Habit 2 Begin With the End In Mind

Habit 2: Begin With the End In Mind Control your own destiny or someone else will

Bell Ringer: Be Proactive In your journal, draw a ‘T’ chart and write things you have control over and things you have NO control over in your life. I Can Control I Can’t Control

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Begin With The End In Mind Definition: Developing a clear picture of where you want to go with your life. • Deciding what your values are • Setting goals • Habit 1, Be Proactive, says you are the driver of your life • Habit 2 says, since you’re the driver, decide where you want to go and draw up a map to get there.

What does “Begin With The End In Mind” really mean? • We do it all the time • Blueprints for buildings • Reading the recipe before baking the cake • Creating an outline before writing a paper

Crossroads in Life • If you have an end in mind, it makes it easier to make decisions about the big things: • Do you want to go to college? • What type of guy or girl will you marry? • What type of friends will you have? • What kind of relationships will you have with your family? • Will you have sex before marriage?

What About Friends? • Friends can have a powerful influence on you • Hanging out with a group of friends that don’t have the same principles you have will make you guilty by association, even if you don’t do everything they do

What About Sex? • An important decision with huge consequences • The path you choose will affect your health, self-image, how fast you grow up, your reputation, whom you marry, your future children, and so much more.

What About School, Work, or Military? • You have decisions to make right now about your schooling. • Are you taking AP classes or have you even thought that far ahead? • What kind of job do you want? • What branch of the military do you want to join?

Take the Lead • If you don’t plan for your future, someone else will. • Who? Your parents or your friends • Ever not known where to go, so you followed the crowd and then discovered that the crowd didn’t know where to go either?

Homework Due Tomorrow • Interview a parent/guardian, older sibling, or adult that you are close with. • Ask them about one crossroad they had in their teen years. • Write one page entry in your journal about their crossroad, the choice(s) they made, and how their future was affected.