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• Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside?

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  Past, Thinking, Years

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.

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  Respect, Past, Two

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

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  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

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  Respect, Fruit Salad, Flavor

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Personal Workbook”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

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  Children, Communication, Thinking

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com.au.

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• These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

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  Real, Giving, Trying

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

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  Intelligent, Years, Sound

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.

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  Couple, Forever, Getting Back Together

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

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  Dad, Struggle, School

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• If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

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  Jobs, School, Dropping Out

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

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  Teenager, Thinking, America

  "Glenn Back Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how often I was teased.

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  Baby, Water, Faces

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

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  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.

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  Dad, Doctors, Ends

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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