The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
October 22, 2010 by admin
The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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WITH COURAGE AND HEART, YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL!
Everyone wants to be successful—and surely you are no exception. After the massive success of Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles, thousands of requests came rushing in to develop the most important success strategies for today’s teenagers. Your calls have been answered.
Jack Canfield, cocreator of the famed Chicken Soup for the Soul series, has teamed up with successful author and young entrepreneur Kent Healy to design a fun and engaging book that offers the timeless information and inspiration to help you get to where you want to be.
The Success Principles for Teens is your road map whether your goal is to become a better student or athlete, start a business, make millions of dollars, or simply find guidance and direction. The principles in this book always work, if you work the principles.
This is not merely a collection of ‘good ideas.’ This book includes 23 of the most important success strategies used by thousands of exceptional young people throughout history. With the right tools, anyone can be successful. This book will give you the courage and the heart to get started and get ahead.
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Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
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Now in paperback! Here is the book that updates the rulebook, giving parents the training and skills they need to transform their teenage children into strong, confident, productive adults.
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Review by Soapsuds for The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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The authors of, “The Success Principles for Teens” could have titled their book, “The Success Principles for ALL.”
I came across their book by accident and after reading several passages, I added it to my collection of books. The authors have done an excellent job in putting across the theme of, `…taking full responsibility for everything you do, think, and say. The book doesn’t tell you how to live your life. It does provide the reader with instructions on how to achieve a better and happier YOU. According to the authors, “This book contains what [they] call the timeless `ingredients of success.’ Just like there’s a recipe for your favorite dish, there is a recipe for achievement too.”
Their book consists of twenty chapters. At the end of every chapter the authors include a “My-to do-List.” An example of the list after the first chapter is as follows:
1.The Kids on the Block”Realize that the person in charge of my life is ME. I am accountable for the quality of my life.
2.Search for the facts and look at things as they are, so I can improve them. Then create a new vision by seeing things as I’d like them to be.
3.Eliminate my excuses because (a) no one wants to hear them and (b) all they do is slow me down.
4.Acknowledge that blaming stems from denial and doesn’t accomplish anything because no matter how much I blame things outside of myself, blaming won’t change me or my circumstances.
5.Realize that I can change anything and everything simply by doing or thinking something different. Understand that it’s not what happens to me; it’s how I respond that matters. And how I respond is completely up to me.
6.When I ask myself a different question, I will trigger a different response, which will, in turn, create a different outcome.
7.Remember that results don’t lie. The easiest and fastest way to find out if something isn’t working is to pay attention to the outcome I am currently getting. [based on the equation E + R = O; Event + Response = Outcome]
8.Pay attention to alerts or signals that I get from other people or my intuition. These are often signs that can help me prevent unwanted consequences later on.
9.Keep in mind that I have everything I need to get the results I want.”
The contents of the book are challenging, fast and easy reading. Best of all, however, once you start reading you don’t want to stop, or put the book down. The reader, more often than not, will say, “I never thought of it that way.” Or, “That really makes sense.”
The contents, even though, directed to Teens, can definitely be helpful to adults as well. It is never too late to learn and practice how to take full responsibility of one’s life in order to be more successful and happy. As the authors say in one of their many side, and inspiring notes “Surround yourself with the best, and you’ll achieve more than the rest.” The last chapter’s side note states: “Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.”
I strongly recommend, “The Success Principles for Teens” to all Teens having a difficult time in life. To adults, and to the young at heart who feel they have missed something in their lives. “The Success Principles for Teens” is also excellent reading for Social Workers, parents, teachers, school administrators, to the clergy, and in particular, to everyone who wants to improve the quality of life.
Review by Matthew Egan for The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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This book is great for the practical steps to take to achieving what you want. I really like all the real life stories incorporated into each chapter, it gives the reader a better understanding that fits your daily life. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
Review by Kara Bluntach for The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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Teens will definitely relate to this book. Healy and Canfield have done an excellent job in writing about the things teenagers need and want to know about succeeding in life. The book is filled with real-life examples, amusing illustrations, and space for writing one’s personal challenges. This book is like a mentor for teens.
Review by K. Thomas for The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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This is a must read for teens and young adults.I bought it for my 17 year old and I wish I would have had it for my other children when they were teens.
Review by Debra F. Mccoy for The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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I know the book says for TEENS, but why wait????
