The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: Personal Workbook (Updated for the Digital Age)

by Sean Covey

Overview

A hands-on companion workbook to the New York Times bestseller The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make, now updated to include new information about technology and how it affects teens today.

In The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make, Sean Covey gives teens the advice they need to make informed decisions that will lead to long-term success and happiness. He shares guidance on the big issues in their lives, such as how to succeed in school, make good friends, get along with parents, wisely handle dating and sex, avoid or overcome addictions, build self-esteem, and much more.

In this valuable workbook, Covey allows readers to practice and learn how to actually make those decisions with enhancing stories, exercises, advice, and practical wisdom that can be applied to real life. It also encourages teenagers to talk to their parents, their friends, and their role models about these important issues. This newly revised edition includes new material for the digital age and how social media and technology affects the 6 Decisions in today’s world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501157141
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	529,420
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Sean Covey is a business executive, author, speaker, and innovator. He is President of FranklinCovey Education and is devoted to transforming education throughout the world through a principle-centered leadership approach. Sean is a New York Times bestselling author and has written several books, including the Wall Street Journal #1 business bestseller The 4 Disciplines of Execution, The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make, The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which has been translated into twenty languages and sold over 8 million copies worldwide. Sean and his wife, Rebecca, live with their children in the Rocky Mountains.

Table of Contents

The 6 Big Ones: The Choice Is Yours 1

The 7 Habits Crash Course: They Make You or Break You 5

Decision 1 School: I'm Totally Stressed Out! 29

School Checkup 30

Sticking It Out 32

Surviving and Thriving 36

Finding Your Voice 43

Off to College 46

Decision 2 Friends: So Fun … So Fickle 55

Friends … So Fun … So Fickle 56

Friends Checkup 57

Surviving the Everyday Ups and Downs of Friendships 58

Making and Being a Friend 65

Peer Pressure 68

Decision 3 Parents: How Embarrassing! 81

Parents … How Embarrassing! 82

Parents Checkup 83

The Relationship Bank Account 84

You're So Annoying 87

Closing the Gap 91

When You Have to Raise Your Parents 95

Decision 4 Dating & Sex: Do We Have to Talk About This? 103

Dating and Sex-Do We Have to Talk About This? 104

Dating and Sex Checkup 105

Intelligent Dating 106

The Four Great Sex Myths 116

Love Waits 117

True Love 120

Decision 5 Addictions: It's Not Hard to Quit … I've Done It a Dozen Times 127

Addictions Checkup 129

Three Brutal Realities 130

No, It's Not Just About You 132

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but 133

Striking at the Root 136

Decision 6 Self-Worth: If Only I Were Better Looking 149

Self-Worth 150

Self-Worth Checkup 151

The Social Mirror and the True Mirror 152

Character and Competence 158

Conquering Your El Guapo 174

Stick to the Code: It's Worth Fighting For! 181