7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

4. Think Win-Win                                                                                                      Teens can learn to foster the belief that it is possible to create an atmosphere of Win-Win in every relationship. This habit encourages the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a mutually beneficial situation. Your teen will learn to celebrate the accomplishments of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and tough all at once. I won’t step on you, but I won’t be your doormat either. You care about other people and you want them to succeed. But you also care about yourself, and you want to succeed as well. Win-Win is abundant. It is the belief that there’s plenty of success to go around. It’s not a matter of who gets the biggest piece of the pie. There’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet.                                                                Win-win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of thinking Win-Win is the good feelings it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill you with negative feeling.                                  Win-Win will fill your heart with happy and serene thoughts. It will give you confidence. Even fill you with light. Think Win-Win or no deal.

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Ten Tips for Student Success St. John’s University

Ten Tips for Student Success                               St. John’s University

1.   Attend your classes. Remember in the words of Woody Allen ‘Seventy percent of success in life is showing up’.

2.   Know your faculty. Make sure you know who your teachers are, when their office hours are and how to contact them.

3.   Make sure the faculty knows you. Sit in the front of the classroom. Participate in class discussion. Consult with your teachers during office hours.

4.   Use a daily planner. Note the dates of exams, assignments, term papers, ect.

5.   Be organized. Prioritize your responsibilities. Manage your time. Remember everyone has the same 168 hours a week, only some of us use them better than others.

6.   Know your campus resources. Visit your Academic’s Dean Office regularly. Become familiar with the services and programs offered by the Counseling Center, the Freshman Center, the Career Center, the Campus Ministry Office and the Students Life Office.

7.   Take care of your health. Get enough sleep. Eat well-balanced meals. Exercise regularly. Make informed and mature decisions about alcohol, sex and drugs. Visit the Health Office as needed.

8.   Work only as necessary. Try not the exceed 20 hours during a school week. If possible, work on campus. Apply for financial aid and loans if you need them. Manage your expenses very carefully.

9.   Get involved in campus activities. It will help you learn valuable skills, expand your social network and enhance your self-confidence. Seek out opportunities to apply what you learn in the classroom.

10.                     Keep your eyes on the prize. Clarify your goals. know why you are in (high school or) college in the first place. Vizualize you success on a daily basis.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

For teens, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn’t any walk in the park, either. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide “a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily.”

How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life- changing decisions. As a parents, you are responsible to help the, learn the principals and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life.

While it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, “teens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say,” Convey says. So practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential.

Convey himself has done well by following a parent’s example. His dad, Stephen Convey, wrote the book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful people, which sold over 15 million copies. Sean’s a chip off the old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung  is a more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them:

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Successful Students

Successful Students

7. . . . Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

          If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. . . . talk about they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Graduation

High School Graduation

It feels good to graduate. Also it is a accomplishment to your family.

Successful Students

Successful Students

5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no. 4). Why do you they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting time?

6. … take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time , also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Successful Students

Successful Students

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students …

1.   … are responsible and active. Successful students get involved to their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participates in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being lead. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep, or, you can actively listen, think, questions, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs on class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.   … have educational goals. successful students have legitimate goals and are motived by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desire.

Ask yourself these questions; what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly.

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Study for Multiple Exams

Study for Multiple Exams

My strategies for written assignments: Everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of research before I ever think about writing. I then organize my research then sometimes prepare an outline before actually writing. I always print out the paper and come back to it the next day and reread it. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give my eyes a break from it, and if I just wrote it I think it looks perfect. But if I look at it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors or phrases and sentence I just want to reword.

How I succeed in team projects: Never assume someone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

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Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 2

My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of test or subject. For me, any type of math is exceptionally difficult so I had to spend extra time on that. I would go back through the homework problems focusing on the problems that I had extra difficulty on. Many times I would ask the teacher for any additional study materials they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times focusing on what were key focal points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take the terms and apply them to an example or create different questions on the concepts focused on throughout the semester.

My time management secret: I always always carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show what each event on my calendar is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is school, orange is work, blue is for appointments, and green is for my sorority. Although I use white-out frequently, I can see in bright yellow that if I have that project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it on [the pervious] Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

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Work together

Work together

Part 1

I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do his work. I don’t like having to pick up the slack, but I will if I know that my grade will be harmed otherwise. My greatest academic success was in my first semester when I had to write a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I had ever been assigned and I was a little scared. Also, it was the first paper where they were like, here you go, just write about something, but it could be anything from the sky is blue to hypnotism. I wrote mine on hypnotism. I worked on this paper for weeks and weeks. Every night I would be doing research or writing. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up just being under 12 pages but it was full on information. I turned it in and when I got it back a week or so later, I had received the first a+ of my college career. All my hard work had paid off because I got a grade I deserved. I was really happy and proud of myself.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again.”

Etienne de Grellet

What this statement means to me is that as long as you live for we will only be on this earth once and to make the most of it even though there’s people out there that just want to hate just because you are doing something with your life. Also this means that if you do good in front of a lot of people like show people that you don’t just worry about getting your work done and focus on something different people will remember what you did.