My granddaughter’s birthday is in July. Facing 10 and the next grade and struggling somewhat through the end of the last semester, I wanted her to have a view of the ‘big picture’ that she would be ready to take on the challenge of the critical years to come.
This book is about empowerment. Helping a child form their own opinions and allowing them to mature without encumbering them with mixed messages during a difficult time.
I have only been working with her a month, but she now understands WHY she WANTS a clean room. She has already developed some of her OWN goals and is even forming ideas about what she would like to be when she grows up.
Since the book is written by peers, it gives kids tools and examples in their own language.
She has come to understand that class projects are not something to be done casually, but with consideration and forethought.
Even MORE important is the sense of SELF she is discovering and, as an amazing side benefit, HAPPINESS.
Maybe they should have called this Stop the Mope, Learn to Cope…. I DID read the book WITH her to help her feel more empowered and teamed up with an ally.
I also figured this would be the best way to PREPARE ME for the changes she would get from this book.
Ready for a re-birth? Make this book a family event and grow together.
Review by Professor Donald Mitchell for Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
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Before reading this review, you should know that this book contains language and subjects that would cause it to exceed an �R� rating if it were a motion picture. These vulgarities, sexual references, and violence are essential to the book�s content. The author also apologizes for the need to employ them. If your teenager had a serious case of the flu, you would be sympathetic and helpful. When the same teenager acts in ways you disagree with, are you inclined to be unsympathetic and challenging? Dr. Bradley argues in this intriguing book that your reaction should be very similar. Both are usually natural occurrences of body dysfunctions from which your teen will recover. Although that may sound like a psychological metaphor, Dr. Bradley points out that research with MRIs shows that the growth of the corpus callosum (which coordinates cross-brain functions) and development of the prefrontal cortex (which civilizes responses that the �old brain� stimulates) are both occurring during the teenage years. Until those brain developments are more complete, your teen will react in bizarre ways that she or he will be unable to explain. I found that way of thinking about teenage behavior to be fascinating. My own description of the teenage years experienced by our children was that boys� behavior generally went downhill until age 13 when it bottomed out, to begin gradually improving thereafter. For girls, the decline in behavior seemed to begin around 13, and started to improve after age 20.Dr. Bradley points out that teens have always been like this. So what has changed? �We�ve created a world dripping with sex, drugs, and violence and plunked our temporarily insane children in the middle of it.� Parents often treat their teens as though they can handle it. �The fact is that cannot handle �it� and they know this.� �Teens left on their own as small adults not only . . . [make serious mistakes], they become depressed and rageful in the bargain.� Dr. Bradley�s descriptions of the increased exposure to these influences on television, at home, in school, and with friends will leave you convinced that we have a more toxic environment for today�s teenagers. He cites many case histories and statistics to make his points very compelling. The solution is for parents to change, and become a more positive influence on their teens. I was especially moved by his observation that parents need to stop mourning for their younger, happy, well-behaved child who will not return any time soon. He offers ten commandments for being a good parent:(1) Behave and think dispassionately; (2) Listen well and support emotionally;(3) Say little in a pleasant way;(4) Take the time you need to make an appropriate response;(5) Forget your personal pride in finding a response;(6) Avoid being physical, even friendly gestures can be annoying to teens;(7) Apologize for anything you have done wrong;(8) Accept the identity your teen is trying out;(9) Be true to your own beliefs; and(10) Remember that all this will eventually pass.The book offers excellent guidance on rule-setting and enforcement that are similar to what worked well with our now grown-up teens. The book also has sections on how to deal with common problems like privacy, angry teens, drugs, sex and dating, family problems, discussing legal versus illegal drugs. You are also given a sense of what is normal and abnormal behavior related to acting out, depression, eating disorders, and suicide risk. For any hint of abnormal behavior, get professional help fast (apparently 19% of teens have given serious thought to how they would commit suicide, and the depressed teens are not the ones most at risk). You are also given good ideas for how to get teens to professional help. One of the best parts of this section is pointing out how two parents should cooperate (if you and your spouse are together) and single parents can best cope…. I particularly liked two final pieces of advice. �It turns out love is the magic, after all.� �Keep your sense of humor!�After you finish reading this book, I suggest that you think about where your own behavior as a teen was irrationally impulsive. Dr. Bradley cites a horrible night of misbehavior that he had as a teen. I know I gave into my impulses in various occasions. Now imagine how you would have liked your parents to respond while this was going on, both with and without the house of cards falling in on you. Those recollections may be your best guide to how you can improve, and earn even higher trust and respect from your teen.Support emotional messes and illnesses as generously as you support physical ills!
