My homeroom students actually listen to a audio-book of "The Winner's Manual" every morning for their 15 minute reading. When I first began my student teaching, my cooperating teacher was also in the process of having each of them fill out the "Block O of Life" goal sheet that he talks about. Talking with the students as I helped them to fill out these goal sheets was really a fantastic opportunity to get to know them. But more than that it was a great way for the students to begin internalizing their own goals. Being in an 8th grade classroom I quickly discovered that many of them weren't looking to far beyond the immediate future. The goal sheets really helped them to become a little more focused on how to begin organizing the steps they needed to make in order to get to where they want to be in life (for my boys, 98% are 100% sure they're getting drafted into the NBA at any given moment).

The book and goal sheet really are terrific resources to get students to think about how their actions now can affect their life at later points, whether in a positive or negative way.