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. 

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.    

The Three Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

Three Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

Technique 1: Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

I strongly agree with what this is trying to say. People already have problems of their own so there is no reason why to get other people involved with your problems. Also do not talk bad about things because that could also lead to the person thinking that you say bad thing about them. Do not make people feel awkward in public when you are expressing your hate for the thing that you do not like. A good way to follow this rule would to always be thinking positive in front of someone. Never talk bad about things or things that you hate because people could care less. Always trying to comfort someone instead of trying to make someone comfort you.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Robert A. Cook

Technique 2: Give honest and sincere appreciation
"The big secret in dealing with people."
Being honest and sincere to a person is a good way to make friends easily. People like others to be honest and sincere when talking to them. A honest opinion is always better than a fake one. You should only say something if you mean it. Lying and faking your appreciation is no good

Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

                                                                       Taylor Lautner

Technique 3: Arouse in the other person an eager want.

"He who can do this has the whole world with them. He who cannot, walks a lonely way."

If you want to maintain a person happy and pleased, you must arouse an eager want in them. That means that you should pay attention to them and show them that at that time, they are your main focus. By doing so, the person will feel pleased and happy that you are such an attentive listener. But in order to do this you must remain cool, calm, and positive.

Final Reflection:

The three fundamental techniques are an effective way to improve your daily life and socialization with other people. This technique is very similar to Dale Carnegies Six ways to make people like you. It will help your relationship with other people and make yourself better as a person. What I will do to imply the three Fundamental Techniques will be to always refer to these methods when socializing with other people. 

John R. Noe "Six Attitudes Of High Achievers"

"the six Attitudes of high achievers"

John R. Noe 

1.Make No Small Plans

If you want to be a person with an attitude of a high achiever then you must not make small plans. Go big make your ideas as big as you can think. Although the bigger ideas you the harder they will be, the outcome of that big plan will always be better than an outcome of a small plan. Having a harder plan will be more of an achievement that if your were to think of a smaller plan. 

"She turned her can'ts into cans and her dreams into plans"

What I can do to apply this method into my life is to always think bigger in any small ideas that I might get. Instead of only going for B's or C's in school I should be going for A's.

2.Do what they fear
To do things that others fear to do is something amazing.many people fear because they do not know of the outcome.Just thinking about things could put people into a state of fear. It doesn't mean that you have to jump in front of a tiger and fight. Doing things like standing up for yourself or standing up for someone else is something that many people fear.  To act before you have second thoughts is what High Achievers do. What I can do to apply this new attitude is to always think think that I having to yet to lose I should go for it.

-Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

3.Are willing To prepare

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

Donovan Bailey

Reflection: To be prepared is to have confidence in what you doing. To be positive in your goals and to not quit in your goals.To always know what you're going to do in the future and the present. To never let yourself down. Always be in order to what you want to do. Never be disorganized in your way of life.

4. Are Willing to Risk Failure

In order to become a high achiever one must be able risk not being able to succeed in the first try they do something. No one gets everything on their first go. It takes a couple of tries until you become successful in something. For example you might not do your best in a sport that you have never tried before but that’s ok because the way to become better is to see what you are lacking and improve on it. It is better to try and fail that never have tried at all.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

5. Are teachable

In order to be a high achiever one must always be open minded. They should learn many ways to find the solution to something. You should be able to ask questions on things that you don't know about. you should be able to put aside your ignorance and acknowledge that you might not be right and there is another way to something. 

“Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything.” – Dani Johnson





6. Have Heart 
To have a heart is to care for others before you think about yourself. Help others in their time of need. Show mercy to those you do and do not deserve it. Help everyone individual that needs help. Teach others a positive way of looking at things. Take care of the sick. Give to others what you have and they don't. Take every opinion into consideration. 
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
-John Bunyan



Overall Reflection
I truly feel as if though these six attitudes could help someone turn into a high achiever. I will take these six attitudes into account and will try to follow by these attitudes.  These attitudes can help me become a better person.