Review by RLF for Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
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Get the book and read it… Memorize it and practice Dr. Bradley’s suggestions until they become your first reaction to the teenage craziness around you. I don’t say this casually. I say this because I know, for a fact, what Bradley says works. It works when nothing else seems to and when you are absolutely certain you have no idea where that ex-child, now crazy person, came from. Less humorously…his suggestions work when you are desperately close to watching your son or daughter become a statistic. It works when nothing else has and, believe me, if you are at this point in his or her life, nothing else might. Simply put, Dr. Bradley saved my son. Now, he will say that I did, and I may have been the one who was mouthing the words and acting the part, but the words were his and the role was his, both borne from years of sensitive and insightful counseling of parents and their teenagers. I know. I sat on the couch across from his. He watched and listened and I was hysterical. He made the same suggestions (quietly and dispassionately!) to me in my insanity that he shares in his book. He pounded them into my head and I became convinced of a few things: my son was crazy and I was his anchor. It is a few years later and my son and I are emerging from the insanity of those years, but I keep the book close by and I read and reread his words and I hear them echo and I vow always to follow them: “dispassionate cop” “short sentences, few syllables” “apologize (me, not my son).” Of course, I sometimes fail, but teenagers have a generous way of providing more opportunities to practice. I knew I had been given one of those chances and succeeded when I responded calmly, and dispassionately in a short sentence of few syllables and my son said, “Mom…stop that, because…it…it is….working.” Bradley’s knowledge in this area is broad and deep, his suggestions are easy to understand, his book is poignant, clear, and frantic-parent friendly. His humor is readily evident and heartening. Reading the book is almost as good as sitting in a session with him…seriously. Read it seriously. Follow it seriously. It works…seriously. Thanks, Dr. Bradley.
Review by Deanna Johnson for Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
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I’ve been a long-time Amazon customer and this is the first time I have felt absolutely compelled to write a review. I have a 17 year old son, and I wish I had read this book 5 years ago! The book is written in 3 parts – Part 1 on teens and the issues in their lives, Part 2 on parents, and Part 3 on strategies for dealing with those issues. (He even includes a section on internet obsession – a big issue in our house.) When I finished reading this book, I felt so hopeful. The author provides a guideline for staying sane while dealing with the craziness, and at the same time maintaining a connection with your kids in a way that fosters strength, love, compassion, and most and best of all – mutual respect. Not a small feat, and he does it with a warm sense of humor to top it off. I would have given this book more stars if I could!
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Our daughter was absolutely a delight! She’s beautiful inside and out, makes straight “A’s,” liked to hang out with her father and I, had special days with just me where we’d just hang together, at HER request, loved to read, hated boys or talking on the phone; it was amazing! I had already imagined her high school years, homecoming queen, valedictorian…I found out last month that she’s been sneaking out of her room and has had sex with her boyfriend…at 14 years old. She dresses so strangely, hardly speaks to us, wants to “die” over the “dumbest” things. I felt like I wanted to die, to tell you the truth. She is my “baby,” younger by 10 years than her next sibling, and the light of my life. Although we’ve gone for counseling and things have changed a bit, I still was raging inside…at her, at god, at my husband, I couldn’t seem to get a grip on this. Me, who believes all things are exactly as they are meant to be, couldn’t find peace and acceptance in this. Finally, a few days ago, I asked the angels or “someone” to please help me. That day I went to the bookstore and “for some reason” found this book. It has changed my life. It’s still not easy but at least I realize I’m not alone, I haven’t lost my mind, there isn’t anything I could’ve done differently, it’s just that she’s a teenager.I recommend this book to everyone, whether you’re having trouble or not, it will help you understand why teenagers act the way they do. I only wish there was an audio version so we could listen to it in the car, I know it will take my husband forever to finish it. Good luck to you all!
Review by Eric for Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
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This book offers much insight into the teenage mind. Being an average teenager myself, reading this book really helped me understand, well, Me! I was astonished by the wisdom offered by Dr. Bradley. I will warn that this book is for parenting but can be used as a guide for the MATURE teen too. This is a well organized guide to becoming a more educated parent for your teenager! Dr. Bradley helps us see that the parents and the teenagers, are all fighting the same battle, those dreadful Teenage Years. I highly recommend this book. “Yes Your Teen is Crazy” expands and updates one’s mind in the scary realm known as the teenager. Buy this book!