Friday, February 26, 2016

10 Keys to Personal Power

10 Keys to Personal Power
Brian Tracy

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Key 1: Clarity
"Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do or have in life. Have a sense of direction and know where you're going. If you do not have clear specific goals in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do."

Reflection: Clarity means of how sees their own future or others. In ways of having a plan for the future or guidance towards the future. Also to know what you are doing before you do it in order to not fail on the idea of doing the thing you want to do. To never give up is also one thing to keep in mind. To always have a clear and straight vision is always the safest way to learn how or what to plan for the future.

Key 2:Competence
"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."

Reflection: This means to never give up and to never stop heading to your goals. Also how one should never stop fighting for what they want. How to never give up in any way and to never be negative towards your goal. Also how one is towards their goals should always be positive and never give up on your goals. To always stay on task and to never be afraid to fail.

Key 3: Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself "Is ths the best of your time?" before you start anything."

Reflection: Always start to have time for the things you want and to never give up on what you love. You always need to have dedication to what you like to do and to always be confident of what you want to do. Also to never be negative to what you are dealing with and how you should always be positive in what you want.

Key 4: Common Sense

  • Train your mind
  • Think things through
  • Listen to you intuition
  • Learn from setbacks
Reflection: To have common sense is to know what to do in order to have knowledge. It is to do something without having thought and also knowing what to do. 

Key 5: Creativity
"Except the fact that every human being a genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions."

Reflection: Creativity is to have a lot of thought and emotion of how one person or one thing does something. It also means that you need to have a lot of imagination in order to create something or add on to something. It also means to have no sense of failure or giving up. To always stay positive of how one does their work and accomplishes it.

Key 6: Consideration
"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine you success in life."

"Develop the people skills you need to become a better communicator. Take courses in listening, speaking, etc."

"If you were to learn one new word everyday, within 5 years, you'll be the best educated person in history."

Reflection: If you take in the consideration of other people it will guide you to many great things in life. Seeing others point of view can change the direction of who you are or what you do. It is to be very knowledgeable of others theories or ways. To not have such a closed mind towards others. 

Key 7: Consistency

"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."

"Be consistent in your relationships. you family, friends, your boss, your work. Be the person that people can depend upon. That if you say you'll do something you do it."

Reflection: To be consistent you need to be very reliable in doing certain jobs and goals. To be very positive to your goal and never give up, that is being consistent. Also to be very open minded about what you do so that if you choose the thing that you like to do than you have more of a positive consistency rate.

Key 8: Commitment

"No success is possible without commitment. The ability to commit yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success."

"Become totally absorbed in your work. Be totally committed."

Reflection: To be committed is to be head first towards your goal. To be very true to what you want to have in life and to never give up and always settle for what you want. Also to be very positive about what you think in life and towards your goal. Also to never give up on your goal because if you do then it's not being committed to your goal.

Key 9: Courage

"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."

Reflection: To have courage is to have the sense of being able to do something in order to have a positive outcome or a negative one. It is to be sure of what you're doing or to hope that it comes out the way you want it. It is to have the courage to do what you're afraid of or having the courage of willing to do something you know will be a good or bad outcome.

Key 10: Confidence

"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again."

Reflection: The meaning of this one is to have trial and error in order to know what you're doing wrong or how you're doing it wrong. It is to never give up and to always have confidence in your self. To have the thought that if I give up it will lead to something that I will never experience. Also how if you have the confidence to do something then you have the confidence to do everything in your way and then you will never give up.

Reflection: I think that the 10 keys have helped me in the way I view life in my own perspective. How I think differently now than what I used to. I am using confidence right as a main key. I will incorporate these keys as to complete all my goals and making sure I don't give up.