10 Tips to being more truthfull

10 Tips to Being More Truthful

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The Ten Tips for being More Truthful 

1.Make a commitment to tell the truth.

Make sure to tell the truth. Always be honest. Be committed to not lie to yourself or others. Honesty is always the best. 

2.Tell someone about your commitment.

Tell others your plans of having to always tell the truth. Showing others that you are committed to doing something might inspire them to do the same.

3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason. 
Make sure to watch what you say. Don't just say dishonest things to others without thinking of how they might feel with your response. 

4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony. 
Do not use sarcasm, exaggeration, or irony to make fun of people. Do not use them to hurt others but instead to motivate them, to make them better. 
5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it. 
Make sure to never go around the truth for that makes it a lie. Make sure to say the whole truth and don't leave anything that out that should be said. You can't call it the truth if you don't if you say all of it. 
6. Don't indulge in little white lies. 
Don't get involved in people lies no matter how small they might be. Don't help someone in their lies tell them to be honest instead of lying. 
7. Watch out for silent lies. 
Some people might not tell you the truth because they are hiding something. They do no want to tell you something so you should be on the lookout for when people are not telling you the truth. 
8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse. 
When you see yourself about to lie remember to tell yourself that lying is bad and say the truth. 

9. Talk to yourself
Make sure that every once in a while you reassure yourself that you are doing the right thing. Although your decisions might not be popular, or the same thing if you talk to yourself and remember that you are doing the right thing you will be truthful. 


10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth.
When you tell the truth you should give yourself a reward. Telling the truth is a difficult task but if you reward yourself you are more likely to tell the truth. Use a motivation to tell the truth more. 

Reflection
The Ten Tips for being More Truthful can benefit me by helping me become more truthful. The tips that I am applying right now are all of them. The ten tips are helping me become more honest. I will incorporate the ten tips into my Life Planning Goals by creating new goals that involve telling the truth. 

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. 

The Seven Habits

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 

Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind 
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Habit 1: Be proactive 

"Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first.  It says, "I am the captain of my life. I can choose my attitude. I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny, not just a passenger. 

In order to do well in life you must take full responsibility and make sure you do everything that is needed in order to obtain success. You should not wait on others and depend on them to help you make your decisions. You must take charge, make your own choices and work to becoming a better person. Only you are responsible for your future life and whether you are happy or not.

Habit 2:Begin with the end in mind
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."(Jack Welch)
One should always know where their actions are leading them. Always know that for every action their is always a reaction. Know what you want to do with a goal in mind. Never loose focus on what you had planned to do from the beginning and follow it through until the end.  
Habit 3: Put First Thing First
"Organize and execute around priorities"
Know the things that are important and decide which are the ones that must be done and can be done. Be prepared to make a few sacrifices in the decisions you will be making. Plan out your priorities and execute them in order.  Put important things before anything else.

Habit 4: Think Win-Win
"Think Win-Win or no deal."
To truly bring the best out of you, you should have have your mind set to winning. If you keep in your mind that you have to win you won't only bring out your full potential but you also might inspire others around you to try harder. Don't think about losing it won't take you anywhere if you keep losing as an option.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
"Diagnose before you prescribe"
Be open minded and understand situations first so other can listen to what you have to say. You must be extremely attentive and listen carefully to what the other person says. If you do that the person will repay you by listening to what you have to say in return. So if you ignore the person and and don't listen to them they will in return do the same thing to you. So understand first before you can be understood. 

Habit 6: Synergize 
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)"
Work together with others rather than to just trying to solve the problem by yourself. The reward of working with a team is better than the reward you would get by yourself. Discover jointly things that you would be unable to find by ourselves. 


Habit 7:Sharpen the Saw
Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional 
Preserve and enhance the greatest asset you have. Balance yourself in you physical, mental, spiritual, and social/emotional self. With this you should be able to easily handle the challenges around you. Living a balanced life means taking the time to renew yourself. Make sure that you are always improving yourself to be a better you.


