Only Depend on Yourself for Happiness

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.

Have you ever truly sat and considered what makes you truly happy? Often times, people answer directly with the response of money. We say this without deeply considering all that we have to be grateful for. Happiness is not achieved through wealth instead through experiences, the family we love, and the nature that surrounds us, literature has created a great impact upon the ideals we consider to create our happiness.

The beauty of mankind is that we are all unique in countless ways. We are all gifted with our own particular sets of skills, talents and interests. To state the overused cliché, we are all like snowflakes; no two people are exactly alike. I take comfort in the fact that no one can tell me exactly how to live my life solely based on the notion that it’s my life. I am my own person with my own personality, my own set of goals, and my own plans for the future.

No one forces you to be happy, we as individuals have to choose to be happy. This option to be happy gives people opportunities to be better. Choosing to be happy can lead to accomplishing your, or others dreams,overcoming obstacles, and giving others happiness.

Do you know the definition of insanity? It’s “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Many people roll through life thinking like this, thinking that what they do is a waste of their lives by expecting change yet never taking action. But there is a solution in Jack Canfield’s and Kent Healy’s book. The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be “is a road map whether your goal is to become a better student, athlete, start a business, make millions of dollars, or simply find guidance or direction”. I believe that Canfield and Healy accomplish this by giving advice for certain situations and advice to keep you on track to success through their success principles.

In 2002 the University of Illinois conducted an experiment surveying students attending U of I, using the top 10% scorers digging deeper into personal happiness. You may ask what cause it? One reason is the strong ties with family and friends. It shows the top scorers were found to be happiest when with their family, friends, and significantly happier than alone. The study also shown people with more “close relationships” being able to reveal

As a teen, I’ve experienced a lot. Some experiences were better than other and some were for my own good. What I’ve realized is that with each experience, there’s a lesson. One thing that I’ve learned in my teens is that if you want certain things to go your way you have to do it yourself.

In life, people tend to face the question of what makes them happy. Happiness can be defined as “a state of well-being and contentment” (Merriam-Webster). Everyone has their own opinion and definition of what happiness is in their own lives. When I am asked this question, I tend to say that being with my friends and family who I can fully be myself around is what makes me happy.

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 feeling of happiness is ubiquitous. In the book of “Stumping on Happiness” states, “to choose or want one thing rather than another because it would be more pleasant,” which is to say that the pursuit of happiness is built the very definition of desire” (Gilbert 33). Happiness is a feeling because I can use my eyes to see all the lovely things in the world. I can use my ear to listen to the natural singing softly. I can use my hand to touch the delicate petals. I am happy I can use my nose to smell the scent of grass. Happiness can have endless memories. Unlike a blind man living in the shadowy world, he has to use walking sticks as a guide to precede the life of the road ahead of him. His main support is to touch a person to perceive

Author Damian Mark Smyth once said "We're One, we've always been One, we'll always be One, until we think we are not". The question then remains, is why do we choose to suffer? As a result of forgetting, we create an illusory world of duality, which leads to suffering. Yet, we refuse to change our way of thinking and continue to live in a cycle of unhappiness. We begin to want things that make us feel less lonely and to fill the void in ourselves.

During your teen years yoo should always stay true to yourself and independent. Just by doing these things it will help you in the future by being more successful and making the right choices, rather than doing stupid things and being negatively influenced from your friends that will impact your life in the future. This is shown through Retrospect by Ebony Curtin, A Choice by Anon, Beautiful by Stargirl and Independence by Elizabeth Halley. All these are written by New Zealanders.

I can really relate to learning that nobody's opinion matters more than my own. It's amazing how impacted one can be by the words of another even if that person doesn't mean much to you... on the other hand if that person does mean a lot to you then there words will have a greater effect but in the end it is still up to you to decide how successful you are going to be. In my life right now there are so many people telling me to do so many things that I almost don't know what to do with myself, so taking a step back to really know what it is I want is proving

"Show me your friends, I 'll show you your future". This quote is one of my favorite quotes of all time, which I heard from a speech given by Jim Tressel.I 've been surrounded around great friends my whole life, and I believe they take a big part in why I have a pretty bright future. They have always been great influences around me, and are always telling me what the right and wrong things are to do. Friends are like a second family to most people, if you aren 't with your family your with you friends. Its very important to have a good stable friend group that help lead you into the right path. Growing up in my town there was the fair share of drugs and violence but not as bad as some neighborhoods where the price of living is low. If I were to grow up in a different social class, I could have been raised up in town where crime and drugs

What does happiness even mean? Does everything think the same when they hear happiness. I do not believe that happiness means the same thing to