The Seven Habits

Everyone wants to achieve a successful, fulfilling life, but we do not all know how to accomplish this. How do we do it? Sean Covey wrote the book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, help us teens learn to want to make a restored life, and teach us how to achieve this goal. He has three ways to do this to make this happen with wholeness, relationships, and balance. By applying the principles of the seven habits, we can find wholeness, meaningful, productive relationships, and balance in our everyday lives.

According to Covey, and the seven habits, teens should complete private victory before public. This is how we can achieve wholeness in our daily lives. Some teens think they need to make everyone like them before they
This involves habits four, five, and six. The habits are “Think Win-Win”, “Seek First to Understand, Then to be understood”, and “Synergize”. We can make meaningful, productive relationships with these. Sean Covey wants everyone to win. If we think positive, show self-confidence, and treat everyone with respect we will accomplish the goal. “Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win” (152). Habit five helps us with understanding each other. If we actually listen to others we will bond more. We can make more out of every conversation. We cannot just hear what we want to, we need to listen to their emotions. We also need to pay attention to their body language because, this helps us see what they are feeling. In habit six, Covey explains the way everyone in the world is categorized. We can be someone who tolerates diversity, and except others but keep to themselves. We can be the shunners, who do not like the idea of diversity at all, or celebrators, who like the idea of diversity and include everyone. To make relationships with everyone we should be celebrators. “We are all a minority of one” (186). When one synergizes, they are working together with everyone. True relationships come from coopaperation. Covey wants us to know that working together is good. For example, geese help each other a lot. They are always working together to find a better solution. He wants us to all act like
We need to renew ourselves daily. Covey wrote we need to take care of our heart, soul, mind, and body. To take care of the heart we need love, for the soul we need relaxation. For the out mind we need to gain knowledge, and for our bodies we need to stay fit and healthy. Habit seven is “Sharpen the Saw”. Taking care of ourselves is very important. Covey writes about our values. What are values? Values are the items we are proud of in life, and the people that we love. These people and items are true treasures. Just taking time to sit back, and look at all of the challenges we face, and to feel good about ourselves is amazing. We can however ask ourselves if we could do better. Everyone should say they can do better, however perfect is not an option. If we follow our values and the seventh habit it will make life easier, and happier. At the end of the day we need to be able to look at ourselves and smile. Covey wants us to take care of ourselves. “Abraham Lincoln was once asked “What would you do if you had eight hours to cut down a tree?” He replied, “I’d spend the first four hours sharpening my