The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens Expository Essay

This is a quote told by an English poet. A quote that tells you all about habits. In the book The Seven Habits they list seven habits that are: 1 be proactive, 2 begin with the end in mind, 3 put first things first, 4 think win-win, 5 seek first to understand, then to be understood, 6 synergize, and 7 sharpen the saw. These are the seven habits that Sean Covey came up with for his readers to follow.

Next Sean discussed paradigms and principles. In his words a paradigm “is the way you see something, your point of view, frame of reference, or belief. I feel that paradigms are very important to your self. Sean also writes about principles and in his text he wrote some different principles like honesty, school, parents, self, and friends. Most of these apply to me like honesty. I am very honesty. Sean said,” breaking principles always catches up to them at the end.” So if I do not follow my principle of honesty, then it will catch up with me, because I will most likely forget what my lie was to begin with.

In the private victory section there are three habits. They are: be proactive, begin with the end in mind, and put first things first. The one habit that I am the best at is putting first things first. This is the easiest for me, because all I have to do is do the thing that is the most important first. The habit that I have the most problem in is being proactive, but I am working at it. I will always say things like I’ll try or I can’t instead of saying I’ll do it and there’s got to be a way.

Next we have something called public victory. This means you have to develop a RBA (relationship bank account) for your self. The next there habits are: think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood, and synergize. In the book The Seven Habits there is a section of win-win, and in that section there is a comic strip that said it all. It went like this, “Hey, Tom, I just realized that I don’t need to out run the bear, I only need to out run you. Habit five though me all about my listing skills. I think this skill will follow me through out me life. Synergize I think is the most important habit of them all. I experienced this habit first hand everyday. When I went on a field trip to the Atlanta Botanical