Reading: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens By: Sean Covey : Pages 1-57

SUMMARY:
    Sean Covey's the book &7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens lays down an outline and provides short stories for examples on how teens should live their lives in order to become successful like-able people. Chapter one begins with Getting in the Habit. Starting off, Getting in the Habit explains that goals are key in living life. Goals provide the focus that drives us day to day and without them we would have nothing to continue going. However, the book goes on to explain that one must stick to their goals though because 90% of the time a person will make a goal and follow it for about a week but then drop their interests in it. The book then provides a list in order to help organize goo habits. The list goes as the following, 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.
    The next section talks about Paradigms and Principles. Paradigms is a fancy word for perceptions. We all have perceptions on life and what we can and cannot do; however, this section begins by explaining that we cannot limit ourselves to what we can and cannot do but instead to perceive the things we think we cannot do, for why do things that we know we can do? It then continues to discuss real life stories of people that experienced situations that brought out different perceptions about themselves. Also, it then begins to discuss the problems of being to friend centered, and how that can disrupt the life of a person; similarly, the same results can occur if one becomes "stuff-centered." The section explains that being to centered on one thing can cause problems and one's life and that a mixture of everything is the best solution. The solution if one is too centered is principles. Principles establish a guideline for a way of life and define how a person will live from day to day. They help set up a structural plan for success.
RESPONSE:
    I think this book is very good! It's like having someone there telling you the correct way to live a life that will lead you in the right direction. When I read this book I picture it sort of like when in a cartoon a little angel is telling a person what to do while standing on their shoulder. This book is easy to read and is great with its incorporation of pictures, quotes, and real life story examples. I truly think that this book will help change my life for the better and I'm excited to see where this takes me.