10 Keys

The 10 Keys to personal Power

Brian 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." 

You should be always be sure to make yourself clear on what you want to do. Never have thoughts of what if just determine what you want to do. Plan your goals for the future have a thought of where you want your life to lead. If you do not have a specific direction on where to lead your life you will never improve yourself. 

Key:2 Competence

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

Being consistent at something and not giving up on it is the best way to improve your skills. Commit to things that you really like and many good thing will happen to you. The only way to improve your skills is to work hard at them. Being able to do things successfully will also bring up new opportunities that will bring success to your life.   

Key:3 Concentration

"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself "Is this the best use of my time?" before you start anything."

Make sure that everything that you do has meaning. Their are many things that you are able to do in your lifetime but are those things important enough that you should actually be doing them. Would you waste or time looking at useless pictures on the internet instead of doing things like spending time with your family or applying to get a job. Make sure that the things that you do are the best use of your time.  

Key:4 Common Sense

Know the difference between what is right from what is wrong. As we are born we are also born with knowledge to distinguish what is wrong from what is right. Always choose to do what is right since it is common sense. Common sense is something that is natural and does need any reasoning. 

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 more questions."

The way to be able to learn is to ask questions. The more you ask questions the more knowledgeable you are and the more creative you become. Ask as many questions as you can. Do not be afraid to ask questions to thing that you do not know, asking questions is the way to get rid of your fear. 

Key 6: Consideration 

"The quality of your relationship 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."

  Take into consideration the relationship that you have with other people. Don't take those relationships for granted. The way you consider your relationships with other people will determine your success in life. Develop your people skills so that you will be better in communicating with other people. Take as many speech classes or other classes that will help you communicate better with other people. If you were to learn at least one new thing every day you could be most educated person. 

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."

 Make sure to always complete tasks to your full ability. If you rush through the work without giving it your you are seemed as lazy and are frowned upon, but if you do your task steady and predictable it will look far more superior and you will be praised. Be sure you are the person that everyone look to for a favor because of your dependability and always follow through if you take on a favor. 

Key 8: Commitment 

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

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

When you are working on something make sure you give it 100%. Make sure you stick to what you are doing until you finish with what you are doing and never give up on it. Making sure you finish what you started that is the path to success. Don't try to do only half the work and expect for others to be amazed, make sure you finish all the work so you know that you are on the right path.  

Key 9: Courage

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

Don't be afraid of not succeeding. Failure is a common thing in life. You have to keep trying to be able to succeed. You have nothing to fear since you can try again, this is what life is trial and error. If you never failed at something then you never tried anything in life. The world will always stop you from succeeding, there will always be people that will try to bring you down but all you have to do is ignore them and keep moving forward. 

Key 10: Confidence

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

Being confident plays a big role in personal power. You can't be as good if you are not confident. You must believe that you can do something without questioning that you cant do something. You have go over thing over and over until you are used to it then you will be fully confident.  

Reflection: The 10 keys to personal power are very helpful. They make you more successful in life. They keys that I am applying right now are all of them. Each key is helpful in their own way and there is not one that wont help you gain personal power.The ways that I will incorporate these in my life planning will be to think of ways that are most used by the 10 keys. The 10 keys have changed my life by making me more committed to what I do and make me strive to become better.