The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens

by Sean Covey

Paperback, 2006

Status

Check shelf

Call number

J 158 Co

Genres

Nonfiction

All Topics

Collection

NONFICTION shelves (WHITE label)

Publication

Touchstone (2006), Edition: 1, Paperback, 336 pages

Description

From the author of the wildly popular bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens comes the go-to guide that helps teens cope with major challenges they face in their lives--now updated for today's social media age. In this newly revised edition, Sean Covey helps teens figure out how to approach the six major challenges they face: gaining self-esteem, dealing with their parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping with substances, and succeeding at school and planning a career. Covey understands the pain and confusion that teens and their parents experience in the face of these weighty, life-changing, and common difficulties. He shows readers how to use the 7 Habits to cope with, manage, and ultimately conquer each challenge--and become happier and more productive. Now updated for the digital and social media age, Covey covers how technology affects these six decisions, keeping the information and advice relevant to today's teenagers.… (more)

Local notes

1501-134

User reviews

LibraryThing member kmoynihan

Great book for teens to read. Also useful for parents, teachers, and other professionals.

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LibraryThing member jhagiya

This book presents guidelines for understanding and making good choices in six areas in a young adult’s life. This well written, easy to use, self-help book for young teens is a great addition to any library collection. It contains: colorful and humorous illustrations that highlight key points;

motivational stories; effective strategies to help young adults clarify and resolve challenges; and the effects of consequences for both good and bad choices. It also includes a helpful bibliography and indexes – subjects, themes are conveniently found so it is easy for readers to reference specific sections.

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LibraryThing member kimgroome

This book is of course more for teens, but a very good read for adults, especially adults with youth in their lives. Reminds you what they are going through - and a quick reminder of what you as an adult should be working towards to be successful.

LibraryThing member mscoopsyalist

Sean Covey teaches youth how to make good decisions in key areas of their lives through anecdotes, humor and sound principles in the very readable book. He builds upon the lessons from his first book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens, and goes further to show how those habits can be

utilized to make good decisions. If teens follow Covey's guidelines they will find themselves moving farther ahead than they believed they could without dragging a lifetime full of regrets.

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LibraryThing member MWFforJ757

(2006) (SELF-HELP INFORMATIONAL TEXT)

In this follow up to his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey presents what he says are the 6 most important decisions teens will ever make. Using humor, cartoons, movie quotes, examples from his own life and tips shared by

teens around the world, Covey presents teens with the challenge to make good decisions in all aspects of their lives.

This book is for teens and those who work with teens – parents, teachers, and youth leaders. In it, Covey shows that making good choices now can positively influence a teen’s health, wealth, and happiness in the future. The six areas covered consist of a choice, or series of choices, related to School, Friends, Parents, Dating and Sex, Addictions, and Self-Worth. For the most part, these are concepts that most teens already understand. What this book offers is a way for teens to actually apply them to their lives to yield positive results.

“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed: easy to get into but hard to get out of. On the other hand, once they’re in place, good habits are just as hard to break as bad ones.” Using these good habits to help make the 6 most difficult decisions of a teens’ life can make all the difference for their future.

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LibraryThing member ginawilliams

This book was written for a teenager audience in order to guide teenagers in learning how to make effective, appropriate decisions now that will shape their lives for the future. Covey divides his chapters by topic, focusing on providing teenagers with applicable, relevant advice and information

needed in order to make appropriate decisions. Covey supports his ideas with cartoons, graphics, and real-life stories. Because of the amount of information provided, this book may be best read by focusing on one chapter at a time. Highly recommended for high school students.

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