Sean Convey 7 Habits

How do you organize your life? What goals do you have? “The 7 Habits of highly effective teens” by sean covey talks about skills you can use to set these goals and organize your life. The first 3 habits of the book have to do with being proactive and setting goals/priorities and achieving those goals.

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.

In life, what we perceive tends to show misconception in how the thought plays out. A good example would be the character Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic: The Great Gatsby. Gatsby was unable to distinguish between his love for Daisy, a reality, versus the illusion that he could recapture her love by establishing and inventing a fraudulent past. He believed he could repeat the past, and acquire a flaunting wealth. In the novel, Jay Gatsby seems incompetent in establishing a difference between the realities of his life versus the illusion he made out.

    Lastly, some people can see the world differently, but the majority sees it the same. For example, in the story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker the author adds, “Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflected in them.” What the author means in the quote is that years back a house was burned to the ground and it affected Maggie. Maggie witnessed the incident when she was younger and

After reading the novel Grit by Angela Duckworth I am now truly inspired. Throughout the novel she talks about her experiences and different ways to succeed in life. The four concepts she talked about were interest, practice, purpose and hope. These can all be used everyday. Especially in college and even later on in life. The two that stuck out to me the most were practice and purpose.

Even when that one perspective may not be the most accurate way of viewing something in a particular situation, it can be tempting neglect other perspectives or “tools”. The example given in class was Freud and his psychosexual theories. Freud believed that everything we did was a result of our sexual desires. Freud’s only “tool”, or perspective, was this belief , and he used it when viewing everything, even when it may have not been the best “tool for the job”.

What is Zen? Zen is something that can not be put into words. There are a few things that come close to attempting to describe what Zen is, but still do not fully reach the teachings of Zen. One attempt by Tao translator and philosophy author Derek Lin at defining what Zen is: “Zen means being free of the distractions and illusory conflicts of the material world.” “Being free of the distractions and illusory conflicts of the material world.”

My daughter started first grade at a new school this last fall. The school uses the book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” to focus on moral character and leadership. So, I read the book in order to have a working knowledge of certain terminology when it came up. In my search for joy, this book was leading me along a path that I realized I had already started. I just needed a little more guidance.

One perspective that is used would the Burke Theorem, which is the perspective that “seeing is also a way of not seeing”, meaning that those who view things a certain way will tend not see other factors that could be present in that situation. With that being said one way that this theorem is being presented in would be in the pictures that involve at least two different images at once. According to psychologist the way one interprets the picture at first or the image they see first before the other tends to be related to age, sex, and other social factors. The way one lives or how they were raised in their social environment will ultimately lead to their own personal way of interpreting things in the world.

A quote from Daniel Webster, a former American senator, is also portrays this theme in modern society. The quote reads “The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seen to know something as to know it.” This is a very powerful quote because it demonstrates how seeing should not believing and.....

The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a self-help book written by Sean Convey. This book is not just a guide for teens about building friendships, self image, and achieving goals, it offers faith .The 7 Habits of Highly Effective is a valuable guide to navigate though a young teens struggle and uncertainly. I would recommend the 7 habits of Highly Effective teens to all teenagers. Whether they are going through a tough time, or even one who’s enjoying their life. I would refer this book to all teenagers because it is relatable, gives you hope and is very inspiring.

The first reason that the professor uses to cast doubt on the reading is that people mostly accepts their beliefs rather than facts. According to the instructor, people lead to accept the bad and pessimistic information which they believe. This issue differs from the reading in which the author states that people could develop

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in." Isaac Asiman describes an assumption in a visual way. When people make an assumption, their view of the world becomes dimmer and darker. The window will get more tainted and the outside world won’t be as clear as it used to be. Their windows will be completely dark until all they can see is their reflections staring back at them with wondering eyes. The individual has been so sure of themselves that they didn't realize the world was slipping away into a dimming light. Now, all they are left with is darkness. Everyone has been pushed away by that individual's vision of how things are ought to be. It’s until that they see their own reflection do they see that the world has closed off. For the light to reappear in their life again, the person will have to see the other side and get in touch with the reality of the world. Once the

Throughout reading Sean Covey’s 7 Habits of HIghly Effective Teens you made undergo modifications in your own life if you are considering the life changing statements he made. The purpose of this book was to inspire and change young adults habits that they have conjured up. I have actually been able to apply some of these habits in my own life.He has taught me and some of my classmates many lesson as we have read and overviewed the text. These principles or habits have taught me about a healthy relationship, how to make smarter choices for my life, trusting that I have self worth, and how to make me and my parents relationship better.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey is a modified version of his father’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Unlike Stephen Covey, who wrote his book with the audience of adults in mind, his son’s book is targeted towards teens. “ Covey avoids the academic writing style that one will find in Stephen’s and delivers the seven habits model in an easy to read, humorous style that does not lose any of the impact of the seven habits” (Change Management Coach). Being both entertaining and visually appealing, Covey goes deep into the seven habits while adding life experiences of both him and family. Included are also the stories of teens around the country. Each habit builds upon the next; therefore you cannot have habit two and three without habit one. Although together, the habits makeup an effective teen, separately, they each help in different ways, mentally and socially.