1. The Seed of Self-Esteem (Appreciate the value of yourself)
   “From self-love to self-worth

Lead with your hand. When you walk into a room always lead with your hand by offering a firm handshake. This gives you a feeling of self-assurance and indicates to others that you are confident in who you are. Make eye contact. Making eye contact indicates you are a caring person capable of holding the glass of another person. Offer Your Name First When meeting people, always introduce yourself by saying your name. Smile. A smile indicates there’s a light on in your window and that you are a caring and sharing person inside. Dress your best. Always dress your best—not necessarily in designer clothing—and take pride in how you look. It’s the outside of the package that draws people in. Sit in front. When you attend meetings, sit up front and be an active participant. Walk Walk with a spring in your step—a certain type of charisma and feeling about yourself. Use a positive explanatory style. Listen carefully to how people describe themselves, as that often tells a lot about how people feel about themselves. Do they say negative things? Do they make excuses? Always explain yourself with a positive explanatory style. Accept compliments. When you graciously accept compliments, you are accepting yourself for who you are rather than making excuses about yourself. Keep your self-talk positive. We are all our own worse critics. No eyes are as critical as our own. We don’t like pictures and videos of ourselves. There is no voice or set of eyes that has the power to discourage like your own. Look for the good in you, not the bad, and when you look in the mirror count your blessings, not your blemishes. Look at what you do well. When things aren’t going well, look back at the things you have done well. When we focus on what’s good about ourselves, we feel good about ourselves. When we focus on our faults, mistakes and weaknesses, we naturally feel poorly about ourselves.

1. 2. The Seed of Creativity“Releasing your creative energy"

Even those of us not in explicitly creative fields must come up with new ideas and insights in order to move ahead. How can we shake up the way we think? Creativity has been pegged to conducive environments, perfect collaborators, personality traits, serendipity, and even spiritual muses. While research psychologists are interested in increasing innovative thinking, clinical psychologists sometimes encourage patients to use artistic expression as a way to confront difficult feelings.

3. The Seed of Responsibility
   "Whatever we sow, we reap."

Being responsible means that you contributed to an event occurring, either by your actions or your failure to take action. Of course this could be a good or a bad thing depending upon the circumstances. If you have contributed to something positive happening, you may not struggle to take responsibility for your role; although some people do. Where you tend to see people struggle to accept responsibility is when things go wrong. Few people like to admit that they contributed to a poor outcome. However, being responsible means that you must step up and take responsibility.

4. The Seed of Wisdom
   "A large vocabulary--which implies broad, general knowledge--characterizes the more successful persons, regardless of their occupations.

Wisdom is one of those qualities difficult to define—because it encompasses so much—but which people generally recognize when they encounter it. And it is encountered most obviously in the realm of decision-making. Psychologists tend to agree that wisdom involves an integration of knowledge, experience, and deep understanding that incorporates tolerance for the uncertainties of life as well as its ups and downs. There's an awareness of how things play out over time, and it confers a sense of balance. It can be acquired only through experience, but by itself, experience does not automatically confer wisdom. Only now are researchers beginning to look into the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that transmute experience into wisdom.

Wise people generally share an optimism that life's problems can be solved and experience a certain amount of calm in facing difficult decisions. Intelligence—if only anyone could figure out exactly what it is—may be necessary for wisdom, but it definitely isn't sufficient; an ability to see the big picture, a sense of proportion, and considerable introspection also contribute to its development.

5. The Seed of Purpose“The gold mine in your goals”

By setting goals for yourself you are able to measure your progress because you always have a fixed endpoint. Take this scenario for example: David makes a goal to write a book with a minimum of 300 pages. He starts writing every day and works really hard but along the way, he loses track of how many more pages he has written and how much more he needs to write. So rather than panicking David simply counts the number of pages he has already written and he instantly determines his progress and knows how much further he needs to go.

6. The Seed of Communication

       “Reach out and touch someone

Being able to communicate effectively is the most important of all life skills.

Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. It may be vocally (using voice), written (using printed or digital media such as books, magazines, websites or emails), visually (using logos, maps, charts or graphs) or non-verbally (using body language, gestures and the tone and pitch of voice). Also having to learn many effective voice and trying to learn new ways into communicating.

