The Power of Choice: A Teen's Guide to Finding Personal Success

There has never been a more challenging time to be a teenager. The world is expanding. You have more information and choices than ever before. The competition for your attention is fierce. Your worldwide social media connections have you concerned with the number of followers you have and how many likes you get. There’s pressure to keep up with all of it. It’s exhausting. It’s overwhelming. It’s stressful. It’s no wonder teens are experiencing more anxiety in their lives than ever before. This book was created to help you slow down, sort through the madness and figure out what you actually want in your life. It’s a guidebook and simultaneously, a gold mine of your thoughts, dreams, goals and life direction. The stories and exercises within these pages were designed to help you build habits that support you in reaching your goals. Some of the topics you will examine include what motivates you and why, how to build excellence into your daily routine and how to improve your relationships with those around you. You will also explore problem solving strategies and understanding decision-making options for creating your best outcome. Other subjects include how to deal with criticism, the importance of gratitude and how to change difficult situations into beneficial ones. Everything in these pages allow you to not only see things from your own viewpoint but, to broaden your perspective and see so many more possibilities. What you discover about yourself will be entirely unique to you. You’ll take away strategies for creating a life that makes you happier. The Power of Choice puts this within your control. And the best part is you can reuse this book over and over. The answers to the questions within it will change as you do. Ultimately these discoveries and the choices you make will help you create a successful life as only you can define it. Once you uncover what you really want, this book will guide you to develop practices that take you in the direction you want to go. In the end, your life is a result of the choices you make. Start making choices now that create your remarkable future. This book was piloted in the author’s classroom for two years prior to its publication. The students who experienced these stories and exercises were engaged and developed more productive life habits. Their personal success and gratitude for the experience was the ultimate motivation for these practices to be put into print. The future is sitting in our classrooms and around our kitchen tables right now. Their success needs our support. Thank you for investing in a stronger future generation. Read more