The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

This semester, we learned specific ways to build our leadership capabilities by reading “How Remarkable Women Lead” by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston, researching Boston women leaders, interviewing a present day woman leader, and reading a group book. Throughout all of these resources and research, common themes of how to be a successful leader emerged. Not only did I learn more about leadership in general, but I also found ways to improve my own leadership without going too much out of my comfort zone. The important lessons of leading with perseverance, framing, and an activist's mindset thoroughly influenced my identity as a leader and gave me new tactics to grow as a person.

On a more personal level, the Leadership Program has taught me the value of time management, organization, and confidence. Each of these characteristics was developed through the personal service project that I designed. My personal project was focused on my area of interest, dietetics. I chose to work with pediatric obesity patients at the University Children's Hospital. Lori Hardford, a local dietician, and myself will be holding a five week seminar with these children. During these five weeks we will work to teach the children the importance of good nutrition through hands on activities. The main emphasis will be to teach the obese children the four food groups, balanced meals, portion sizes, and healthy snack options. Then during the fifth week, the group will meet to play a game (similar to trivial pursuit) that reflects on what they have learned the previous four sessions. By planning my individual project, time management was essential. I had to balance my class load with planning the project and meeting with Lori Hardford. It was very difficult to find time when both Lori and I were available to talk.

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,

I am writing to you to show the appreciation I have for you self-help book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. I want you, the author, to see the effect your book has amongst the teen population and how the techniques you used, including your writing styles, throughout the book, helped create a personal relationship to the text. I also want to give you a realistic point-of-view of your story and highlight some aspects that could use some improvement for better understanding. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed your book, therefore giving reason for me to write this letter to you.

To exist is to live a life without purpose, although to live, it is one of the greatest adventures anyone could experience. It does not matter how big or small, every organism is put on the earth for a reason. In Sean Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, he teaches teenagers how to have a part in the world. He includes real life stories and quotes to relate to his readers while delivering a message. His award winning book has sculpted teenage lives with over five million copies sold. Sean Covey’s seven habits have effected countless lives including mine. Three specific habits prompted me to adjust my life and I have discovered the habits in additional people.

I have always known I love change, but from this class, I learned change is the hallmark of a leader. As John C. Maxwell says in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, “Growth = Change.”The leadership assessments allowed me to understand myself in a new way. Because I am a curious green thinker, I need explanations and answers to understand my world. I tend to see the big picture of a project and my mind motivates me toward something new or improved. I am curious about new opportunities because I easily become bored with routine. Learning I have these characteristics has increased my confidence to pursue future leadership roles in a small to a mid-sized position.

A leader takes diligent time in considering the ability to adhere to other people’s interests and presents their followers with a positive mindset. This summer, I accepted an invitation to participate in the Dale Carnegie Young Adult Leadership Program. Attendees of this program learned several skills that can be applied to future experiences, especially on how to become an effective leader. Everyday, the attendees acted as leaders by accomplishing various tasks that forced them to reach out of their comfort zones. We acted as leaders by leading group

Chino Hills High School has an amazing leadership and ASB program. The students and staff promote positivity in every activity that they host for CHHS. On January 11th, the Chino Hills High School leadership and ASB did an amazing activity where they invited another leadership group called CASL (California Association of Student Leaders). Leadership and ASB connected with CASL to help motivate some middle school leadership students who are incoming freshmen. The CHHS leadership students had an opportunity to not only motivate the middle students to become better leaders, but to also allow them to participate in some fun activities. They did many activities such as, wrapping themselves in newspaper and trying to create the best out of something

As previous students of the grade school level,we did not have difficulty recalling how we nonchalantly dismissed the intense atmoshpere that was told to us would come with college. There was a necessity to impress upon the students the severety of the information that we were going to tell them, however the they first had to be captured. How better to catch a swimming fish than with a little bait. Leadership. What young person does not desire to be a leader. Weither people strive to be a team leader or they simply wish to cure cancer they all desire to be at the head of their dreams. By introducing the topic we were goiing to discuss as Leadership 101 the students would focus in on the speakers. There are always those few who make snide remarkes and sneeker back and forth but they pay attention non-the-less. Then the speakers introduce themselves firmly with authority and passion, demonstrating a lack of hesitation and a sense of perpose. This is an important moment for the speakers because subconciously the students acknowledge the personal certainty with the topic that the speakers, who are only one year ahead of them, are there to

One evening, had to close the kitchen with two newcomers who were still adapting to their jobs. I corrected them if they were wrong, and made sure they would voice their opinions and ask questions without reluctance, until time began pressuring me. I lost myself for a few minutes and began to focus only on closing the kitchen. However, at the end, I taught them almost all of the tasks that needed to be done at night with a little overtime. This I acted in a way that will greatly have a positive effect in the future, because leadership is not only about leading the teammates in a single moment, but it is also about providing them a better future from what the leader can teach.

For this spring semester, I decided to participate and complete the Aspiring Leader On Track program. The three events I attended were: How to Lead a Meeting, Climate Change, and Leadership Lessons from Leslie Knope. The Aspiring Leader is developed specifically for freshman and sophomores in college. The purpose of this track was to help develop leadership and social skills for the following years of college life.

It would appear that my original theory regarding the applicability and practicality of this capstone was accurate. This course has managed to successfully supplement the knowledge I had previously acquired in other courses. For example, I was familiar with and understood the basic principles of leadership. However, this course has taught me that the ability to lead is not an exact science, but an art and determining how to proceed when faced with uncertainty or a highly volatile situation is an exceptional challenge.

In the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey brings 7 key things teens need to live a productive, open, and successful life to the table. Covey took 7 concepts teens are hesitant to tap into and made them easy to understand and adapt to. He manages to capture his audiences attention by sharing stories of other teens that we could easily relate to. Although each aspect of the habits were relatable to each aspect of my life, I was most engaged with habits 2:Begin with the end in mind, 3:Put First Things First, and Habit 4:Think Win-Win.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a book authored by Sean Covey. It was in the year 2001 the Indonesian version of the book first published in Indonesia. Sean Covey’s father, Stephen Covey, is well-known for authoring his international bestseller book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness, and many other popular self helping books. Sean Covey himself writes other several self helping books as well.

Stephen R. Covey’s self-help book is an influential communication for personal change. He advises building from the inside-out and offers a plan for moving from dependence to independence and then to interdependence. The inside-out approach starts first with one self, which includes paradigms, characters, and motivations. To improve relationships with others, we have to first improve ourselves by putting character ahead of personality.