Explores the adolescent years and draws on extensive research to offer teens practical ways to cope with such important issues as peers, parents, relationships, school choices, and the future.

Get in the habit -- Paradigms and principles -- The personal bank account -- Habit 1 : Be proactive -- Habit 2 : Begin with the end in mind -- Habit 3 : Put first things first -- The relationship bank account -- Habit 4 : Think win-win -- Habit 5 : Seek first to understand, then to be understood -- Habit 6 : Synergize -- Habit 7 : Sharpen the saw -- Keep hope alive!.