Quit? What Does That Mean?

After reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey and The Young Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews, I have found nine areas where typical teens are different from productive young adults. In these nine posts, I'll be explaining them and asking you to decide where you are right now and where you would like to be in the future.

Typical teenagers are quitters. But young adults have to persist to be productive. Decision seven is “I will persist without exception” (Andrews 142). At this part in the book, Michael is taken to a huge warehouse where he meets the angel Gabriel. There are all kinds of things in the warehouse: coats, shoes, bicycles, blankets, and cures for diseases. Gabriel says it is the place that never was. It's where they keep everything that was about to be invented or discovered, but then the person stopped having faith and trying, and it was never made (135). We must persist until the very end. When we start something, we don't stop until it's done. In the book we see Michael transform from a typical teenager to a productive young adult as he discovers these decisions and applies them.

• Do you quit or do you persist? What are some things you need to finish so they don't end up in the “place that never was”?

Coming up...If you aren't parenting your kids, who is?

Sources:

Andrews, Andy. The Young Traveler's Gift. Nashville, Tenn.: Tommy Nelson, 2004. Print.