Brian Tracy 10 Keys To Personal Power

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #1: Clarity

The ability to 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 can have anything you want, if you have clear goals.

Be decisive.  If you cannot make decisions readily, you’ll always work for people who can.  80% of decision should be made the first time they come up.  It’s easy to make decisions if you know what you want.

Have a vision.  If you want to reach your dreams, you need to have a dream.  Where people lack in vision, they perish inside.  You’re vision needs to be big enough that excites you and others to get involved.

The best way to predict the future, is to create it.

Focus on results, not activities.

Action Assignment:

Write out your goals.   Write them out very specifically and clearly.  Re-write your major goals every single morning in the first personal singular.

“I earn 200,000 per year”

“I am the best real estate agent”

Review what you’ve done over the course of the day.  Ask yourself

“What did I do right to help me reach my goals today?”

“If I could do it over, what would I do differently?”

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #2: Competence

Every successful person is excellent at what they do.  Before they start, they commit themselves to becoming excellent.

Only the top 5-10% are Excellent.

The top 20% of sales people make 16 times the average income of the bottom 80%.

Prudential Insurance company did a study on their agents and the results were astounding:

The average income of the top 20% of the top 20% (top 4%) made 32X the average income of the bottom 80%.

The average income of the top 20% of the top 20% of the top 20% (top .8%) made 54X the average income of the bottom 80%.

No matter what region, what economy, in every office of 50 agents, there was one that made 54 times the average income of the other agents.

They commit themselves to excellence.  They read books by the top agents. They listen to audios by the top agents. They go to events and surround themselves with the top agents to learn everything they can from them.

If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way.

The harder you work, the better you get.

Less than 5% of the population really succeed in life.

The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance.

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #3: Concentration

Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself “Is this the best use of my time” before you start anything.  Before you start your day, before you get in the car, before you watch TV, before you do anything.

Have a sense of urgency in everything you do.

Develop a reputation for getting things done FAST.  If you develop this reputation, you create a fortune in life.

Complete each job you start.  Keep at it until you complete it.

·         Have the ability to set priorities

·         key to effectiveness

·         best use of time

·         sense of urgency

·         completion of each task

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #4: Common Sense

Action without thinking is the cause of every failure.

Listen to your intuition.  Your intuition is the best guide you have.

Learn from your setbacks.  Ask yourself “What is the valuable lesson I can learn from this experience?”

The un-examined life, is not worth living.

·         Train your mind

·         think things through

·         listen to your intuition

·         learn from setbacks

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #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.

The more you keep doing what you’re doing, the more you’ll get what you’ve got.

An idea that is more than 10% new, is too new

If you want to become wealthy in life, offer a service that people use all the time, but handling it just a little bit better.

Trust your ideas.

If you decide you are going to achieve a certain level of income, success, etc. You will develop the ideas that will lea

·         top creative potential

·         look for better ways

·         be flexible

·         ask questions

·         have one new idea

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #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 work a day, within 5 years, you’ll be the best educated person in history.

The more words you have, the better the world is you create.

Practice the golden rule “You’ll get out of life, what you put into it.”

·         relationships determine success

·         people skills

·         golden rule

·         learn to listen

·         most firings, result form personality conflicts

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #7: Consistency

Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work.

Be consistant 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.

Just be a steady person.  You don’t have to be a genius.

Nobody is better than you or I.  They are just doing things a different way.

Every singe greatest accomplishment in life is an accumulation of thousands of little accomplishments that nobody sees.

Guard your integrity as a sacred thing.  Never compromise your peace of mind.  Don’t stay in relationships, jobs, etc. if it’s going to compromise your peace of mind.

You’ll never

·         dependable work is superior

·         consistency in relationships

·         guard your integrity

·         consistency in personal development.

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #8: Commitment

To make a commitment is one of the hardest things people can do.

No success is possible without commitment.  The ability to commitment to yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success.

Become totally absorbed in your work.  Be totally committed.

If your are committed to your work, you’ll do more than any other person, regardless of their talent or ability.

·         to your company, boss , job

·         to your family, friends,

·         to yourself, career success

·         to your goals

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #9: Courage

Courageous people are not afraid, they just face their fears.

Fear and courage tend to be habits.

If you’re afraid and you back away, you’ll form a habit of always backing away.

If you’re afraid and you face your fear, you’ll form a habit of facing your fear and your fears will go away.

Always move forward.  Don’t stay still and play it safe.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.  The more you seek opportunity, the more security you’ll have.  The tend to seek security, is the low road to failure.

If you are not at least a little bit afraid 4-5 times a day, you’re not moving forward.

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

The fear of failure can be counteracted by facing the fear.

Persist in the face of adversity.

Wait until things to completly the worst.  THen it’s the person that picks themselves up and says, “nothing is going to stop me”

Develop the quality of being unstoppable.

Make the decision that you can be tired, you can be worn out, but nothing will every stop you.

·         confront your fears

·         dare to go forward

·         avoid ruts

·         be a littel afraid

·         no security, just opportunity

·         fear of failure begets faiulre

·         persist despite

Brian Tracy 10 Keys to Personal Power #10: Confidence

Confidence comes as a result of everything else..  You only get confidence by doing things over and over again.

Self doubt is the great paralizer of all activity.  The only way to overcome it, is by doing the things we would normally would move away from. Continuously moving forward.

If you persist until you succeed, you plug into your subconscious mind a success pattern.

Once you have this pattern set down, you’ll be able to apply it to something else.

·         Self-doubt can paralyze

·         Self-confidence begets achievement

·         Behave confidently

Behave confidently.

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and ACT as though it was impossible to fail.”

Your true belief is only expressed in your actions.

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