The 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"
Once we get near the end of high school most students must choose were they are heading next. We all have a goal in life that we are working hard to get at. The more we see that dream and the more we work for it the closer we are to having the dream become real. Not having a goal yet is OK maybe you dont have something in mind to do yet that's fine but open your eyes before it's too late for if you dont find you goal you will be doomed to have a job you hate.
Key 2: Competence
"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."
Working hard always opens up doors for people which is why lots for kids work hard from the start for there first day of school. Working hard pays off in the end because more and more opportunities open up and choosing one is all you have to do. Bigger and better opportunities come when you work harder and soon you wont have to work as hard.
Key 3: Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself "Is this the best use of my time?" before you start anything."
When having something to do plan out how much time you think it will take for you to finish it. Sometimes things come up and you want to or have to those things that come up this is why you plan out free time. When am at home and I want to do something but I have lots of homework to do I plan out what I can do in a few hours how long it will take me and then set my plan. I know sometimes things don't work out and things back fire this can happen so once that happens stop and plan out again so it wont back fire.
Key 4: Common Sense
- Train your mind
- Think things through
- Listen to your intuition
- Learn from setbacks
When choosing things we always have to use are common sense. We have to make the smart dissensions by using are common sense. Common sense is a big part of our daily life for we always have to make dissensions be it big or small we make them. Common sense is the reason people pick wrong dissensions or right dissensions.
Key 5: Creativity
"Except the fact that every human being is a genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions."
Creativity is something that people always forget about. Creativity always helps make the person with it question more things about life helps them come up with ideas. Without creativity we wouldn't have things we use today. Without someone thinking outside the box we wouldn't have computers we wouldn't have smart phones or cars and many other we use in daily life. Creativity can be overlooked sometimes just look at Steve jobs everyone thought that he was crazy with his ideas but never gave up and if he did we wouldn't have iphones and all that other stuff he made
Key 6: Consideration
"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine your 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 a day, within 5 years, you'll be the best educated person in history."
Consideration is something lots of us do I myself consider many things daily examples for these things are should I do my how and if not what would happen. That is just one example of the things that I consider on the daily. Consideration can help make people's lives better we can consider to do things in life like learn a new language and if we follow through with it we can have a better life in a way. We always consider what's to come or what path to follow everyday consideration is a good thing and we should use it more.
Key 7: Consistency
"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."
"Be consistent in your relationship,your family,friend,your boss,your work. Be the person that people can depend upon. That if you say you'll do something you do it.."
Being consistency is when people can rely on you when they need help. Weather it be a friend or your family you should be consistency about them because you may never know who needs your help. This can also go the other way around the people you know should be consistency with you because like they always say what goes around comes around.
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"
Being committed to something in life will help you success in that one thing but it will be hard and you might want to give up but dont being committed to something helps you get it done. It's a good idea to be committed to not only one thing but many other things not only big ones but small ones as well. Any commitment is a good one so dont be scared to have some but remember it's going to be hard to keep them so always push it to get them done.
Key 9: Courage
"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life"
Courage is something lots of people lack when it comes to goals. If i'm honest it's something that I lack for my goal because my goal has to do with going up to a person and just say hi. The lack of courage could end up killing the goal I have. So this is why courage is something people should have lots of it will help you with a goal you have trust me if I can do it am sure you can do it. Don't let you goals pass you by because you never know when that chance will happen again
Key 10: Confidence
"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again"
Confidence some people could see it like courage but really they are two different. Confidence is when you believe in what you're doing and you do it without second guessing yourself while courage is kind of like trying to do something for example go up to someone you look up to and talk to them. Confidence is really hard to have most people these days lack is because they always second guess themselves. You always have to have confidence in what you do yes it's hard but if you do it like that you will feel the difference in whatever work you do when you have confidence
Reflection
All 10 keys can help you throughout your life one way or another even if you don't think so they will. A keys am useing that helps me is Commitment,Confidence, and Courage. Each of these are helping me get to a goal I have in mine and they keep me going because I remember why am commitment to this goal and I no matter what people tell me will be confidence in the goal because I have the courage to keep believing I myself. I will keep using these keys for other things as well and I hope that they will help me get to my goal.
