The 10 Keys to Personal Power
Brain Tracy
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."
Lack of clarity
is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any
other single factor. That’s why we say that "Success is goals, and all
else is commentary." People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more
in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. This
is true everywhere and under all circumstances.You could even say that the three keys to high achievement are, "Clarity,
Clarity, Clarity," with regard to your goals. Your success in life will be
largely determined by how clear you are about what it is you really, really
want.Write and Rewrite Your Goals. The more you write and rewrite your goals and the more you think about them,
the clearer you will become about them. The clearer you are about what you
want, the more likely you are to do more and more of the things that are
consistent with achieving them. Meanwhile, you will do fewer and fewer of the
things that don’t help to get the things you really want.
KEY 2 COMPETENCE:
Competence is the point in your life when you become successful. Becoming competence is setting your life up with goals and being able to achieve them. Doing so can help you better yourself in life and doing other successful things.
KEY 3 CONCENTRATION:Concentration is a key. Concentration is the ability to focus without getting distracted by any thoughts, noises or anything else. Concentration helps you Control of your thoughts, gain inner peace, free your mind from annoying thoughts, improve your memory, improve your ability to study focus and conserve your energies, work more efficiently, improve meditation,
and much more. Some exercises to help you concentrate can be as little as counting the words in a paragraph more than once without getting distracted. After you have mastered a paragraph then move onto 2 paragraphs then move onto possibly a whole page in a book.
KEY 4 COMMON SENSE:
Train your mind
Think things through
Listen to your intuition
Learn from set backs
Common sense is something you need to have prior to concentration. Common sense is being able to do things one at a time.
Concentration is a state, in
which one’s whole attention is engrossed in one thing only, and being oblivious
to everything else. During concentration, the mind focuses on the object of
concentration, and only one thought occupies the mind. The whole energy of the
mind becomes concentrated on this one thought. The ability to command the mind and
control the attention is not common, and requires training. Most people lack
the ability to control their attention and focus the mind exclusively on one
subject for any length of time. They can’t command their mind to concentrate,
whenever they want to. However, concentration is not uncommon activity. It
happens almost everyday, to almost everyone, but it is more of a spontaneous
and uncontrolled ability.
KEY 5 CREATIVITY
"Expect the fact that every human being is genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions."
The most important
part of creative thinking is your ability to generate ideas. And
the greater the quantity of ideas that you generate, the greater the quality
your ideas will be. The more ideas you have, the more likely you are to
have the right idea at the right time. But generating ideas is only 1% of the
equation. Your ability to come up with an idea, to test
it and validate it, and then to implement it through creative
thinking and
execute it in your life to achieve results is the true mark of genius. Every
single time you originate a new idea, write it down, make a plan for its
implementation through creative thinking and then take action, you are behaving
like a genius. And the more you manage your creativity in this way, the
smarter you will become. And the smarter you will become, the more you will
achieve in every area of your life. Your future will become unlimited.
KEY 6 CONSIDERATION
"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine your success in life."
"Develop 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.''
They express
caring, concern, and compassion with their employees, treating them like
members of their corporate family and making them feel happy and secure in
their work. At the same time, they are absolutely crystal clear with regard to
tasks, outputs, and the responsibilities of each person. All employees know
exactly what is expected of them to do the job well.
The friendship factor is
developed with the three Cs: consideration, caring, and courtesy. These are the
normal behaviors of excellent managers toward the people who report to them.
Key 7 Consistency: To be consistent is a very good quality because
consistency means to always do something your best and to always keep it that
way. A person who is consistent never lowers there capability they always try
to do something at there best. They give it their all. A person who is
consistent is stable they know what they want and what to do in order to get
there. Although consistency is very hard for some people to get hard work and
always making sure you try your best to stay consistent will make it much easier
in the long run.
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."
The key to being committed is doing all the things you can actually say and do. Doing what you actually can and doing what is right is most likely doing what you are committed to can make you do all the things in life you actually wanna do. Being fully committed means all the time and dedication towards not only 1 thing, but maybe several things you want to do.
KEY 9 COURAGE:
"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."
There are two
parts of courage. The first is the courage to launch, to begin, to step out in
faith with no guarantee of success. This is an essential part of courage that
you can develop with practice. The second is the courage to endure, to persist
in the face of disappointment and temporary failure.
Your job in
business is to develop the courage to do whatever is necessary to fight the
fire, solve the problem, and get through the crunch. This is the hallmark and
the test of true leadership.
Crunch Point
Actions Identify some person, situation, or action that you fear;
resolve to confront it immediately and get it behind you. Whatever decisions
you would make if your survival was at stake, make them now. As Shakespeare
wrote, “Take action against a sea of troubles, and in so doing, end them.”
KEY 10 CONFIDENCE:
"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again".
The third thing
parents with happy and confident children do is speak to them in a certain
manner. The way you speak to your children is the single greatest factor in
shaping their personalities and self-confidence.The foundation
of self-confidence is self-esteem. Self-esteem is defined as how much you like
yourself or how much you respect yourself. When children are growing up, they
have no self-concept, they have no idea of themselves, so they take on their
whole beliefs about themselves from a young age by the way they are treated by
the most important people in their lives, their mother and their father.
So if you want to
have a great impact on your children, constantly feed them positive reinforcement.Never criticize
your children. Never blame your children. Never complain about your children. Always tell them
how wonderful they are. Always build them up. Always be understanding if they
have problems in life.Always tell them how good they are and how smart they
are. Do this so that
the most important person in their life is always laying down a psychological
foundation of self-esteem that will lead to the self-confidence they will need
when they grow up. Raising
well-rounded children can be tough especially in today’s hectic world… The
good news is, if you are a dedicated parent and provide them with the tools
they need to succeed, you will not only ensure they will be healthy, but that
they will also be happy and self-confident.
REFLECTION :
These keys benefit me by becoming a better person. Becoming a better person meaning obtaining a certain amount of confidence. The 10 keys to personal power is truly becoming a way or lifestyle for me. Involving these into my daily lifestyle is gonna change it to becoming a habit.
