7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens: Habit 7: Part 2

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Part 2

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

3)  Heart: Always do what is right so your heart, your conscience, will feel peaceful. When you do wrong, your conscience will prick you create regretful sensations within your heart. When you do what you honestly feel, you won’t have any regrets. Your heart is your internal compass—it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives direction, even true north, your personal compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and paths you need to trod.

4)  Soul: Study scriptures and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your spirit needs spiritual food just like your physical body needs temporal food to survive. Pondering, meditating, and reflecting are excellent Soul-sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions in a diary or journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

Get into the habit of daily improving your body (physical fitness), you mind, your heart, and your soul.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement by Henry David Thoreau

Student Success Statement

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

- Henry David Thoreau

Reflection:

Goodness never fails because goodness helps other people, not hurt them. Goodness is what makes this world a better place and not a place where bad things happen. In order for us to have goodness in them, one must choose the right until there heart feels that it has done enough to have goodness inside. Feeling good inside of you is a very special feeling.

Student Success Statement by Ernest Hemingway

Student Success Statement

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what's right and what's wrong.

Reflection:

What happens to you when you choose the right? You get a good feeling in your heart that make you feel like a wonderful person. But what happens when you choose the wrong? You get a feeling of guilt inside of you that tells you you are not doing the right thing. We all must doing the correct things in order to feel like a good person. This statement is showing that feeling good is what you feel after you have done the right thing, while you feel bad after doing the wrong thing. If we keep on choosing the right, we won't have to feel any suffering. So stop doing the wrong and start doing the right.

Student Success Statement by Alfred, Lors Tennyson

Student Success Statement

"My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Reflection: 

This statement is true because the more heart you have into something, the more strength you have. Having a heart shows that you are nothing more than a good person. Strength comes when you have shown to others that you have a kind heart towards others. But if you have no heart, you have no strengths because you have not shown that you deserve the strength to be a good person. The bigger the heart, the more the strength.

Student Success Statement by Anon

Student Success Statement

"There is no set path, just follow your heart."

Anon

Reflection:

Many people believe there is a path they need to take in order to make their lives much happier, but there is only one path that person they must take, and that path is in their heart. Your heart only wants you to do what's right, and if you listen to it, it will lead you to a path of happiness. Your heart will always be there when you need it, and if you have a good heart, good things will come out of it.