The Ten 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 a clear specific goal in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do.”

To have a clear understanding of what you are going to be in life, do or have is up to you. Clarity is the starting point to success. Someone with no sense of where they are going will achieve very little if not anything. Don’t let problems get the best of you or they will over power you and you will get lost. In this world we are at our highest point where we have the ability to choose our own path and determine what we want to do. We have te best opportunities in life but it is up to us to see what we need to get to have what we want in life that will be good for our future. We have to take power of our future with a clear mind and get what we need for us.

Key 2: Competence

"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."

Competence is the second key to your personal power. Competence is the commitment to becoming excellent. Moving forward would be an extreme challenge if you lack competence. In developing your personal power so that you may dictate your life you must develop the competence it takes to get ahead and keep moving forward. so if you have no competence build some and get better at doing something. work hard and don't give up. when you give up you lose and you will taker a long time to get back up.Your skills your knowledge base will get you to were you want to go.

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 critical for the accurate completion of the necessary tasks to accomplish any goal you have set for yourself. Always concentrate on what you are doing don't get left behind or you will not succeed in life or in a job. concentration is critical to accurately learn new things and gain more knowledge. Concentrate on what you need to do first and leave the less important stuff for later. Concentrate on what is best for you know and will benefit you later and not on silly things that will get you nowhere. Concentrate on that, that is best for you and will be at the best use of your time. Do something that is worth your time.

Key 4: Common Sense

     
•          Train your mind
•          Think things through
•          Listen to your intuition
•         Learn from setbacks

Sometimes we have the ability to really make a simple situation much more complicated than it has to be. Whereas if we slowed things down a bit and used some common sense everything would appear different to us. Train your mind to slow things down and make things more simple tan turning them complicated. We should always think things through before we do them and be confident that is the way we should do them. Listening to your intuition means to be one with yourself know yourself know what you truly are for the inside. Let go of regret and resentment to be your true self. But always remember that if you take a step back you should always push yourself to move forward instead of moving more back. Basically be able to perceive, understand, and judge things from another perspective

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."

To be a genius it to be above all humans meaning that no person is intelligently more intelligent than another everyone is equal. But it is up to us to be up to our highs expectations of being geniuses everyone is intelligent one more than another but everyone can meet another person intelligence if they are try but to get their they have to ask questions to gain more knowledge so that you can meet your highest if you don’t ask questions then you will always think that others are more intelligent than you but they might not be wise. Maybe you can be some day if you try.

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."

The quality of your relationships good or bad whit people will determine your success. Hang with the wrong crowd and you will become less successful than others. Hang with the good crowd and you will become more successful if you don’t have relations with the wrong crowd. Communicating is a step to your success if you can’t communicate with the good relationships you get lost ask questions on how to become more successful. Be more successful person learn what you can from people and you might be one of the most educated people 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.”

Unchanging in achievement or effect over a period of time. To be consistent in your relationship with your work you have to be above achievable in order to do this you have to keep your mind clear and away from bad influences. Have a relationship with those that care about you and have a good environment to be a family to be yourself. Be consistent in your relationships that are good for you that you can commit to. Be the friend companion that can get things done if anything goes wrong or if something bad happens. Be a good friend and help others when they need you but don’t let them take advantage of you. And if you say you do something don’t wait to get them done or you will fail in your commitment that you decided to do for another person. Get things done and be at the top at all times.

Key 8: Commitment

"No success is possible without commitment.  The ability to commitment to yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success."

"Become totally absorbed in your work.  Be totally committed."

The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc. no success is possible if you do not commit to being successful in life in anything. Being committed to what you are doing and to what you feel will get you to be successful. Be committed to your relationships with others. Be committed to yourself and to what feels right and what you truly believe in. be committed to your life and always be on top of it 

Key 9: Courage

"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."

Meaning that you have to be courageous and beat your fears and if you are fearful of failure then you will fail. But if your confident then you will find the courage to beat what you believe if your failure and concur them so that you can be successful. Thinking you will fail will make you fail before you do something so you have to just go for it and believe that you make it.be less fearful of you failure so that you can succeed in life rather than failing and prove to others right that you are a failure so get the courage you need to prove them wrong and be successful in life.

Key 10: Confidence

"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again."

By doing something that you are afraid of again and again not only once gives you confidence to do other things and makes you less fearful of other things. Getting confidence to do things will make you feel free and not in a cage that you built around you to protect you from ever trying something that you see others doing be a free bird and gain confidence to brake the barriers that you put up. Be less fear full of what you can be confident about and do time after time. Try new things don’t be left in the dark go and try and if not successful on the first try do it again. Have confidence in oneself be certain that the course of  actions are in the best of your ability to be good.
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Reflection: I believe that the ten keys are very interesting. I have been trying to apply some of these keys like courage to do things that I want an I believe I can earn and get confidence I have an I will continue to apply this key to every day I’m also working on clarity and have a clear understanding of what I want. And overall I believe that these keys are great because they will continue to apply them every day.