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. 

Halloween 

This year Halloween was OK not one of my best Halloweens but it was pretty good. I was Jack skellington form the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas". People keeped asking if i was Sia a singer which bugged me lots but I was cool with it. I had on a white wig and some face paint for school not much because the school said no face paint so I just painted a black smile on my face and once I got home I tool a rest and then painted my face all while. I was pretty happy with what I did this year maybe I'll cosplay once I start working who knows only time can tell. I have a plan already on who I might be for next year but ill just have to wait and see. 

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 

Habit 1: Be Proactive 

"Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first. It says, "I am the captain of my life. I can choose my attitude. I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny, not just a passenger." 

It is true we do have the power to make are own destiny we choose what we want to do we choose what we make of are life. The power is in us that make are destiny fun and to make it a happy one but sometimes things happen in life and we can't help but be a little sad but its up to us to get out of it. Really we all have the power to do something we just need to find it and stay on are path to are destiny. We are on the driver seat so we get to go where we want to go.

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind 

"Control your own destiny or someone else will." (Jack Welch)

"When you know where you intend to end up,you know where you are now" (Covey)

Think about where you are now and what your goal is and keep it in mind all the time. Having it in mine helps you keep going and the tasks you do along the way while you do them having it in mine helps you no go on the wrong path. I have a goal in mine and I have a plan in my mine on how am going to do it. I keep doing what I do knowing and remembering my goal helps me keep going. This is a good way to keep motivated on what we do everyday it works for me so maybe it could work for other people

Habit 3: Put First Things First 

"Organize and execute around priorities"

Taking control on your life is something you really have to do because if you let others take control for you then you could end up somewhere you don't want to be. Are life should be left in are hands
not others we know where we want to be and it should be up to us to head the way we want. The things we want to do should be what we aim for while the things we want to do now should be put on hold if it hurts the things we put for first. Everyday we will choose things that might hurt what we put up first so we have to make sure that we choose what helps the first thing.

Habit 4: Think win-win

 "Think win-win or no deal"

 We always have to keep are first goal in mine when we do something. If what we do is not a win for are goal then we shouldn't be doing it. If it is a win for are goal then we should. Its are to keep a goal in mine while we choose things in are daily life but in the end when we get to are goal we put first we would maybe do that
same for another goal we have in mine.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood 

"Diagnose before you prescribe" 

You have to understand yourself and what your doing so people could understand you. With understanding yourself and finding your way people would see what you want to do and it would become clear to them that you know what your trying to do. They will understand you and they wont just see you and think this kid doesn't know what there  doing with there life or where there heading. 

Habit 6: Synergism

"The whole is greater then the sum of its parts (1+1=3)"

Doing something alone is a bit harder to do then doing something with someone else. Yes sometimes people want to work alone and they fine it easier but when it comes down to a big project having a helping hand can work out in the end. Doing something so big like that by themselves can make the person stress out but knowing that you have a helping hand doing some of the work for you takes some of the stress of from whatever your working on.

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

The Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional

We all need a refill on ares in life but sometimes we forget a place to refill on and we never really have all of them full. We have to refresh are self's to have all of are energy do the things we do 100%. We can still do things with some of the ares unfilled but we wont feel are best. Its also unheathly sometimes for these areas to be week an example would be the mind area. This area to be very low could be unheathly because maybe your stress out other things this is why you should take sometime to refill it so you can be less stress out.

  

Portal 2

Am going to be talking about the second game because I like this one better then the first one don't get me wrong the first game is grate but I really love how they hide the backstory to the game in those easter eggs. If you really want to get the story down about the game well good luck we don't have that much backstory but the comic which tells us about ratman which is someone who used to work there till Galdos killed everyone off with gas on bring you kids to work day. You play as Chell just like the first game only you find your self back in Aperture Science but its all run down then before we dont really know how long Chell has been a sleep all we know is that its been a very long time since the last game. Now we must again have to fight Galdos who is alive once more but this time we have wheatley who is a personality core we helps us on the way but in the end her turns on you. Galdos then who is stuck in a potato yes a potato helps you to stop wheatley and in the end we are free once in for all but there still so many questions that need to be answered we can only hope the 3 game comes out soon.