Reflection: These 7 habits are very effective in changing one's life. If you follow by these habits you will notice a positive difference in your life. I can use these habits to become a highly effective person. By following these habits I can make my life highly effective but if I do the opposite of these habits my life would not be effective so I will try to always follow by these habits.    

Glenn Cunningham

Glenn Cunningham-Have Heart

Glenn Cunningham is a man that had went through many horrible things as a child. He had lost his brother and was told that he would never walk again. But none of that stopped Cunningham from moving forward. His dreams were to become a doctor and to run in the Olympics. To many people running in the Olympics is tough enough but to overcome being crippled and still run in the Olympics is an impossible task. But this impossible task didn't stop Cunningham. He did his best all life until he was able to achieve his goals.  What many people do is they stop trying when something gets tough although in reality their problem isn't as hard as they think it is. As long as you place all your heart into something you can achieve it.  

Way to be

                9 ways to be Happy and Make Something of your life 
                                       -Gordon B. Hinckley

1. Be grateful

Being grateful is important because it something you can do even if you are angry, depressed, or jealous. It is always easy to look back at the bad times but you can always look at the good times of your life and appreciate all that has happened to you. Being grateful can change you from being in a negative mood to a positive mood. being grateful for receiving something and showing yourself being grateful can put a smile on others. 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

2. Be Smart 
Being smart doesn't just mean to know about a lot of things, being smart is also knowing the difference between good things and bad things. Being smart is to not be ignorant of not only school education but also for the real world. 
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

3. Be involved in good works 
 Doing well for something is always the way to go. This shows how involved you are. By demonstrating this it shows that you are a careful person. It also shows that you believe in good works. Doing good works do not always have to be hard work. It can be simply as working with cities community. Be involved will help out in the future. This will be good for college as it shows you can be good with others. Always try to be involved in good works. It will pay out later in the long run of one’s life.

"Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Ice Cube

4. Be Clean
Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt and the process of achieving and maintaining that that state. It could also mean that you should stay on the right path or "the clean path". You should stay away from people that are bad influences so they cant dirty you. Staying away from drugs is a way of staying clean. 
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

5.be true
Being true is always telling the truth to others. To be true is also being honest with yourself and not tell lies that makes you see things that you want to see. To be yourself and not hate yourself. To have an open mind about good things. 
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

6. Be positive
To be positive one must always think of the best outcomes in the worst situations. But it doesn't just mean to ignore the negative things in life but to approach something that is unpleasant with a positive attitude. You must think that the best will happen not the worst. One of the first steps to being positive is to always figure out what is the problem and find an easy solution to it. One should practice their gratitude on any thing, whether it being employed or having a roof to live under one should always be thankful. A way I could apply this to myself would be to have a better life. 
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Kobe Bryant

7. Be Humble 
To be humble one must not be to prideful or marked by meekness or modesty. You must know your own limits and avoid people that you know you push you away from being humble. Being humble is also being positive. Always be thankful for what you have and never be greedy towards the things that you don't have. Don't bloat about what you have or have done. be gracious in defeat. An example would be if you win a rival game, don't go screaming saying you are the best but be humble that you won the game and hope to win the next one instead. 
 Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Shah Rukh Khan

8. Be still

Be still means to relax stay calm don't worry about anything be a calm person. Not one that doesn't know how to sit down and be true to themselves is kind and heartwarming. Also be kind and a cool person. Be a Ctr person, i am doing these posts to show to people to be a CTR person. you and you're family should be ctr people because being one is a very good thing to do. No one is going to want to hang out with you if you're a CTW person.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Morgan Freeman

What this quote means is that just showing the way you live your life to others can impact their life. 

9. Be Prayful




Overall reflection: These 9 steps are an easy way to keep your life in the most positive way possible. Following these could change a persons life. They also just don't help your life but they could also help influence other people lifes. I personally feel as if they 9 ways are able to change your life and make something of it. What I commit about doing to the 9 ways is to always live by these ways to improve my life.