Seven Habits of Highly effective teen

1. Be Proactive: take responsibilities for your life
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first thing first: do the priority thing first
4. Think Win-win
5. Seek First to understand then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw

The Five Steps of Goalsetting

There are five steps of goalsetting:
1. State your present situation: "I'm getting too many C's in my freshman courses."
2. Write a measurable statement of your goal or objective: "I will attain a 3.0 average by the end of my freshman year."
3. Identify what you need to do to attain that goal. Think about all the activities, materials, resources, costs, or people involved, and consider any obstacles you must overcome.
4. List the activities neccessary for you to carry out your plan of action and reach your goal in a professional, operational manner.
5. Decide at which points you are going to review your progress.

Planning

Planning is the key to effective time management. To understand the role that planning plays in your life, take a moment to rerun the activities of an average day. As the images flick through your mind, ask your self:
- Do you start the day behind?
- While you may have a good idea of what you want to accomplish, are you actually able to accomplish everything, or do you end most days with many incompletes?
- Do you feel fragmented rather than all together at the end of the day?
Planning is the key to putting order into even the most fragmented life. Say you decide to try getting ahead one week by completing several reading assignments and starting a term paper in addition to attending classes.

The way to change your habits

To change your habits, remember the following:
1. You must have a new habit to replace an old one.
2. You must be vigorous in your follow-through, practicing the new habit everyday.
3. If you tell the world what you're up to, you're more apt to effect the change.
4. As you see good results, it gets easier to persevere.

Time management

College is a great place to change the way you think about and use your time. For one thing, you're on your own. There's no one to tell you what to do or when to do it. For anther, if you don't get organized, you may not survive. Time cannot be bought or sold. I must be spent; it can't be saved. Time can't be lost or found. The only variable you have is how you choose to spend those 86,400 seconds everyday.