How to Remember Names 

So most people forget their friends at times not because they don't care but because sometimes it just splits are mind. Now here's a tip I use to remember peoples name its to rhyme it with something or add it to something. Lets say you have a friend name Amber will you could use alert after it and you have Amber alert and every time you see them you can remember there name like that. Now there are so many ways to add someones name to something that its endless and that's what helps the most. All my friends names I use this little trick so I could remember the names a lot faster. There are other ways you can remember peoples names but this is just one little tip I would give you. 

 

Mad Father RPG

Mad father is a RPG indie horror game in where you play as a little girl Aya who is about to sleep when she hear someone in her house and before she knows it her house is over run by the dead who her father has killed in his lab. As she try's to get to her father who is down in his lab she is send running the other way for the dead want to kill her. This game has such a good story to it that when you get to the end you dont see the big plot twist coming. Mad father has 4 or 5 endings each having to do with what you pick near the end of the game. Not only that but the music of this game is so good I think that all RPG games have suck good music one of the best parts about playing them well that and the story. I could go on and on about the story behind mad father but really if you want to know about it play it your self. Also this game really reminds me of another RPG named Ib which is another of my favorites.  

How to Win Friends and Influence People 

Six Ways to Make People Like you. If you want people to like you.......

Rule 1:Become genuinely interested in other people.  

1) "Do this and you will be welcome anywhere

2) "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you"

3) "Ask questions to other people, questions that they would enjoy answering" 

Liking everything that a person likes doesn't make you there friend same goes got asking about them no. If you want to be friends with someone then you need to have a good bond with them not liking everything they like that helps but really if you want to be friends with someone then just be friends with them. Yes asking about what they like helps become better friends but really I think that you go up to them first then ask them about the things they like.

  

Rule 2: Smile

1)"Actions speak louder then words, and a smile says, "I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you."

2) "You don't feel like smiling? Then force yourself to smile."

3) "It creates happiness in the home, foster good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends."

Smiling is a good way to tell someone "Oh you make me laugh or I

like you" but making yourself smile seems like such a stupid idea. If you don't want to smile don't it won't hurt there feeling. Smiling doesn't mean that your friends just try to make a bond first then later if they make you smile then smile you don't have to if you don't want to. I don't think that.

Rule 3: Remember names 

1) "A man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language."

2) "If you don't remember names, you are headed for trouble."

   We have all been there forgetting a friends name and trying all the way to remember them because there is no way we can ask them with out feeling back about it. One trick that I use to remember peoples names is to rhyme it with something or add it to something. One way I use this is with my friend Amber the way I remembered her name is by adding it to something like Amber Alert. So every time I saw her I remembered that and theirs her name. That's just one little tip I use to remember peoples name.  

Rule 4: Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves

1) "If you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener"

2) Remember that the man you are talking to is a hundred times more interested in himself and his wants and his problems than he is in you and your problems. 

Talking about the person you want to be friends with is a good way to become friends but you shouldn't always talk about them you should also talk about yourself and what you like not just about them. If they want to be your friend then they should also ask about you and the things you like. The thing you are doing they should also be doing as well. Being someones friends takes time and we need to get to know them better that's why it good to become a good listener so we can learn about them and maybe help them with there problems

Rule 6: Make the other person feel important--and do it sincerely

"The desire to be important is the deepest urge in human."(John Dewy)"Helping people feel important and appreciated works magic" 

If you want to be friends with someone then yah making people feel important in the friendship should be something we should do. Being a friend means being there for your friends and its very important to be there for them. If you get a person to feel very important in the friendship maybe they will end up being your best friend. The job of a best friend is making the other feel better about them self and have a good laugh with each other and always smile around them that's the job of a best friend so the more you make a person feel important the more of a chances you have for them being your best friend