Becoming Your Best:
The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders
1. Be true to character
Reflection: This means you should always be yourself. Be true to yourself by being yourself “Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.” Vera Nazarian By being true you have to make good decisions for yourself. I think that by making a decision for yourself that you think is best for you. Always be true to character no matter who it is be yourself. It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. Be true in everything you say or do.
2. Use your imagination
Reflection: This means that you should imagine things. For example if you have a goal in mind imagine you reaching that goal. You can use your imagination for anything."Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein Use your imagination to reach your goals. I think that your imagination can be very helpful if you actually think about it.
3. Apply the power of knowledge
Reflection: Always use your knowledge. Knowledge is facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. "Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility." Robin Morgan Basically it means to apply all your power to something that you know much about apply all your power to your knowledge.
4. Never give up
Reflection: I think that you should never give up on anything you want. Go for what you want. If you have your goals in mind just accomplish them and continue on with other goals that you have in mind. I think that we shouldn't give up on goals that we have. Giving up i think shows something about you, shows that you don't want to work hard to accomplish your goals or at least try to. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe We should never give up we just need time to accomplish things.
5. Find peace and balance
Reflection: I think that we should all find peace and balance. We should all be able to find peace within something. Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. "Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it." Alan Dershowitz
6. Live the Golden Rule
Reflection: Live the golden must be important to live by it. At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people. Chad Kroeger
7. Build and maintain trust
Reflection: This is trying to say that we should build our trust. You are supposed to trust people so that people can trust you. You cant just earn other peoples trust that easy you are supposed to gain it. Build your trust with someone and maintain it. Whether its you alone or with someone else. "We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk." -Thomas Moore
meaning its the way you gain other peoples trust.
8. Quick to listen slow to wrath
Reflection: We should all be quick to listen and get things done. Getting things done is great you feel like you have finished your accomplishment. "But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rather than speaking the truth for the right reasons we may want to make our point defend our position or put the other person down. The truth be told but it should be done at the right time for the right reasons and with the right attitude. That's why we should be quick to listen.
9. Lead with vision
Reflection: This is trying to say that you should have a vision in mind. If you have something in mind i say you should go for it and so for your vision. Be a leader in what you want with a vision. Become a leader and help others become one as well with a vision in mind. I think that leadership is a good thing that can really help because you are trying to become a leader and lead with a vision. You are not here merely to make a living."You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
10. Manage with a plan
Reflection: We should all manage ourselves. Have a plan set for yourself and manage it. "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them." Paul Hawken Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. Management is doing things right. Be a leader manage your plan.
11. Do what matters the most.
Reflection: Always do first what matters to you. For example school. We should all put school first and get our work done. To me i put school first and my family as well. To other people they might put other things first but we all put the most important things first. "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. Steve Jobs"
12. Be accountable.
Reflection: We should all be responsible for what we do. “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.” Bill Bullard. When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
Reflection: These twelve ways of becoming your best are very helpful if you really apply them to your life. If you really want to become the best and in a good way you can use these twelve ways. These ways can and may help in a lot of ways in your daily life. If you really want to you will do your best to become the best and you will be able to see it in yourself.
Reflection: This means you should always be yourself. Be true to yourself by being yourself “Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.” Vera Nazarian By being true you have to make good decisions for yourself. I think that by making a decision for yourself that you think is best for you. Always be true to character no matter who it is be yourself. It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. Be true in everything you say or do.
2. Use your imagination 
Reflection: We should all be quick to listen and get things done. Getting things done is great you feel like you have finished your accomplishment. "But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rather than speaking the truth for the right reasons we may want to make our point defend our position or put the other person down. The truth be told but it should be done at the right time for the right reasons and with the right attitude. That's why we should be quick to listen.
Reflection: This is trying to say that you should have a vision in mind. If you have something in mind i say you should go for it and so for your vision. Be a leader in what you want with a vision. Become a leader and help others become one as well with a vision in mind. I think that leadership is a good thing that can really help because you are trying to become a leader and lead with a vision. You are not here merely to make a living."You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.
11. Do what matters the most. 