7. The Seed of Faith“The power of positive believing”

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” ― John Lennon

8. The Seed of Adaptability

“Turning problems into opportunities”

But you can also learn to become more adaptable and to develop your ability to cope effectively with change. You can learn how to become adaptable through experience.  You might even have the advantage over others as you will have used your planning and organizing skills to change your behavior.

9. The Seed of Perseverance“The will to win is everything”

Perseverance is continuing to work toward a goal even if there is a delay in getting it, or a difficulty in achieving it. In this case, you set a goal for yourself and you worked hard for it. Whether you made the team or not, you persevered and you knew you tried your best. Sometimes we work hard and don’t meet our goals, but knowing we did the best we could do gives us a sense of pride and self confidence. If you had quit, not only would you definitely not have made the team, but you wouldn't even have had the satisfaction of knowing you tried your hardest. Instead of feeling the pride of having done your best, you would have felt the emptiness of not even trying.

10. The Seed of Perspective

“Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Having perspective is the way you view things. Seeing things in a different persons point of view can change the way you see things or how things happen.

Final Reflection:
 Write an overall final reflection in your Ten Seeds of Greatness post.  Include your deepest thoughts and feelings. Write what you commit to do to apply the ten seeds of greatness. 

I will use these 10 seeds of greatness throughout my life. I feel like the seed of perspective is the deepest one from all 10. This seed means a lot to me because it means to see how you things in life.

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

Barbara A. Lewis

1.Make a commitment to tell the truth.

2.Tell someone about your commitment.

3.Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.

4.Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.

5.Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.

6.Don't indulge in little white lies.

7.Watch out for silent lies.

8.When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.

9.Talk to yourself.

10.Treat yourself when you tell the truth.

These tips can benefit me into making me a better person so i can learn how not to lie. I will commit into telling the truth by actually telling the truth. I will have a conversation with someone about my commitment and how it is going. I will think twice before i lie. I can not and will not say anything that i do not  know 100% on because i can not switch words around. If someone i know tells a white lie i can not and will not judge them on it because white lies are okay. When telling a white lie i have to be careful of how i say it and when i say it. I have to talk to myself before telling any kind of lie and actually see if i can do it or go through it. Finally, when i tell the truth i will fell proud of myself and i can go home with any relaxation.

                                               Spring Break
MY SPRING BREAK CONSISTED OF ME DOING HOMEWORK, GOING OUT WITH MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY. ON MONDAY I WENT TO PRACTICE IN THE MORNING THEN GO HOME AND DID CHORES SHOWERED THEN NAPPED, ON TUESDAY I WENT WITH MY DAD TO GO PAY SOME THINGS THEN I WENT HOME AND SPENT THE WHOLE DAY WITH MY FRIED JOEY. ON WEDNESDAY I WOKE UP WENT TO PRACTICE FOR A BIT THEN I WENT TO THE BEACH WITH RAMIRO JOSELYN PRICILLA DAVID JAIR AMELY ESMERALDA BRANDON YAZMIN TO VENICE BEACH THEN TO SANTA MONICA. ON THURSDAY I WENT TO PRACTICE AGAIN THEN SPENT THE DAY WITH MY MOM. ON FRIDAY I WENT TO GO DO MY EYEBROWS THEN DID NOTHING ALL DAY. SATURDAY I WENT TO A BABY SHOWER THEN I WENT TO THE BEACH AT NIGHT WITH MY FRIEND DIANA CHUY AND VICTOR. THEN SUNDAY I WENT TO TO MY FAMILY HOUSE AND THEN SPENT THE DAY WITH THE,.

Pyramid of Success

John Wooden


The Pyramid


The 25 Building Blocks of the
Pyramid of Success

Block 1:  Industriousness
"In plain and simple English this means hard work. Very hard work. There is no substitute for very hard work when it comes to success."

 Most of what we do on a day-to-day basis is simply what we have to do to survive. Your job, your chores, your obligations to your family and the favors to your friends—that’s not hard work. That’s regular work. That’s your routine—the stuff that you and every other human being does every single day. Hard work is what you do on top of all that. It’s what you do after you’ve put in your eight hours, after you’ve cleaned your apartment, after you’ve kept all your appointments and followed through on all your promises. Hard work is above and beyond—and it’s the only thing that will push you above and beyond. That’s not even the end of the story. What makes hard work truly hard isn’t even the work itself. It’s everything else that you take on when you make the decision to work hard toward your goals. It’s the brutally honest self-evaluation, the tough personal sacrifices and the ever-lurking uncertainty.

