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  Aug 17, 2006 By Counselor Hope
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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Great Book!  Mar 29, 2009 By Jamey L. Ivey
I am a counselor and I buy these cheap on Amazon and give them to clients. They LOVE them a learn a lot from them! Great book for any teen! I reccommend the workbook also!!


Not what I thought  Jan 01, 2012 By Jaime L. Gratton "JG"
This book was not at all what I thought. I guess I should have done my research a little better. It turns out that this book had a spiritual/religious undertone to it that I had missed in the description. I had hoped to use this in a public high school classroom but had to think again. It is a good book but not what I had expected.


Inspire Reflection  Dec 26, 2011 By Francine Canin
I purchased this book for my classroom library. It is easy to read, with only one short selection on each page. The writing takes up perhaps a quarter of the page. In that, I was a little disappointed. On the other hand, it gives young people something to think about, without demanding a tremendous amount of reading. So, I recommend it for young people who are resistant to reading, but need more work in reflecting on the written word.

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