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April 2010

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The 7 Habits of Mind

Of Highly Successful Teenagers

The Private Victory

1. Be Proactive

a. If I plan to learn, I must learn to plan

b. “Whether I succeed or fail shall be no man’s doing but my own.” Elaine Maxwell

2. Begin with the end in mind

a. Control your own destiny or someone else will

b. “Carpe Diem. Seize the day… Make your lives extraordinary!” Dead Poets Society

3. Put first things first

a. Prioritize, don’t procrastinate

b. “I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they had left earlier, they wouldn’t have to go so fast.” Steven Wright

The Public Victory

4. Think win-win

a. Everyone can come out on top

b. “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” Lily Tomlin

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood

a. Listen actively

b. “Listen or your tongue will make you deaf.” Native American Proverb

6. Synergize

a. Teamwork

b. Finding new, better solutions

c. Being open-minded

d. “Alone we can do so little, together, we can do so much.” Helen Keller

Renewal

7. Sharpen the saw

a. Renew yourself; mind, body, heart and soul

b. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John F. Kennedy

The choice is yours....
"Unwritten"

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten

NATASHA BEDINGFIELD

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