10 Keys to Personal Power

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."

Key number one  clarity. By clarity i mean determination perseverance, and enthusiasm.Bringing them together so that it can help open up vision. For example a person with no goals in life seem to be like an undecided person, and have no control over what they want. In order to achieve there has to be a why, whether a goal, dream, or wish. 80% of decisions should be made the first they come up. its easy to make decisions if you know what you want. Once you have decided what is it that you want and set up a goal or plan on how you are going to get there then you have taken control over your life. Which gives you power.

“Your inner strength is your outer foundation” 

― Allan Rufus

Key 2: Competence

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

 Competence is the ability to do something successfully, efficiently. To be knowledgeable of what you are doing. Every successful person is excellent at what they do. That is because they commit themselves to excellence. There has to be ambition to get to a high position. Excellence doesn't just happen upon you it only comes when you totally commit to being  100% competent in your chosen field. Just like in business 20% of the salespeople make 80% of the sales, and 80% of the salespeople make 20% of the sales. Competence is the key that opens doors to success. Not only business but also for our self improvement.

Key 3: Concentration

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

To concentrate means to focus, either ones attention or a mental effort on a particular object or activity. What this key is talking about is to concentrate on the bigger tasks rather than the small ones. Meaning to always do what is most important in life. Concentrated effort is a source of energy and enthusiasm. If one self wants to gain personal power we can be doing homework and watching a movie that is not having control of our actions. That is why you set your mind to excellence and set your goals plan how you will get there. Power is control, and control is success at an attempt.

 "Concentrate on the things that matter to you."

Key 4: Common sense

• Train your mind 
• Think things through
• listen to your intuition
• learn from setbacks 

Action without thinking is the cause to every failure. Before taking an action thinking about the outcome is a good idea. 

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 the most questions."

Those who decide to gofuthwer than the udual do so but before so they ask the most questions they can to gather up diffrent perspectives and see what to come up with. For example Engineeers to keep on upgrading their creations they first ask themselves how they can improve and how they will improve after doing so they perform their task. Just like a hypothesis there has to be and if and then for you to follow up on your creation.

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." 

                 

Key 6: Consideration

"The quality of your relationships 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."

To take in consideration means thoughtfullness and sensitivity towards others. Thsi key helps us remeber to treat people the proper way and with proper manners. When you actually consider being with others important and realize that helping others you are trully helping yourself become a better person in life and a very successful one too. In many jobs you are required to have people skills. Meaning to be able to communicate with the customer and find the problem and help them, to not be shy and welcome them, and to speak loudly and be kind to the customer. Although not all employees are that way some are tired and not in a good mood. But you you brign in negativity you will recieve negative. That is why considering that other people feel just like you understand or try to understand and maybe you will have a different perspective of them then you will be one step closer to your success.

"Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace."

~Ingrid Newkirk

Key 7: Cosistency

"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.."

Consistency fits into the category of comittment. Brian Tracy teaches us that consistency create acuontability. Being that important perosn for people to depend on is not a bad thing. In fact it is a great thing because it shows how much you actually help others and how good of a listener you are. Once you know people come back for advice they know that you actually cared or you made them feel like they can depend n oyu. Once you comitt to doing something it is important to perfom the task otherwise the other person can or may seem hurt because they depended on you on consistency. Consistency in a relationship is very important because your partner wants to know that you are there for them even through difficult times. The same goes with family even more with family because family is unseperable and for a family member to feel betrayed it is traumatising.

"lack of consistency can bring on a lack of interest"

Key 8: Comitment

"No success is possible without commitment.  The ability to commit yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success." "Become totally absorbed in your work.  Be totally committed."

Comitments is dedication of quality of time to something you like to do or want to do. Commitment is not just about saying it or writing it down. The real thing is performing the task. You can not commit to something if you dont actually do it. For example when people want to work out but they decide to not work out for one day. They think that one day wouldn't make a difference but it actually does. When you stick to something it is better to perform the task the right way rather than to procrastinate and pick up the slack later. Another example would be when you decide to have a diet. People usually take a cheat day but then there is others that diet one day and cheat the rest of the week. You will only suceed if you are determine to do so.

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

~Mario Andretti

Key 9: Courage

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

The definition of courage is the ability to do something that frightens someone: strength in the face of grief and pain. Courage is not about fighting someone because you are strong but also standing up for someone, being strong when you are the weakest, just not letting anything bring you down. It takes self courage for someone to make a change in their life. They have accepted the fact that there has got to be a difference in their life a d to accept it,it takes courage to put it out there and actually follow through. But as Brian Tracy explains to us in the ten keys to Personal Power that the only thing that we are afraid of is failure and to fail it takes courage. But also to try it takes courage to know there is  a risk of failure.

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Key 10: Confidence 

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

They key to confidence is trust or trusting someone else. The meaning of confidence is feeling of self assure arising from ones appreciation or ones abilities or qualities. Self confidence is very important in almost every aspect f our lives,yet so many people struggle to find. People who lack self confidence can find it difficult to become successful. One reason why people tend to fail is because of self doubt. People think negative and the negative happens. Confidence command respect and people have a better chance of  being taken seriously so if you are not confident, fake it till it becomes a habit or till you get use to it. It is up to one self to act confident let go of fear and take a risk. once you have self confidence you will notice you will start achieving higher than what you thought because it is not about setting a goal it is about accomplishing it and how you are accomplishing it.

"Wether you think you can or think you can"t you are right."

                          

Reflection:

The ten keys to personal power are a strategy on how to gain self confidence, how to suceed in life and how to better yourself as a person.