treatment. Knowing someone when there proactive they forgive you and give you a second chance, confronting them and tell them how you feel, and realizing that everyone makes. Being proactive all the time can pay off because you can brush things off like it never happened or who can always find a way to move forward in life. Making sure you always turn your mistakes into triumphs are very important in life because you cant let your setbacks take control of your life. Sometimes you just need to push pause on life and take a little break to help you regain your strength. I plan on using habit one in my life more so I dont always blame everything on other people.

The last three weeks I have learned about three habits, and they are; habit 1 being proactive, habit 2 begin with the end in mind, and lastly, habit 3 first thing's first, I have an so learned how to use them anywhere.lastly, how they can/will improve my life for good and help me through a difficult path.

Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of “small habits” and how they can make your goals easier to achieve, it’s important to understand the presence and sheer power of habits in our every-day lives.

Habits, as much as memory and cognition, are playing a pivotal role in our ordinary behavior. Majority of the choices we make each day may feel like they are the outcome of premeditated decisions, when in reality they are not. Once a habit starts unfolding, the brain is searching for methods to save effort and stops fully partaking in decision-making. We might not always be able to recall the actions that generate our habits, but once they are engraved within our brains, they influence our behavior without us even being aware of it. Habits become part of our nature. In the book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg depicts how one can create good habits and break the bad ones.

I finished reading the Power of habit Book, and a lot of things I used to do it without even think about now it called habit? This book it’s a magnificent resource for people in general people. It doesn’t matter what level you are in business arena or you are retired. I liked how the author Mr. Duhigg structured, generate and link a phenomenal number of research studies, practical involvements, and corporate research into an understandable summary of how habits are designed and how we can change them.

Furthermore, the book provides great real life examples about habits and about how they can be changed by understanding how they work. In understanding the structure of habits, the book mentions that habits can be ignored, changed and replaced. It also mentions that in order to change a habit the cue and reward

Habit 1 : Be Proactive. The Habit of Personal Vision. According to Covey, this habit reflects our innate ability to take charge of our lives. We are not simply products of in-grained stimulus- response reflexes. We have the ability to take charge, plan ahead, and focus our energies on things we can control instead of reacting to or worrying about things over which we have little or no control. This habit allows us to rise above the ebbs and flows of the tides of our day-to-day lives and direct our lives.

Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is intended as a guide to help teens improve themselves and become successful in life. Its primary focuses are how to take control of your life, set and achieve goals, build friendships, maintain quality relationships, withstand peer pressure, and improve self-image. It consists of seven habits- Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win-Win, Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the saw. These habits are each designed to help you lead your best life. From this book, I have learned to take care of and love myself, maintain healthy relationships with others, work towards my goals, and resist anything that could potentially harm me or prevent me from doing these things.

Habit 2:Begin with the End in Mind was probably the habit that hit home most for me. Like most teens I was struggling with my priorities. I have to

This habit is about prioritizing, planning, and executing a week 's tasks based on importance rather than urgency. It requires that I evaluate whether or not my efforts exemplify my desired character values, propel me towards my goals, and enrich the roles and relationships discussed in Habit 2.