Friday, September 18, 2009

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Hey Guys! I just got done reading the Second Habit. It's called: Begin with the End in Mind.
This chapter gives you a description of you as a teen and it telld you about how almost every desision you make in your youth will effect your future in multiple ways. Like sex, your actions, language, and your education. All of it will decide thereputation you will bear in the future to come.

Thanx a bunch!
-Harrison
Wilkerson

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Hey guys! I just got done reading the First Habit lesson. (Confetti!) And it was awesome! And it shows about being proactive and how just your normal, every day talking can effect someone! It also told me about how you can either learn, or despair from your mistakes.

Thanx a bunch!
-Harrison
Wilkerson

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Hey guys! Harrison here. And I just got done reading the latest chapter of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens: Chapter 2. In this chapter, it teaches you how to have your own personal bank account. Not in a financial way but in life ways.
Like say you do a kind thing for another person, that would be making a deposit into your personal account.
In other words, the account of your reputation. There wasn't much else about it except that it taught you how to keep track of your reputation account.
Keep in tune tomorrow for the actual first lesson of the first habit. Be Proactive.

Thanx a Bunch!
-Harrison
Wikerson

The 5 Things You Need to Learn to do Business

Adapted from the article, "Aspiring Managers: Learn to Behave Like Adults" by Steve Tobak.

Become adept at 5 things: finance, selling, presenting, negotiating, and business communications.

1. Finance. I don’t care if you manage engineering, human resources, technology, sales, grass-cutting, or laundry-pressing, whatever, you need to learn about finance, handling money - making it and spending it. Why? Because that’s how companies are run and how business works. Period. Fail to learn this boys and any business you start will fail within a matter of months...guaranteed.

2. Selling. To sell your own ideas, products and plans to people to you know you have to learn how to open doors, help friends and potential customers and other business friends to make informed decisions, and close deals and make money.

3. Presenting. It’s hard to imagine your career or business going anywhere unless you can deliver an effective presentation. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t born with the presentation gene. Do whatever you've got to do to teach yourself the trade of public communication. I promise it pays off in the end.

4. Negotiating. Negotiation skills are critical to resolving conflicts, getting agreement among friends and business associates, and other key contacts in your business. Make sure, however, that you are negotiating with them in mind, more than yourself, according to the gospel-driven principles found in Philippians 2:3-4.

5. Communicating. Great managers are also great communicators; it’s a critical success skill. Unfortunately, they don’t teach you about business communications in school. Learn it well, including verbal and nonverbal skills, body language, eye contact and movement, etc.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Hey Guys! Harrison here! I just got done reading chapter 2 and it was all about Paradigms and Principles. Sean Covey (the writer of the book) says that Paradigms are like glasses. When you have good and bad Paradigms, they affect how you look at yourself and the world. And it also teahces you how to kick out your bad points of view and replace them with even mre of the good ones. Keep in tune tommorrow for even more descriptions of the book.

Thanx a bunch!

-Harrison
Wilkerson

Monday, September 14, 2009

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Hey guys! We had a mix-up in the schedule. so today I read the welcome to the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
In this book, I learned that life is not all about being a good person, it's about what makes you become a good person.
there wasn't much it tought me about after that. Like a said, there was a mix- up in the schedule, so we'll still be giving you more info about this book. So stay in tune!

thanx a bunch!

-Harrison
Wilkerson

Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective teens

Hey guys! Harrison here. Abd i'm here to tell you about the newest book I'm reading. It goes by the name of: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
This book contains information like no other about how a normal teenager can turn his life into a planned-out and organized success. Personaly, my dad, Rob Wilkerson, made me memorize the seven habits and I'll put them up here for you.

#1-Be Proactive
#2-Begin with the end in mind
#3-Put first things first
#4-Think win-win
#5-Seek first to understand, then be understood
#6-Synergize
#7-Sharpen the saw

I can't tell you what those habits mean because I haven't read then entire book yet, but keep a look-out for the latest definitions of the habits. They'll be up on the blog every 2 days.

Thanx a Bunch!
-Harrison Wilkerson