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The 7 Habits of
highly Effective
Teens
By Sean Covey
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Habit 3

Put First
Things
First
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Putting First Things First

is all about Will-Power
and Wont Power

Will Power:
The strength to say Yes to your most
important things

Wont Power:
The courage to say no to less
important things and to Peer Pressure
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Packing more into
your life
Have you ever packed a suitcase and noticed how
much more you can fit inside when you neatly fold
and organize your clothes instead of just throwing
them in?
The same goes for your life.

The better your organize yourself, the more youll be

able to pack in more time for:
Family
Friends
Yourself
Your first things
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Where do we stand?

Habit 1:
You are the driver, not the passenger

Habit 2:
Decide where you want to go and draw
a map to get you there

Habit 3:
Get there! Dont let roadblocks knock
you off course
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Important - Urgent

Important: Your most important things,

activities that contribute to your
mission and goals

Urgent: Pressing things, in your face

things, activities that demand
immediate attention
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The Time Quadrants

IMPORTANT
NOT IMPORTANT
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Quadrant 1:
The Procrastinator
There will always be Q1 things that we cant
URGENT NOT URGENT
The THE

control and that must be done: helping a sick

PROCRASTINATOR PRIORITIZER
- Exam Tomorrow - planning, goal setting
- Friend gets injured - Essay due in a week

child, meeting an important deadline

- Late for work - Exercise
- Project due today - Relationships
- car breaks down - Relaxation
THE THE

Putting things off until the last minute: tests, car

YES-PERSON SLACKER
- Unimportant Phone calls - Too Much TV
- Interruptions - Endless phone calls

repair etc.
- Other People's small problems - Excessive computer games
- Peer Pressure - Mall marathons
- Time wasters

Cant perform to your potential if you are

spending your time in Q1.
The results of too much Q1 are:
Stress and anxiety
Burnout
Mediocre performance

My mom always told me that I would be a

procrastinator
I replied, Just you wait.
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Quadrant 3:
The Yes Person
Q3 is characterized by trying to please other
URGENT NOT URGENT
The THE

people and responding to their every desire

PROCRASTINATOR PRIORITIZER
- Exam Tomorrow - planning, goal setting
- Friend gets injured - Essay due in a week
- Late for work - Exercise
- Project due today - Relationships
- car breaks down
THE
- Relaxation
THE Q3 is deceptive because urgent things appear to
be important but they are not (ringing phone)
YES-PERSON SLACKER
- Unimportant Phone calls - Too Much TV
- Interruptions - Endless phone calls
- Other People's small problems - Excessive computer games

Caves in to peer pressure because he/she like to

- Peer Pressure - Mall marathons
- Time wasters

be popular and they wouldnt want to stand out

The results of too much Q3 are:
reputation for being a pleaser
Lack of discipline
Feeling like a doormat

I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is

to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
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Quadrant 4:
The Slacker

Q4 is mainly about waste and excess

URGENT NOT URGENT
The THE
PROCRASTINATOR PRIORITIZER
- Exam Tomorrow - planning, goal setting

School and doing any kind of work is the last

- Friend gets injured - Essay due in a week
- Late for work - Exercise
- Project due today - Relationships
- car breaks down
THE
YES-PERSON
- Relaxation
THE
SLACKER
thing on their mind
- Unimportant Phone calls - Too Much TV
- Interruptions
- Other People's small problems
- Peer Pressure
- Endless phone calls
- Excessive computer games
- Mall marathons
The results of too much Q4 are:
- Time wasters

Lack of responsibility
Guilt
Flakiness
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Quadrant 2:
The Prioritizer
URGENT NOT URGENT
The
PROCRASTINATOR
THE
PRIORITIZER Q2 is the quadrant of excellence
- Exam Tomorrow - planning, goal setting
- Friend gets injured - Essay due in a week
- Late for work
- Project due today
- Exercise
- Relationships Looks at everything there is to do, prioritize,
make sure that first things get done first and last
- car breaks down - Relaxation
THE THE
YES-PERSON SLACKER

things last
- Unimportant Phone calls - Too Much TV
- Interruptions - Endless phone calls
- Other People's small problems - Excessive computer games
- Peer Pressure - Mall marathons

Staying balanced is important make time for

- Time wasters

yourself by dedicating time to exercise,

relaxation, family, friends, etc.
Learn to say no with a smile resisting peer
pressure appears unpopular at first, but people
come to respect you for it
The results of living in Q2 are:
Control of your life
Balance
High performance
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Big Rocks
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Big Rocks
What do the big rocks represent?
What do the small rocks represent?
What is it difficult to put the big rocks first in our
lives?
How can you ensure that you make your big
rocks a priority and keep them a priority?
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Whats next?

We all spend some time in each

quadrant, the key is to shift as much
time as possible in Q2

Shrink Q1 by procrastinating less.

Learn to say no to Q3 activities especially to
unimportant ones.
Cut down on Q4, slacker activities You dont
need to stop doing things you enjoy doing, but
you may need to cut down on them.
Spend as much time as possible in Q2
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Manage your time

Pick up a planner (Outlook)

Has a calendar
Space to write down appointments, to do
lists, appointments and goals
Plan weekly
Take 15 minutes each week to plan the week
Identify your main goals for the week
Block time for your main goals
Schedule everything else around your main
goals
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Plan Weekly

Identify your main goals for the week

ROLE GOALS
Student Get started on my english composition
Friend Jen's birthday
Be more complimentary
Family Take my sister to the mall
Call Grandma
Job get to work on time
Me Go to the concert
Write in my journal every night
SLO Meet with my team
Be a tutor on Monday
Be a Discipline prefect on Friday
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Plan Weekly

Block time for your main goals

ROLE GOALS Time

Student Get started on my english composition Tuesday night
Friend Jen's birthday Friday night
Be more complimentary All the time
Family Take my sister to the mall Sat. morning
Call Grandma Sun. afternoon

Job get to work on time

Me Go to the concert
Write in my journal every night
SLO Meet with my team
Be a tutor on Monday
Be a Discipline prefect on Friday
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To realize the value of One Year,

Ask a student who failed his or her AP exams.
To realize the value of One Month,
Ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of One Week,
Ask an editor of a weekly magazine
To realize the value of One Day,
Ask a daily wage laborer who has 6 kids to feed.
To realize the value of One Hour,
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of One Minute,
Ask a person who missed their train.
To realize the value of One second,
Ask the person who survived an accident.
To realize the value of One Millisecond,
Ask the person who won a silver medal at the
Olympics
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The Comfort Zone and the Courage Zone

Things I
enjoy doing
Safety
Things I
am afraid Comfort
of Zone
Things I Freedom Ease Adventure
never tried from risk
Risk

Hard Moments opportunity

Things that are
difficult
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Fear
Never let fear make your decisions
Afraid of competition
Asking someone out
Speaking in public

People who acted in the face of fear

Ghandi
Nelson Mandella
Susan B. Anthony

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take

Wayne Gretzky
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Q II Lifestyle
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Homework

Identify your biggest time

wasters

Identify in which quadrant you

mainly spend your time

Plan how you are going to

spend more time in Q2
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Our long
term vision
We can
Change the
and
world
"If you don't like
something, change
it. If you can't
change it, change
We will!
your attitude. Don't
complain."
Maya Angelou