10 Keys to Personal Power
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| Brian Tracy |
1st Key: Clarity
“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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-Clarity is an essential part of unlocking your potential. Clarity allows us to speak and think clearly, making us more efficient. This also helps us with decisions and choices which can prevents lapses of our judgement, making our actions more justified. This is what make your actions more transparent.
2nd Key: Competence
“Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.”
Peter Tremayne, Shroud for the Archbishop
-Another important key to being a better person the efficiency and success fullness of our actions or competence. This is measured by the work and effort we put in and the results created by do them. Competence is have the skill and confidence to accomplish tasks with great, successful results. It is difficult to achieve this key but none the less still possible. Competence is a vital key to have.
3rd Key: Concentration
"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory"
Bill Russell
-Concentration is the base of personal power. Without focus, nothing can be done with us being distracted with miscellaneous objectives instead of focusing the objectives of importance. An example of this is posting something on social media instead of doing your homework even if homework is far more crucial than posting on social media.
- Having common sense tells us a lot about a person. People who have common sense typically are the smartest among us or just average people considering if you take the term literally. Common sense is having practical judgement used for obvious reasons. It takes someone with wisdom and experience to utilize it in the best of situations. Often times it is quite useful for basic actions and helps with making the right and smarter choices. Overall, common sense is a need to become the best.
5th Key:Creativity
6th Key: Consideration
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things." Bruce Barton
-Consideration is an important key into become a better person in general. This accounts you taking everything into consideration which let's you make the right choice more often. Its not only the things you do that you consider but also the things you do for others. You'll gradually start caring for others, making yourself aware of your actions and what it can do to others. In general, consideration
7th Key: Consistency
"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."
Dwayne Johnson
-Having consistency means to always consistent with good qualities such as work hard or helping a friend. To remain consistent is to keep doing these acts no matter what the circumstances. It is difficult to stay consistent at times but that endurance is what improves you as a person. It will lead you to a path of success. This is what it means to have consistency.
-Clarity is an essential part of unlocking your potential. Clarity allows us to speak and think clearly, making us more efficient. This also helps us with decisions and choices which can prevents lapses of our judgement, making our actions more justified. This is what make your actions more transparent.2nd Key: Competence
“Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.”
Peter Tremayne, Shroud for the Archbishop
3rd Key: Concentration
"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory"
Bill Russell
-Concentration is the base of personal power. Without focus, nothing can be done with us being distracted with miscellaneous objectives instead of focusing the objectives of importance. An example of this is posting something on social media instead of doing your homework even if homework is far more crucial than posting on social media.
4th Key: Common Sense
"Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence."
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni
- Having common sense tells us a lot about a person. People who have common sense typically are the smartest among us or just average people considering if you take the term literally. Common sense is having practical judgement used for obvious reasons. It takes someone with wisdom and experience to utilize it in the best of situations. Often times it is quite useful for basic actions and helps with making the right and smarter choices. Overall, common sense is a need to become the best. 5th Key:Creativity
6th Key: Consideration
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things." Bruce Barton
-Consideration is an important key into become a better person in general. This accounts you taking everything into consideration which let's you make the right choice more often. Its not only the things you do that you consider but also the things you do for others. You'll gradually start caring for others, making yourself aware of your actions and what it can do to others. In general, consideration7th Key: Consistency
"Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."
Dwayne Johnson
9th Key: Courage
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney
-Courage is a rare characteristic that a handful of people have. This is what drives people to take a risks whether they fail or succeed. To obtain courage is to have massive amounts of confidence in yourself and you abilities. Many people do not have to characteristic and are afraid to make that jump to become successful and hide in the fear for failure. If you have the courage to make that risk, most likely you will succeed. You must being willing to failure in order to succeed.
10th Key: Confidence
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller
-The last and final personal
10th Key: Confidence
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller
-The last and final personal
power to achieve and gain is confidence. Confidence is the base of all these personal powers. This is what drives you to go after what you want and need. No matter the odds, you will be optimistic about you abilities and efforts which is much more valuable than any other trait. This endurance is what many people are lacking and only a few have. If you can't believe in yourself, why try?
Reflection
- Overall, these keys will be very beneficial with becoming a better, stronger person. I'm sure that these principles will surely be of use in order to improve an individuals. Keys such as these are attributes that are essential in our every day lives. Especially the lives of powerful and successful people. That is why people who are successful use these keys to get where they are now. If we use these keys, I'm sure we can become as successful as them one day.
I believe these keys will be of use to me and I plan on using each and every one of them in my everyday life. The key that impacted me the most is confidence. I underestimated confidence because I only saw it as a word. Until I saw Brian Tracy's speech about confidence, I realized that there was more to confidence that it just being a word but also a key to success. I plan to build up my confidence by also building the other keys. The other keys are important but I see confidence as the most important.
Reflection
- Overall, these keys will be very beneficial with becoming a better, stronger person. I'm sure that these principles will surely be of use in order to improve an individuals. Keys such as these are attributes that are essential in our every day lives. Especially the lives of powerful and successful people. That is why people who are successful use these keys to get where they are now. If we use these keys, I'm sure we can become as successful as them one day.
I believe these keys will be of use to me and I plan on using each and every one of them in my everyday life. The key that impacted me the most is confidence. I underestimated confidence because I only saw it as a word. Until I saw Brian Tracy's speech about confidence, I realized that there was more to confidence that it just being a word but also a key to success. I plan to build up my confidence by also building the other keys. The other keys are important but I see confidence as the most important.
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