Daily Life Strategies for Teens
By Jay McGraw
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With Daily Life Strategies for Teens, Jay provides a day-by-day guide to life that will show you how to boost self-confidence, build friendships, resist peer pressure, and achieve your goals.
Packed with quotes, ideas, and inspiration, Jay McGraw's straightforward, insightful, and humorous guide gives you a road map for surviving and thriving in your teen years and beyond.
Using the techniques from Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's Life Strategies, his son Jay shows teens how to put the Life Laws into effect every day.
Take the steps to make your life the best it can be!
Jay McGraw
Jay McGraw is executive producer of The Doctors, as well as president and CEO of Los Angeles-based Stage 29 Productions. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ultimate Weight Solution for Teens: The 7 Keys to Weight Freedom; Life Strategies for Teens; and Closing the Gap: A Strategy for Bringing Parents and Teens Together. McGraw is a regular contributor on the Dr. Phil show and has also been featured as a teen expert on Larry King Live and the Today show. McGraw earned his law degree from Southern Methodist University and is a graduate of the University of Texas, where he received a BS in psychology. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Erica.
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Daily Life Strategies for Teens - Jay McGraw
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ALSO BY JAY McGRAW
Life Strategies for Teens
Life Strategies for Teens Workbook
Closing the Gap
DEDICATION
I dedicate this book with honor and respect for the fallen soldiers fighting under the banners of the fire and police departments of New York City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. I stand in awe of your dedication, courage, and sacrifice.
And to the men and women of the fire and police departments across America who risk their safety for ours on a daily basis.
Introduction
I have personally lived by and enjoyed the benefits of using the ten Life Laws for many years. I must, however, confess that I am most frequently reminded of Life Law #7, which states: Life is managed; it is not cured.
No matter how well you know the Life Laws or how strictly you intend to live by them, we all need a jump-start—a motivational kick—from time to time. The hardest part of incorporating the Life Laws into your life is overcoming old habits and getting unstuck.
Well, that is exactly why I have written this book, Daily Life Strategies for Teens—to get the ball rolling and to give you that little kick in the pants that I know I frequently need.
Whether it is motivation, inspiration, or just a quick reminder of what you are looking for, you have found it here. So, have fun with this book, and congratulations for taking that all-important first step toward creating a better life for yourself.
Always remember, work hard and have fun; it’s the only way to go.
January 1
To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.
—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
January 2
What are Life Strategies? Simply this: Plans for obtaining the things that matter to you in life.
January 3
Knowing what you don’t want in life is important because that makes it easier to identify the things you want to eliminate from your life.
January 4
Ask yourself these questions every morning while you’re contemplating getting out of bed:
What do I want?
What is it I want to do in order to make my life better?
What is it I want to do to feel that I’m living with some passion and some kick-ass excitement?
What do I want to add to my life?
What do I want to eliminate?
January 5
Do you think you’ve got the power to make big changes in your life to get what you want? Or do you think that because you’re not yet self-supporting and on your own that you’re pretty much stuck with what life gives you? I promise you, you’ve got a lot more personal power than you realize. You just aren’t yet aware of how to use it.
January 6
You cannot cram
for life.
January 7
Everything you will ever be, you are now becoming. It’s okay to live in the moment, but the choices you are making now are the building blocks for where you will be later.
January 8
In order to get what you want now and set yourself up for what you want later, you have to take charge of the things that you can influence, and you have to stop whining about the things you cannot. Start thinking about which are which.
January 9
We can bloom where we are planted. We can make our lives work right where we are.
January 10
Being a success and being a winner don’t just happen. But you can make them happen if you know the rules and learn to play by them.
January 11
You are in control of your life in many ways you aren’t yet even aware of. If you understand and use the