“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” -English Poet.

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEENS

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

-English Poet

Who am I?

I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

Those how are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

I AM YOUR HABITS.

Habits can make you or break you.

In order to be successful, you have to develop EFFECTIVE habits.

EFFECTIVE PEOPLE HAVE EFFECTIVE HABITS.

Are these effective people with effective habits in your opinion?

Look at the following photos…

Ineffectiveness has cost people some major opportunities in the past….

“There is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home.” – Kenneth Olsen, CEO of Digital Technologies in 1977

“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market…People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”- Darryl Zanuck, Head of 20th Century Fox, 1946

“We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.” – Decca Record rejecting The Beatles in 1962

“For [most] people, tobacco has a beneficial effect.” – Dr. Ian MacDonald, 1969

“Nothing of importance happened today.”- King George III, July 4th 1776.

To be an effective teenager or adult, you NEED to develop these 7 habits as opposed to these:

Be proactive

Begin with the end in mind

Put first things first

Think Win-Win

Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Synergize

Sharpen the Saw

React/ Blame everyone else Begin with no end in mind-

never set a goal Put first things last- put off

important stuff until after you’ve had fun

Think win-lose- be constantly competitive

Seek first to talk, then pretend to listen- talk all the time. You’re the only own who knows anything, right?

Don’t Cooperate Wear yourself out- never take

any time for yourself to do something you enjoy on your own