Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the countries armed forces. 

Memorial Day is on the last Monday in May.

A few ways to show honor on Memorial Day is to say thank you to a veteran or current member of the armed forces. You could also visit a Va's national cemeteries. You could also place flags or flowers on a veteran's grave. 




Some interesting facts that I learned about Memorial Day is that it was not always celebrated on the last Monday of May, it used to be celebrated every 30th of May. 
It is legally required to observe a National Moment of Remembrance.
More than 36 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home this Memorial Day.

On memorial day me and my family go to my brother's home who is currently in the army and stay their with him until it gets late. 

Becoming Your Best

The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

1. Be true to character

Be true to yourself. Don't act differently only to impress people. Lying to yourself and showing people who you actually are not is the same thing as lying to them. 

2.Use your imagination 

Use imagination in your every day life. Express yourself in ways that only you are able to. Think of creative positive things. 

3.Apply the power of knowledge 
Use what you know to help you in life. Use your knowledge of things to help make your life easier. Apply the knowledge you to into your life in general. 

4.Never Give up
Do not give up on things that are difficult. You have to keep trying. If you never failed at something then you never actually tried to do something in life. 

5.Find peace and balance
Peace and balance can help you become into a highly successful leader. Peace is the balance to everything. When other people see you in a peaceful state they will ask you for advice. 

6. Live the Golden Rule  
Always treat people in a kind and friendly matter as though the way you want to be treated. Don't wish for bad things upon others as those bad thoughts might happen to you. One should not treat others in ways that they would not like to be treated. 

7. Build and maintain trust
For someone to truly believe in you, first you must gain their trust. Build that trust and continue to grow that trust that you have with a person. Show others that you are responsible enough to keep secrets. Show them that you do not break promises. Be open minded and never reject an idea or suggestion. Be empathetic so people and trust you. Be consistent and make sure you words make sense with what you are saying. 
 
8. Quick to listen slow to wrath
Be very open minded and listen to what others have to say. Do not get mad before the other person has a chance to explain. Do not listen to find a problem or an issue, listen to find the issue behind the complaint. 

"Anger doesn't solve anything, it builds nothing but it can destroy everything" 

9. Lead with vision

Lead people with a goal in mind so everyone can see. Don't just lead others but also yourself. Lead your life with a plan in your mind on what you want to do so it can lead your life. You can not lead your life you do not yourself in something. Picture the future. 

10. Manage with a plan
Don't lead your life not knowing what to do. Make sure you plan out things so you wont be lost in the future. Just like principle number 9 "Lead with vision" make sure you know what you are doing.

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." -Peter Drucker 

11. Do what matters the most
Make sure you know how much something ways in importance. For example making sure you finish all of your homework is more important than you making sure you check your social media. Manage the things that are important first and then everything else can be second. 

12. Be accountable 
Be expected to be responsible for your own actions. Know what you are doing and don't make excuses about it, they were your actions now stand up for them. Begin with a clear mind for success. Identify the means to be able to measure your progress. Don't ever give up. 

10 Tips to being more truthfull

10 Tips to Being More Truthful

Wife, mother, religious worker, national award-winning author and educator

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.