Block 3: Friendship

"Comes from mutual esteem, respect and devotion. Like marriage it must not be taken for granted but requires a joint effort."

I believe there are various kinds and degrees of Friendship based on a wide range of appreciations. We may have an acquaintance with whom we are friendly because of a shared interest in politics or sports; another whose humor we enjoy, some may be golfing, bowling, or fishing buddies; perhaps we have an old friend from high school whom we haven't seen in 20 years. All are friends in different and good ways - but not in the way I mean Friendship. The two qualities of Friendship so important for a leader to possess and instill in team members are respect and camaraderie. To me these are the most noteworthy characteristics of true Friendship as it pertains to leadership. 

                                                   Block 6: Ambition 
                   The desire to achieve something, or to succeed, accompanied with motivation, determination and an internal drive.

Ambition describes those that achieve success based on their inner desire to do so and their belief in themselves. Ambition in itself may not be a key to success. Successful, ambitious people need both energy and goals to succeed. Someone with plenty of energy but no goals may find themselves pursuing one opportunity after another without success, wondering what it is that they are wanting out of life.
                                  Block 7: Self-Control

"Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgement and common sense are essential."

Self-Control is most essential for discipline and mastery of emotions. You cannot function effectively unless your emotions are under control. That is why I did not engage in pre-game pep talks to stir emotions to a sudden peak. Control of self is difficult when an individual is riled up with emotions. Careless mistakes are likely to occur. I preferred to create a gradually increasing level of both intensity and achievement rather than trying to create artificial emotional highs. For every contrived peak you create, there is a subsequent valley. I do not like valleys. Self-Control provides emotional stability and fewer valleys. I do not like valleys. Self-Control provides emotional stability and fewer valleys. Thus, I prized intensity very much- controlled focus and directed energy. Self-Control makes this possible

 Block 8: Alertness

"Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve."

is Alertness at the most intense level. Should it be any different with you? There is something going on around us at all times from which we can acquire knowledge if we have Alertness. Too often we get lost in our tunnel vision and we don't see the things that are right in front of us for the taking, for the learning. My favorite American hero is Abraham Lincoln. He had Alertness. Mr. Lincoln once said that he never met a person from whom he did not learn something although most of the time it was something not to do. But that's also learning and it comes from your own Alertness.

                                Block 9: Initiative

"Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it."

Initiative means having the courage to make decisions and take action. Simple as that. Keep in mind that we all are going to fail at times. You must understand this and not fear failure. None of us is perfect. But if you are afraid to fail you will never do the things you are capable of doing. If you have thoroughly prepared and are ready to give it everything you've got there is no shame if you fail - nothing to fear in failure. But fear of failure is what ofter prevents one from taking action - from using initiative.

Block 10: Intentness

"Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations.  Be determined and persistent."

I could say Intentness means determination; I could say it means persistence; I could say it means tenacity or perseverance. I will say it is the ability to resist temptation and stay the course, to concentrate on your objective with determination and resolve. Impatience is wanting to much too soon. Intentness doesn't involve wanting something. It involves doing something often for a very long time. The road to real achievement is usually bumpy and long, but you do not give up. You may have setbacks. You may have to start over. You may have to change your method. You may have to go around, or over, or under. You may have to back up and get another start. But you do not quit. You stay the course. To do that, you must have Intentness

Block 11: Sincerity
 Keeps friends

A quick examination of the idea of sincerity, the antithesis of bad faith, will be very instructive in this connection. Actually sincerity presents itself as a demand and consequently is not a state. Now what is the ideal to be attained in this case? It is necessary that a man be for himself only what he is. But is this not precisely the definition of the in-itself -- or if you prefer -- the principle of identity? ... If candor or sincerity is a universal value, it is evident that the maxim "one must be what one is" does not server solely as a regulating principle for judgments and concepts by which I express what I am. It posits not merely an ideal of knowing but an ideal of being; it propose for us an absolute equivalence of being with itself as a prototype of being. In this sense it is necessary that we make ourselves what we are. But what are we then if we have the constant obligation to make ourselves what we are, if our mode of being is having the obligation to be what we are?

Block 12: Adaptability
To any situation

You have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.

Block 13: Condition

"Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated." 

