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Summary of Life Strategies for Teens in 365 Installments, January 3, 2002
This review is from: Daily Life Strategies for Teens (Paperback)
Life Strategies for Teens is a superb book. If you have to choose between this book and that one, go for that one.
On the other hand, if you would like to reread the key ideas in Life Strategies for Teens, this book is a reasonably good resource for doing that. You would, however, benefit more by creating your own set of notes about Life Strategies for Teens that emphasizes that is most important for you to focus on. If that is hard for you to do, you could use this book as an outline from which you could abstract a briefer, and more relevant personal outline.
Most of the entries are devoted to the 10 Life Laws:
1. "You either get it, or you don't." January 26
2. "You create your own experience." February 27
3. "People do what works." March 16
4. "You cannot change what you do not acknowledge." March 29
5. "Life rewards action." May 8
6. "There is no reality, only perception." June 2
7. "Life is managed. It is not cured." July 9
8. "We teach people how to treat us." August 29
9. "There is power in forgiveness." October 4
10. "You have to name it before you can claim it." November 15
A section on the challenges of sex and drugs begins on December 11.
As you can see, making this a calendar presents something of a problem. Buy the book much past January 1, and you will feel strange reading it unless you wait until 2003 to start. A better design would have been to let you start whenever you got the book, and write in your own dates. But obviously, you can just write in your own dates and start whenever you get it.
I thought the better pages were the ones with questions to answer. Unfortunately, there were a lot fewer of these questions than in Life Strategies for Teens. You can find lots of good questions, however, in the Life Strategies for Teens Workbook, which I also recommend.
Should you read this book? If that's your learning style, to glance at something each day to get a thought or two, yes. If that's not your learning style, refer back to the workbook questions instead -- one per day.
May you find processes that help you build the most helpful habits that you want to establish!
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Life Strategies for anyone working with teens, August 17, 2006
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I am a counselor at a behavioral school and I decided to use this book, along with the workbook, to do several group sessions with my students. As I started to read the book, I was amazed by how well written it was. The language used is perfect for their understanding and uses lots of references that teens can apply! Great to use for anyone working with teens or for a teen to use on their own!
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