7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

By Sean Covey

READING/REFLECTIVE SCHEDULE
Week 1:
The Set-Up
Pg. 3-28
Reflections on:
a. From reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, I
hope to be able to do?
b. The 7HHET can do what for me?
c. What is a paradigm? Would your paradigm change after
listening to others paradigm?
d. What is a principle? Create a t chart of principles that
are important to you on the left and why they are important
to you on the right.
e. Create you own personal wheel. What is your life centered
on and what are the things that you tend to spend your time
on? (Refer to pg. 25)
f. Reflect on the baby steps on pg. 28.
Week 2:
The Personal Bank Account
Pg. 31-46
Reflections on:
a. Complete 3 RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) without the
person receiving find out. How did that make you feel?
Refer to pgs. 35-36.
b. What have you done lately to exercise self-discipline? Draw
or write your answer.
c. Reflect on the baby steps on pg. 45-46
Week 3:
Habit 1-Be Proactive
Pg. 47-72
Reflections on:
a. What does proactive mean? Give an example of a proactive
choice youve made?
b. What does reactive mean? When and where do you tend to
be the most reactive?
c. Listen to your language. Is it proactive or reactive? List
some examples. Refer to pg. 51.
d. Reflect on the baby steps on pg 71-72.

Week 4: Part II Habit 2-Begin with the End in Mind

Pg. 73-104
Reflections on:
a. List some crossroads you will encounter in the net few
months?
b. What qualities do I want to develop in my life?
c. What contributions do I want to make to others and my
community?
d. What things will I need to have for the kind of future I
want?
e. Complete the Great Discovery on pg. 86-89?
f. Make a list of the most important things you want your
personal mission statement to include. Review the Great
Discovery and the previous question and write all of the
ideas that come to your mind.
g. Creat you own personal missiona statement. Refer to pg. 8182; 90-91.
h. Reflect on the baby steps on pg 104.
Week 5: 2 Part II Habit 3-Put First Things First
Pg. 105-130
Reflections on:
a. Where do you spend most of you time? Write down how you
spent your time yesterday. What took up most of your
time? Did the things that filled up your day matter most to
you? Where did you waste time? Where were you most
productive?
b. Create you own time quadrant and reflect on where all your
above activities fit in the graph. Refer to pg. 112.
c. Think of a time when you acted in the face of fear and took
a risk to move outside of your comfort zone. What did you
learn?
d. Under what circumstances do you need to step outside of
your comfort zone and exercise more courage?
e. What holds you back from moving outside your courage
zone?
f. How can you act more courageously?
g. Reflect on the baby steps on pg. 128.
Week 6: Part III
The Relationship Bank

Pg. 131-144
Reflections on:
a. How would you define public victory?
b. Describe to someone and write down how the relationship
bank account works and why it is important and what their
response was?
c. Reflect on the baby steps on pg. 144.
Week 7: Part III
Habit 4-Think Win-WIN!!!
Pg. 145-162
Reflections on:
a. Write your definition of win-win thinking. Once you have
your description, share it with a friend. Use examples from
your own life.
b. It is hardest for me to think win-win when ____________?
It is easiest for me to think win-win when _____________?
When I practice win-win thinking, I enjoy the following
benefits________?
c. Write about an experience where you had a win-lose
mentality. How did you feel about it? Would you do things
differently now?
d. Write about an experience where you practiced lose-win or
someone acted in a lose-win way toward you. How did you
feel?
e. List a specific situation that you may face in the next seven
days that will require win-win thinking? How will you prepare
yourself to think win-win? Later, record the experience as
it actually happened. Write what the experience taught you
about thinking win-win.
f. Reflect on the baby steps on pg 162.
Week 8: Part III
Habit 5-Seek First to Understand
Pg. 163-180
Reflections on:
a. When was the last time you tried walking in someone elses
shoes? What was the experience like-actually trying to
consider another persons point of view or idea before
sharing yours? Describe what happened and what you
learned?

b. Write your own definition of the following listening styles:

Spacing out, pretend listening, selective listening and word
listening. Also self-centered listening: judging, advising and
probing. Lastly what is genuine listening? Refer to pg 168171.
c. When do you have the most difficult time giving feedback to
others? Why?
d. If you genuinely listen to another person, what happens when
you then express your feelings, ideas, suggestions, or
opinions?
e. When was the last time you kept your thoughts and feelings
to yourself even though you really wanted to share them?
Why didnt you share them? How did you feel about it?
f. Now that you have analyzed your actions, what can you do to
improve your practice of the second half of Habit 5, then to
be understood?
g. Reflect on the baby steps of pg 180.
Week 9: Nov 26-30 Part III
Habit 6-Synergize
Pg. 181-204
Reflections on:
a. Name some synergistic relationships in nature, in your school
and in your home.
b. Some people love to be with groups of people. Some people
like to spend much of their time alone. How do you prefer to
spend your time? Why?
c. Some people are dreamers; theyre always thinking of new
possibilities, new ways of doing things. Some people are very
practical; they like to study the world and know how to do
things. Which type of person are you? Why?
d. Some people make decisions based on their feelings and how
they think others might feel. Other people make decisions
based on facts. How do you prefer to make decisions?
Why?
e. Some people like their lives planned out and scheduled.
Other people like to be surprised or just see what happens.
Which way do you prefer and why?

f. Write down an important issue that you, your community,

your school, or your family is facing right now. Organize a
group of 4 people to discuss the issue you chose. Think of
ways to improve or change the problem (solutions).
Together, decide which solutions will make the biggest
difference. Write your groups idea into an action plan for
change. Use SYNERGY to make it happen.
g. Reflect on the baby steps on pg 202.
Week 10: Part IV Habit 7-Sharpen the Saw Pg. 205-242
Keep Hope
Alive Pg. 243-246
Reflections on:
a. List all the things you want to do to sharpen your saw in
each of the four categories: BODY, HEART, SOUL, &
BRAIN.
b. What physical activities do you like to do? Are there
activities you havent tried, but would like to? Make a list.
c. What type of a plan can you set that will help you focus on
the nutritional elements of sharpening the saw physically?
d. To care for your brain is to sharpen the saw mentally. Make
a list of skills or talents you enjoy or might like to learn.
e. Caring for your heart is how you sharpen the saw socially and
emotionally. Look at it as a RELATIONSHIP BAN
ACCOUNT. Care for your heart by making deposits. Create
a list of how you can make deposits.
f. Write a thank-you note to ______ (Create a list and follow
thru)
g. Which of your relationships are the most important? Are
you making deposits into these relationships? What are you
doing? How can you improve your most important
relationships?
h. To boost your emotional well being, why not start your own
humor corner today? Write your favorite joke out and
share it with someone.
i. Caring for your soul is how you sharpen the saw spiritually.
The following activities will help you do this; meditate,
volunteer to read to a child for an hour or listen to inspiring

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music. What other activities do you enjoy that will help

awaken your soul. List them out.
Reflect on the baby steps on pg 242.
KEEP HOPE ALIVE!!!!! What does this means?
Did you meet your expectations? If you feel you didnt,
what do you need to do now?
What valuable things did you learn that you didnt expect to
learn?
How will you apply the 7habits in the next week? Month?
Year?
Did you share what you learned? How did it make a
difference?
How will you continue to share what youve learned from the
7 habits?