10 Keys to Personal Power
Brian Tracey
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."Clarity is a quality that is important to have in life. It involves being clear and knowing what to do and knowing where you're going. Confusion and being lost isn't something that should be happening, what must happen is clarity and not get lost or confused but understand. Many successful people call clarity the antidote to anxiety, anxiety can lead to many negative turnouts. Clarity is something that must be provided in every person that truly wants to be successful. Many things can get lost in translation but clarity can fix and truly help out in life. Clarity can help anywhere it can help on getting a job, being in school, working, communicating, and just lots of stuff. Often times while working so hard we have lost sight of the things we worked so hard to obtain. This is when clarity comes in and helps see what has been lost and help you. Without Clarity everything is just so unclear and foggy, something that is unable to see and hard to focus on.
Key 2: Competence
"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."This is the ability to be able to do something very successful or efficiently. This is something that can be chosen to do and must be for every successful person. Life is all about being competence. The successful people decided to be competence, and that was their right move, to strive for competence and more success and experience. If you keep doing something over time over and over again, you're going to get used to it which makes you efficient. Sometimes doing the same thing doesn't give it the same feeling as deciding to challenge yourself and go for more so everything can be easy. Successful people decide to not do the same thing and decide to educate them self and go for more power to help them out. Overtime it becomes a skill and is very easy if lots of work and motivation is applied. Competence isn't something that is naturally given to anybody this is a skill that if wanting to be successful then it will be acquired. It is about doing the job properly and improving more and more day by day. Competence is seen as something with knowledge, cognitive skills, behavior, and improving.
Key 3: Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself “Is this the best use of my time?” before you start anything."Concentration is key when it comes to success. Being successful is all about focusing and sticking to what is key and important. Sometimes it might be hard to concentrate if there is lots of distractions happening, that's why it is important to find a place for concentration. Successful people ask them self "Is this the best use of my time?" when they're about to do anything, and that leads to their actions that will demonstrate their success. I am a student and for me the biggest key part in a student's life is concentration, we have to concentrate in assignments in homework, in every day of our life. Concentration is an important key for success it's when the time is right and new fresh ideas go in to place. Focus and lots of thinking is what makes up concentration. If a business needs more and better ideas then the whole company will need to focus and come up with ideas that will benefit. Concentration will improve mental effort and will improve success.
Key 4: Common Sense
- Train your mind
- think things through
- listen to your intuition
- learn from setbacks
Common sense is needed in every successful person's life. It's common for every person to have common sense some maybe better than others because they trained their mind. The more you focus on common sense the better the common sense will improve. It's an everyday judgement that uses the basic ability of perceiving, understanding, and judging. It takes time to understand things on the way it is seen, and that's when common sense takes u the information and does it's job of understanding. Common sense is something that's individual for every human being and should listen to what is their intuition. Successful people listen to what their mind has to say and most of almost all their success comes from their ideas and choices. Successful people just don't let setbacks take them down they learn from setbacks and try to make sure it won't happen again. Some people will just let the setback happen and not try to work on it and continue that way, but successful people will acknowledge their setback and learn. Common sense is important for everyone and will continue that way because it leads to success.
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 successful people who are set with creative minds and everything around them is seen as creativity. These successful people who are the most successful tend to ask more questions. They understand and see what must be understood more. Creativity is something that can be acquired by everyone as long as they know how to use it and create ideas in their head that will help them and others. Many of everything the world has was made by people with creative minds. I have a creative mind and over time I am increasing my creativity. Questions are important the questions lead to answers the answers lead to understanding and knowledge leads to success. That question that was ask no longer needs to be asked once the answer is obtained. The world contains tons of answers to everything and will continue containing the answer for the creative people.
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 key to being in contact with lots of people. People skills is important because successful people must know how the type of people they know act and what they expect. For successful people expectations are set high but for them it's easy if they been being successful overtime with consideration. There will be many relationships that will determine how much of success you are with people. The more you know the better you are, learning more and more knowledge and going after more is great and truly a way of being the most successful you can be."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."
Key 7: Consistency
"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."
Be consistent in your relationships, your 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.."
Be consistent in your relationships, your 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.."
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."
Commitment is all about being dedicated. Being dedicated to what you do is what makes you successful. Successful people are dedicated to what they do and they stay that way to reach more and more success. I stay committed to what I have to do in school and to many things in my life. It's one of the most important thing about success and that is being committed to success, this has to be and everyday thing not just for success but for life in general. I commit to my responsibilities, to my school work, to my relationship, to the people I trust, I'm committed to my life and the way I want it. I'm dedicated to my work and to what I do for success. I won't be able to have success and start my way to more success if it isn't for commitment. People will sometimes do something but won't really be committed to engage in it, which will just ruin them and not lead them to anywhere. Life is all about staying on task and doing the stuff you love that makes you happy and something you feel comfortable with. Success comes with commitment.
Key 9: Courage
"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."
Life is all about taking risk and being brave. If you just live in failure then that would leave to failure in life. Having courage is all about taking risk and try to keep going forward, can't just stay back and stay scared. Successful people take so many risk at everything and if they just failed then they wouldn't give up they would learn from where they had a mistake and advance. Successful people didn't let nervousness and other obstacles stop them they just went straight forward to see what will happen and it came out great. People just can't be intelligent and be scared or shy they have to have both without courage they are just considered a person with no courage and that leads to no success. Being scared to ask a question shouldn't happen, if the question is asked then that question will lead to an answer and that answer will lead to learning and understanding. Life will forever contain obstacles that will require courage to outcome them, and the more courage that is applied to these obstacles the more and more they be seen as obstacles. Courage can lead to improvement that definitely be a great thing to have through all of life and lead to more and more success. I have courage and through out time I will gain more and more courage through all the obstacles I will face that will make me more of a successful person.
Key 10: Confidence
"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again ."Confidence is the most important to have all these 10 keys are. The world runs on confidence everywhere. Confidence is what gives you strength and motivation. In the past I never really had confidence I was always scared but now I am really confident I came out of my shell and decide to start doing stuff that requires lots of confidence. I never would've really gain this confidence if it wasn't for this person that showed me I can have confidence, I gained confidence from this person and they never knew they gave me it. Day by day I get more confident and keep on trying but never give up. It's okay to fail it's okay to fall, what matters the most is how you're going to rise and not fall again. During this road to more success you will fall but it shouldn't stop, what should be happening after you fall is getting up. Always doing one thing over and over again, will built up confidence and it will be a thing that is simply simple and easy because you've done it so many times it doesn't challenge you. If some people don't just try to get up after they fall that's just not going to build their confidence it's going to just make them stay the same and throughout life they will progress unsuccessful. Success is taken one step at a time confidence makes those steps proceed forward.
Reflection:
These 10 keys will make a difference in my life and in many people's life. All of these 10 keys to personal power do provide power. All of these are in important not a single one of them use not important. Everyday that goes by I work hard to provide these 10 keys to everyday life. My favorite key of them all is confidence. Confidence is very important to have in life. I play soccer I come to school and when I enter the field or the classroom I tend to have the upmost confidence I have that will make me excellent on the field and in the class. courage is about not being scared, it's okay to be scared as long you tend to have the courage that will stop the freight. Commitment is important to everything, without commitment there is just no success to come after it all, must have the ability to reach success the way you want. Consistency depends on being a person who is dependable, who will finish work on time and will never be late and always ready to do work and finish work. Consideration determines people skills and having contact with everyone and knowing how to communicate. Creativity is what the world runs on and how ideas can make a miracle. Common sense is a skill that everyone requires but it determines what people think what they see and how they see it. Concentration is a big key that starts so many and ends many things with time.