You must be in physical Condition, but you must also have mental and moral Condition. All three are components in this block of the Pyramid because you can't have one without the others. Weak mental or moral Condition precludes top physical Condition. Some observers felt that our players had top physical Condition. That was only part of it. They also had top mental and moral Condition. I reminded them, the players, of their responsibility to achieve Condition with this little rhyme:" There is a choice you have to make, In everything you do.
So keep in mind that in the end, The choice you make makes you. "If you make the right choices you will achieve Condition.

Block 14: Skill

"A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail."   

                 The range of Skills necessary for leadership, of course, differs from job to job and organization to organization. Those skills required to manage a small business differ from those needed to lead a Fortune 500 company, just as skills needed for coaching basketball differ from those necessary for coaching baseball. But regardless of the specific skills required in a profession, you must master all of them.  Mastery of skills requires learning and it is my opinion that great leaders are lifelong learners. They also take measures to create an organization that fosters and inspires learning throughout. The most effective leaders are those who realize it's what you learn after you know it all that counts most. Skill is located in the exact center of my Pyramid because it is at the heart of performance at a level of competitive greatness." 

Block 15:  Team Spirit

"A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all."

"The final block on the third tier- the center tier of my Pyramid- is Team Spirit. Initially, I defined Team Spirit as  "A willingness to sacrifice personal interest or glory for the welfare of all," but there was something in the definition that bothered me, something not quite right. What wasn't quite right was the word "willingness." When you stop and think about it- as I did many years ago- there is a profound difference between mere willingness and eagerness. A prisoner on a chain gang may be willing to break rocks to avoid punishment. But how eager is he? I wanted to work with individuals who were eager to do what was best for the group -our team- even at the expense of their own personal statistics or gain. Thus, in my definition I changed "willingness" to "eagerness".  And it's stayed that way for fifty years. Of course, we all want to do well and receive individual praise. That's fine if the praise comes because your 'individual' effort was something that contributed to the improvement or strength of the group, the team, whatever your team is: sports, business, family, or community. Praise that comes because of your contribution to the group is the kind of praise I prize. And so should you.

Block 18: Poise

"Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation."
Graceful and elegant bearing in a person.

Poise means holding fast to your principles and acting in accordance with them regardless of how bad or good the situation may be. Poise means avoiding pose or pretense, comparing yourself to others, or acting like someone you're not. Poise means having a brave heart in all circumstances. You'll know you possess Poise when you achieve what Rudyard Kipling described in his poem written a hundred years ago: "If you can meet Triumph and Disaster And treat those imposters just the same..."That's Poise: not being thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe because of outside events. 

Block 19: Confidence 

"Respect without fear. May come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective."

 "There is perhaps no stronger steel than well-founded self belief: the knowledge that your preparation is complete, that you have done all things possible to ready yourself and your organization for the competition, whatever form it comes in. This is Confidence.  Confidence cannot be grafted on artificially. Real abiding Confidence, like Poise, is earned only by tenaciously pursuing and attaining those assets that allow you to reach your own level of competency- the potential you have within. For me those personal assets are contained in, and provided by, the blocks of the Pyramid of Success that I have described previously. Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn into arrogance. Arrogance, or elitism, is the feeling of superiority that fosters the assumption that past success will be repeated without the same hard effort that brought it about in the first place. Thus, I have never gone into a game assuming victory. All opponents have been respected, none feared. I taught those under my supervision to do the same. This reflects Confidence, not arrogance. Arrogance will bring you down by your own hands. We see it happen all around us in all areas of life all the time. Success requires Poise and Confidence. Both are attained through proper preparation. Acquiring the personal characteristics and values of the Pyramid. I believe, constitutes proper preparation. 

Block 20: Reliability

reliability has to do with the quality of measurement. In its everyday sense, reliability is the "consistency" or "repeat ability" of your measures. Before we can define reliability precisely we have to lay the groundwork. First, you have to learn about the foundation of reliability, the true score theory of measurement. Along with that, you need to understand the different types of measurement error because errors in measures play a key role in degrading reliability. With this foundation, you can consider the basic theory of reliability, including a precise definition of reliability. There you will find out that we cannot calculate reliability -- we can only estimate it. Because of this, there a variety of different types of reliability that each have multiple ways to estimate reliability for that type. In the end, it's important to integrate the idea of reliability with the other major criteria for the quality of measurement -- validity -- and develop an understanding of the relationships between reliability and validity in measurement.

