Becoming Your Best
The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
1. Be true to character
Reflection: This means that you should never lie about who you are or how you are. You should always stick to what you like and never try to fit in or be forced to do something you don't like. It also means that you need to be true to who you are to many people including yourself. As in saying what you like and expressing yourself in ways that many others wouldn't. Such as doing things you like that are unique and to also show your likings too.
Quote: "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I will put this into my daily life by expressing how and what I do to express my life. As in I won't be a liar of who I am or I want try to do what others do in order for them to like me.
2. Use your imagination
Reflection: To use your imagination it could lead to great things in your life and in the way you are. It could lead to better things that many others may not know. It could also lead to being friendlier with others and that could lead to great relationships in your life.
Quote: "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward
I will apply this to my daily life by adding it to the way of how I am with others and the ones I love. It will also change the way I think in many ways. It can also change the way many other people think in their way.
3. Apply the power of knowledge
Reflection: If you have the power to apply knowledge to everything you do then it can change the way one thinks and the way others think. It can also change the way you act as well. As in you can have several ways of answering things or responding to stuff. It can also be meant to have you to think in many different ways rather than the only way you think.
Quote: "Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power." - Horace Mann
I will apply this to my everyday life by adding it to the way I think and also the way I am with other people. I will also add it to anything I write and how I do everything with other people and the way things with other tasks.
4. Never give up
Reflection: To never give up it means to never the option to have to pass something or to have the option to fail at something. You should never give up because if you do it could lead to bad things. Even maybe to worse things as if you never gave up. To give up is to have your final moment which no person should ever have.
Quote: "Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't." - David Boreanaz
I will apply this to my daily life by adding it to everything that I do. Also how I will act upon challenges and different things in order to never fail and to never give up on thins that I care about.
5. Find peace and balance
Reflection: To find peace it is to have an open mind and to have no hatred in the world for anyone. To have balance is to have everything in its place. It is to make everything safe and to have peace in the commotion. Also how you are towards everyone and how you are with your friends.
Quote: "Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
I will put this into my daily life by adding it to the ways of my friends and also to my family to add peace into my life and also the way I way I am with others.
6. Live the Golden Rule
Reflection: To live the golden rule you need to have set goals in order to have a rule. It is a rule which you follow in order to have the sense of guidelines and vision. You will need a golden rule because of the way you act towards your goals and the way you are towards other goals. It would set a good point-of-view for yourself and towards others.
Quote: "Try, try, try and keep on trying this rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything." - W. Clement Stone
I will put this into my daily life by applying it to the way my goals are in my notebook. Also to have a sense of guidelines in order to complete my goals so I can have a better life.
7. Build and maintain trust
Reflection: This means that you will always be truthful so people can trust you. In that order you will have good friends that you too can also trust. This can also lead to having the best of friends to do the fact that you always told the truth in order to keep the trust in your friends and in others. This can lead to having good conversation skills and also to having very good trusting skills in others and with your family too.
Quote: "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." - Henry L. Stimson
I will put this into my daily life by applying it into my friends and my family. I will also almost never lie in order to have a better understanding of the way my friends and my family are.
8. Quick to listen slow to wrath
Reflection: This means to have an open mind towards others and to never have the option to have criticize them in the beginning. This also means that you should have to criticize anyone because of the way they are or the way they think. Just as to never have to think of someone differently because of what they tell you or what they are thinking about.
Quote: "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
I will put this into my daily life by adding it to everything that I say and do. Such as applying it the way I think of things and also the way I talk to other people in order to communicate with them and with others.
9. Lead with vision
Reflection: This means to have set a goal and know how to do that goal in order to complete it. It also means to have a sense of what's going in order to lead. It means to have a sense of reality as to what's going on with your goal or your plan. It also means that you need to know what to do if you are set to lead something even if it's something you don't know how to do it.
Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will put this into my daily life by adding it to school and my goals. I will also put it into my everyday life in order to have a sense into what I am doing.
10. Manage with a plan
Reflection: What this means is that you should always have a plan and you should always be prepared in order to proceed with your goal or whatever you are doing. It would show how you are with planning and also the way you are with other people. It shows the way one person is and how that person is with the way they live and the way they are in life.
Quote: "Failing to plan is planning to fail." - Faith Hill
I would put this into my daily life by adding to the goals i have in my book and to other goals I have in life. I will put it into the way i live and also the way I am as a person so I can be a more prepared and life-ready person.
11. Do what matters the most
Reflection: This means that what you do should have the example that it is necessary in your life and it would benefit you. This also means to not choose something that would change your life forever or that would cause you to alter your life in anyway. It means to do what is right and to never regret it because it is something that you want to do and that you weren't forced too.
Quote: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
I will put this into my daily life by adding it to the way by how I think of things. I will also apply it to the way I think of my goals and if they are important or not.
12. Be accountable
Reflection: This means to always know what you are doing and to always take part of what you are doing. It also means to have sense in what you are doing and if you did it wrong than take blame for it and don't put the blame on somebody else. It could also mean to always have a plan as in something or someone to know what you are doing and to not have to lie in order to save yourself.
Quote: "A man is accountable to no person for his doings." - James Otis
I would put this into my daily life by adding it to my plans and the other goals I have in my life. I would also add it into the way I think of plans and the way I make plans and to always take charge of what I am doing and to never blame someone else.
