1. “Defective Teens – We’re NOT!!!”
Based on: “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens"
by Sean Covey
FRESHMAN
ADVISORY

2. The 7 Habits of Highly Defective -- or -- Effective Teens
Habit 1: React.
Habit 2: Begin with No End in Mind.
Habit 3: Put First Things Last.
Habit 1: Be Proactive.
Take responsibility for your life.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind.
Define your mission and goals in life.
Habit 3: Put First Things First.
Prioritize, and do the most important things first.
Choice

3. Habit 1: Be Proactive Reactive I can’t… Proactive I will do it!
Listen to your language
Victimitius virus
Everyone has it in for me. It’s never my fault.
Proactive pays
Circle of control
Setbacks to triumphs
Reactive
I can’t…
Proactive
I will do it!

4. Reactive vs. Proactive Choices
Focus on the positive
Act, don’t react
Think before you speak
You can’t control others, only yourself
Focus on solutions and options, NOT barriers
Tell the person off
Start a fight with the person
Threaten the person
Spread more rumors
Chat about the person online
Feel sorry for yourself

5. A PROACTIVE attitude pays off because…
Focuses on what you
can do, not what
you can’t do.
We can only control how we respond to what happens to us!
it is not easily offended
takes responsibility for choices
thinks before acting
bounces back after the bad
finds a way to make things happen

6. Choices can get you results or consequences. Choose wisely.
BE PROACTIVE
Choices can get you results or consequences. Choose wisely.

7. Habit 2: Begin With the End In Mind
Crossroads
Who’s leading?
Create a vision for yourself…“Control your own destiny or someone else will!” says Jack Welsh
Discover your talents.
Three watch outs
Labels – don’t use them; don’t believe in them.
It’s All over syndrome mistakes happen. Get up-move on.
Wrong wall- Is the life I’m leading heading me in the right direction?
work
college

8. Begin With the End In Mind
Go for goal
Count the cost
Put it in pen
Just do it!
Use momentous moments.
Turn goals into action …
Turn weakness to strength…

9. Go for the goal!
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the hand of man can achieve” Napoleon Hill
“A goal not written is only a wish”. A written goal = 10x more power.
Once we commit fully to a task, our power to complete it will increase.

10. Set your goals… What can you do in the next 10 minutes?
What can you do today?
What can you do this week?
What can you do this month?
What can you do this semester?
Set both short and long term goals!

11. Momentum carries us…
KEY Moments: things with starts and finishes or beginnings and endings carry momentum.
A new school year or semester; A setback; A new look
Tough experiences often carry momentum.
Goethe said “Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” And in the famous words of Yoda,
“Do or do not. There is no try!”

12. Habit 3: Put First Things First
Pack more into life
Procrastinator
Prioritizer
Yes-man
Slacker
Use a planner (agenda!)
Prioritizer
Procrastinator
Slacker
Yes-Man

13. The key is to become a Prioritizer!
The Prioritizer knows when/which things are important but not urgent.
Seeks EXCELLENCE!
Takes a little more time for planning.
Avoids stress and burnout.
People who matter come first and life is balanced.
Can say no with a smile.
Resists peer pressure and comes to be respected for it.
Results - control of life, balance, high performance.

14. Put First Things First Courage zone Vs. Comfort zone
Fear and decisions
Rising after falling
Hard moments
Peer pressure

15. Remember… Adapt daily: be flexible, you may need to rearrange things.
One of the few things that cannot be recycled is wasted time. On her deathbed
Queen Elizabeth the First
wished “All my possessions
for one moment of time.”

16. Ingredients of Success
Never let fear make our decisions. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Success takes discipline.
Develop your OWN mission statement and FOLLOW IT.
I took the road less travelled by…

17. Hope
We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America,
there has never been anything false about hope.
~President Obama
So be sure when you step
Step with care and great tact-
And remember that life’s
A great Balancing Act.
And will you succeed?
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)
Kid, you’ll move mountains
~Dr. Seuss