Bock 22 Competitive Greatness

Competitive Greatness is having a real love for the hard battle knowing it offers the opportunity to be at your best when your best is required. The great competitors I have played for and against, taught and admired all shared a joy in the struggle itself - the journey, the contest and competition. The tougher the battle the better. A leader must convey this to those you lead: a tough fight can bring forth Competitive Greatness. The hard battle inspires and motivates a great competitor to dig deep inside. That's why I relish the challenge a worthy competitor presents. You are tested. When properly prepared you will rise to your highest level and achieve Competitive Greatness.

Block 23: Integrity 
Purity of intention

consistency is about being the same regardless of the situation. For example, do you know of leaders whose mood changes by the day and make rash decisions on certain days, yet calm and engaging on other days? This would be an example of inconsistency of actions and outcomes. Consistency is a choice that we make as leaders every single day, even when the situation or environment is not great. If you just had an argument with someone before walking into your next meeting, consistency means that you will make a conscious choice to shift gears and release yourself from the negativity of the last conversation and not bring that to the next meeting

BLOCK 24 FAITH
 We shall arrive at a better understanding of the habit or virtue of faith if we have previously analysed an act of faith; and this analysis will be facilitated by examining an act of ocular vision and an act of reasoned knowledge. In ocular vision we distinguish three things: the eye, or visual faculty the coloured object, and the light which serves as the medium between the eye and the object. It is usual to term color the formal object of vision, since it is that which precisely and alone makes a thing the object of vision, the individual object seen may be termed the material object, e.g. this apple, that man, etc. Similarly, the light which serves as the medium between the eye and the object is termed the formal reason (objectum formale quo) of our actual vision. In the same way, when we analyze an act of intellectual assent to any given truth, we must distinguish the intellectual faculty which elicits the act the intelligible object towards which the intellect is directed, and the evidence whether intrinsic to that object or extrinsic to it, which moves us to assent to it. None of these factors can be omitted, each cooperates in bringing about the act, whether of ocular vision or of intellectual assent.

Pyramid of Success Final Reflection

1. These building blocks can benefit me into being a better character in life, and also make me want to succeed more.
 2. The building blocks that im applying now are 24 Faith and 19 Confidence.
3. The difference this makes in my life is something big because now i feel like i can do anything with faith as long as i keep my confidence.
4. I will have faith into doing my goals and also build my confidence to make them happen.
5. I will pass this information over to friends and family by explaining each building block and making them understand the concept.

                                     School Break Days 

 Over the break I went to my tournament games, spent it with family and also spent my holidays shopping. Some places i went was the mall, school, my aunts house, and my room. I dont think i met anybody during that past winter break. Some movies that i watched over break was The Secret Life Of Pets, War Dogs, Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas. During break i played in the Legacy tournament that was held here at school. Some CTR experiences was helping my brother with his vacation homework. Over break i didnt break i didnt read any books. Over break i didnt do any homework because i didnt get any. Over the break i went to sleep around the am hours. The break was good to me. 

                                      Class Evaluation
1. Some things i liked about this class is us having free time. Another things i liked about this class is us having to learn about ways to make our lives much more happier and successful. I enjoyed how we learned links and about different coding and stuff. I like how we have a  life planning book. The life planning book helps us organize our future.

2. Some things that i dont like about this class is that we mostly do the same thing every single day. We never do anything new on our agenda. I dont really dislike much of this class because over all its an excellent class.

3. I recommend doing new things on our agenda every day and sticking to the same thing every day. I also recommend more free time. Another suggestion is maybe having us suggest things we want to learn about towards computers.

4. The highlight for this class for me is probably our life planning goals book. The life planning goals book. My life planning goals book will help me make my life much more organized and much more efficient. My goals book will help me make my life much more easier and also help me make my goals in life much more organized.

5. I honeslty could of done better but i tried my best and thats all that matters. Trying my best in this class is the best thing i could of done and also managed my things that i needed to do for some other class and still manage to keep up with this class. I can and will try much harder next semester,

6. Yes, I do write in my goals journal for five minutes daily. I write about a page each goal. I don't have enough time to get to the Sharpen the Saw part but when I do, I write enough. I also don't have the time to report but I am writing in my goals journal when I can.

7. I am very committed to being a CTR student. I think being a CTR student/person will get me far in life. I follow all the ways that will help me become successful in my future. Not only that but, I am seeing myself become a better person so the ways are really affecting me for the better. 

                                                       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.