The 12 principles of highly successful leaders
1. Be true to character
This means to basically stay true to yourself. It is important to have a good character because you feel great. You have positive traits and that makes other people change their attitude towards you.



2. Use your imagination
Imaginative people are the best kind of people. I feel that when you have a very wide imagination, you have the potential to create big things. I think I have plenty imagination when I hear a song and I already know what the music video should look like so I have all these ideas in my head, the setting, the scene, but sadly when the actual music video comes out it is completely different. That's why I want to be a music video director so I can finally put my ideas into action.

4. Never Give up
This statement keeps me going and may be the only one. And I mean this in the long run because goals that I have and am going to accomplish are for when I get older. But currently sometimes I just want to give up on everything and mostly everyone around me. These things though aren't at all as important as the things I am willing to not give up on in the future. These tasks and these irrelevant people will not matter to me in 10 years so I don't put my focus on them at the moment.


Find Peace and Balance
Finding peace and balance is mainly about being at your happiest point. I think that to find your peace and balance you need to get away from the things that make you feel not at ease because then you don't have any kind of peace so if anyone wants to find peace and balance at all they should do the things that bring them joy.
 

Live the Golden Rule
The golden rule is to treat others the way you want to be treated. And that's important to me because I've been bullied almost my entire life. It has always been hard for me to understand why people are so cruel for no reason. I'd understand if I had given them a reason to be cruel to me but for them to treat me the way they did just because of my appearance and because I was different from the rest. They probably still don't even know all the pain that they caused me and how many times I cried because I didn't understand why they didn't like me. Now that I'm older I don't care what anyone thinks because if anything I will think worse of them. I don't have to feel bad for not being perfect and I don't take crap from anyone. I've learned to stand up for myself since deciding I wouldn't let anyone bring me down again. It is also the reason why I treat others the way I want to be treated because I know how much it hurts to be the victim. 


Build and maintain trust
To build and maintain trust means to become trustworthy and relied on to maintain secrets. It's very hard to trust people lately. There's only one person I could actually trust aside from everyone else. There's a girl that I decided to trust about cherrio and this dumb girl told cherrio that we call her cherrio. I thought that we could trust each other but apparently I was wrong about her. Well whatever she's ugly and she don't have friends. And that taught me a lesson to be really careful about who I trust. 


Quick to listen slow to wrath
No I don't think I am slow to wrath because anything can get me annoyed easily. I should totally work on that though because that might be one reason why some people don't like me and I get it but they should at least try to not get on my last nerve and stop being so annoying because I will speak out I don't care who it is. 



Lead with Vision
I think leading with vision means to be determined to follow up on your dreams and to always have that vision in your head of becoming what you want and do what you have always imagined yourself doing in the future. I decided what I wanted to be doing with my life when I was 12 and I still continue to keep the same vision in my head and I hope that's exactly how it stays in the next 5 years and maybe by then of my dreams will already have come true I will keep working hard to pursue my goals. 


Manage with a plan
To manage with a plan means to have an idea of what you as an individual want to do, whether it's a long term plan or a short term plan. I think I always manage with a plan like Dj Khaled always has a plan. He says to never let them tell you that you can't win. ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN NO MATTER WHAT GOT MONEY ON MY MIND AND I NEVER GIVING UP. 


Do what Matter the Most 
Always. There's very few things that matter to me so of course I make the most of them when I can. Some examples are: Eating food, showering, looking good, keeping up to date with my idols on social media and educating myself on what's gonna benefit me in the future. A lot of the things that I'm expected to do are not even close to being beneficial to me later on like math. I hate math so much and I don't think I will need to know how to do Algebra 2 or Geometry so I try to focus on more important things than that. I used to also focus on stupid boys but with all my bad experiences that I've had I have learned that it is better to stay away from immature little boys and that there are much more important things to do than to pay them even a little bit of attention I'll just wait until an actual man comes into my life.


Be accountable
I can be accountable when I need to be. Whether it's for a group project, or a friend thing, I can definitely be expected to be responsible, to explain, and to answer anything that is supposed to be. An example could be when I am relied on to be a witness of an event that person can count on me and I will for sure be there to talk to anyone who may need an explanation.

                   10 Keys to Personal Power
                         

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 2: Competence
"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get." 
I think it is true, if you really want to succeed at something you have to really be determined and if you really want it, you must definitely work hard at it so you get better until you master it.


Key 3: Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself "Is this the best use of my time?" before you start anything."
I think to be actually concentrated you do need to make sure you're giving the right time to the most important things before the least important things for example pay more attention to your school work rather than your rat. 


Key 4: Common Sense

Key 5: Creativity 
"Except the fact that very human being is a genius. The hallmark of creativity is asking questions. The people who are most creative ask the most questions." 
I think creativity is a major key. If someone is not creative, they may not have an idea of how to do most things, which is why I think that creative people are really smart. Creative people think more than people who are not. I find creativity really attractive in a person, and if a person is not then I have no interest in talking to them. Usually uncreative people are the ones who don't know what to make out of their lives so they turn to drugs and that's not choosing the right. 

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."

Consideration is a really important trait that I look for in a friend. Most of the people I hang out with are considerate, I try to stay away from rats.


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..."

Of course I think consistency is really important in many cases. Whether it is a relationship with a significant other, a friend, or a family member, or at a job interview. I think it is just like making a commitment or a promise, it is something you're expected to keep. In my opinion, immature stupid teenage boys seem to have a problem with consistency. For example, some girls with their stupid rat boyfriends have problems in their relationship because dumb boys don't know how to handle arguments. In another scenario, boys are either dumb or just clueless and don't know how to handle a girl's feelings and because of their lack of consistency, they end up breaking their hearts and leaving them wondering what could have been if the guy was actually different and not like everyone else.

Key 8: Commitment
"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."

Commitment is a major key. I stay committed to many things in my life, like my friends, my work, my idols. I've been supporting Miley Cyrus since I was 7 and now I'm 16, I've been there through the Disney phase all the way up to now. If that's not commitment then I don't know what is. I am very committed to keeping my friends' secrets which is why I think so many of them trust me with their stuff. I'm also committed to my goals because I have not given up on my future dreams and goals since 5 years and that's a really long time.



Key 9: Courage
"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."


Courage is a key that everyone wishes that they'd have under control. I wish I was courageous for sure as much as I wish other people also were. If only I could build up some courage on my own then I'd be able to do the things I imagine myself doing in my head and I would do those things in real life. It is such a struggle to be scared the way I am because being scared doesn't allow me to get what I want. I think if I were confident enough to say and do the things I imagine I would probably get it my way.



Key 10: Confidence
"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again."


When people say they think confidence is attractive, that breaks my heart because that's something I don't have. All the time I wish I did have confidence, it would be very helpful in everything I do. Sadly no matter how much I try, I can't be confident because I'm ugly and I feel that I have no right to feel confidence.



Reflection:
Well these 10 keys are all major keys to success. Each one benefits us in several different ways. I think the key I'm trying to apply to now is Key#9 which is courage. I think the reason it hasn't made a difference is because I'm actually not trying. I hope to incorporate the rest of the keys into my life planning by building up a bit of each key inside myself.