The 25 Building Blocks of 

Block 1: Industriousness- ("In plain and simple English this means hard work. Very hard. There is no substitute for very hard work when it comes to success.) What this means is that if you work hard, you are sure to succeed in your goals. They are and will in fact get bigger and bigger. To be successful, there is no easier way to achieve your goals, so you have to work hard. Industriousness is the meaning of hard working, or being a diligently person. It also means to be energetic, because when you are lazy you won't accomplish much, but if you are active in different ways you will accomplish a lot.


Block 2: Enthusiasm- ("It is the engine that powers all blocks of the Pyramid. It is why I chose industriousness and enthusiasm as the cornerstones of my Pyramid of Success.") This statement means that you are to be  energetic. Not always physically but also spiritually. You should have a positive mind on everything even if it's a hard situation, there is always a way to solve your problems. Being enthusiastic also makes people want to be as happy as you are, they would want to have a positive mind like yours.

Block 3: Friendship- ("Comes from mutual esteem, respect and devotion. Like marriage it must not be taken for granted but requires a joint effort.") Mutual esteem means that a friend and yourself both make or help each other feel good about themselves. Also the statement means that you both will have respect towards each other as well as devotion. The statement relates to marriage because you should only be married if you are happy with someone and if you both have respect for one another.


Block 4: Loyalty- ("To yourself and to all those depending upon you. Keep your self-respect.") This means that you have to be loyal to those depending on you. This is because you have people counting on you and you can not let them down. Being disloyal is cheating, taking advantage, and backstabbing a person. Ways to being loyal is by being honest, respectful, caring, trustful, and kind. Sometimes everyone's in need of a loyal friend to go to for advice or help. Also being loyal is supporting someone, helping them, being satisfied, and being someones positive side.

Block 5: Cooperation- ("With all levels of your co-workers. Listen if you want to be heard. Be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.") Being cooperative is being involved and working toward a common goal. What this statement means is that the meaning of cooperation is to cooperate with your team members or others around you. Also that if you want others to listen to your ideas, you should listen to others as well as you want them to listen to you. To this, you should be interested in what they're talking about, that way they'll pay good interest in you. This will make you a willing collaborator and a active citizen.

Block 6: Ambition- ("For noble goals.") Ambition is a strong desire to do something and achieve something, especially a goal. Another word for ambition is to aim, which means aim for your goal or what you want more in life. To be an ambition person is to fight and manage to accomplish your goals and not let anything bring you down, or try to aim higher than you already are because you are capable of more.

Block 7: Self-control- ("Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.") Self-control is the ability to control or regulate one's emotion, thoughts, and behavior. As in you know how to keep yourself in control, like if you are off task, you know when and how to get yourself back. Another example is when someone frustrates you or you do something wrong, you have to have self-control and let it go because you are only stressing yourself out. A way of exercise of self-control is by in-hailing and ex-haling, as well as counting to three.

Block 8: Alertness- ("Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.") Having alertness is being alert. What being alert is; whether knowing between what is right and what is wrong. Having alertness will help you in the process of making right choices and making bad ones. For example, when you know someone is about to do something wrong and they seem to approach you, you just have to walk away, and that is what being alert is. You have to stay alert if you want to achieve your goals and want to become someone better for yourself. Another thing mentioned is being constant.


Block 9: Initiative- ("Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.") Another word for initiative is being independent and having the access to initiate things. Being initiative is a really good thing to have especially when you start your life. For example when you go off to college, and no one asks a question because they're afraid, you should be initiative and ask the question yourself.

Block 10: Intentness- ("Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations. Be determined and persisted.") The meaning of intentness is being able to be sharply focused on something. Intentness is like resisting a temptation. A temptation is something that will distract you from achieving your goals. So the statement is stating to resist what will hold you back from the goals you want to achieve. Although it may be hard to stop the temptation, you have to try your best in order to succeed.

Block 11: Sincerity- ("Keeps friends.") Sincerity means the quality of being free from pretense, deceit, and hypocrisy. A word that is similar so sincerity is honesty and truthfulness. Now the statement says that being sincere keeps your friends, and it does because if you are honest to your friends they will be honest to you. Although being a rude honest is something else, like saying something doesn't go good on them, there is always a polite way to let them know. Because if you say it in a rude place they will be bothered.


Block 12: Adaptability- ("To any situation.") Adaptability is the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions. For example if something around you changes you will learn to adapt to the new things, and you will learn from it too. Not everything around you is permanent, unless you really strive for it, but you should always be prepared for a new change. Although some people get scared, you will be able to adapt to new things.

Block 13: Condition- ("Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise, and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated.") Condition is meaning the state of appearance, quality, or working order. In other words, organization skills. Being in good condition mentally, physically, and morally will help you reach your goals.

Block 14: Skill- ("A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.") Being skillful is having different abilities to do and accomplish things. Being positive is a skill, because you are seeing the brighter side, a side people don't see.

Block 15: Team Spirit- ("A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all.") Team spirit is members in a group enabling to cooperate and work well together. Having team spirit is being positive and getting to know each other no matter how different you are from that person. also by having a good censorship you are considered having team spirit. So working in a group or team accomplishes more than just yourself, four hands are better than two.
Block 16: Honesty- ("In thought and action.") Being honest is having a truthful moral character. Not cheating, lying, not being rude, etc. These are all signs of being honest. Having honesty can  unlock trust of another person onto you.

Block 17: Resourcefulness- ("Proper judgement.") To be resourceful is being able to find your way to overcome difficulties. For example, if you are across a path of a maze, find the more cleaver or better way to get around the difficult maze. If an obstacle comes your way and you feel like giving up, then you must stay positive and find a better way around it.
Block 18: Poise- ("Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation.") To be poise is being graceful and elegant, it also means perfection and fragile. It also means to have positivity in yourself and in any situation you are found in. You can be and help others be poise by keeping a straight mind under a hard circumstance and not do anything harmful.

Block 19: Confidence- ("Respect without fear. may come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective.") Confidence is being able to go out to the world and not be afraid or intimidated by anything. By being confident is by having high self-esteem, manners, and god speaking and communicating skills.

Block 20: Reliability- ("Creates respect.") To have reliability is by being kind, generous, and being trust worthy. Being trust worthy is a big part of being reliable, because others will see you as a responsible person and they will rely;count on you. You are being reliable by having accuracy in your actions. As to the quote, being reliable will bring you the respect of others because they will appreciate every well thing you have done.
Block 21: Fight- ("Determined effort.") This statement is stating that you should fight for what you really want in life. Even though something may seem hard or you feel as if you might not achieve something, you should always fight for what you really want. Instead of thinking you can't do something, you should always say you can and you will. Always strive.

Block 22: Competitive Greatness- ("Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge.") To be this is the ability to be at your best, which means that if you are able to be at your best then you should do more than your best, you should go over your limits and reach farther. Also to be competitive you are willing to enjoying and solving a challenge in your life or in a situation. A challenge helps you prepare for obstacles in your life.

Block 23: Integrity - ("Purity of intention") To have integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Integrity is basically going for something that you know is right, you don't necessarily need to know, you just have to feel it.

Block 24: Faith- ("Believe and achieve.") Having faith in yourself is giving you the passion to pursue your dreams or what you really want most. If you have faith in yourself you believe in yourself to accomplish more and become positive. Faith will also bring up your self esteem, and hopefully it helps you help others as well, because there are people who just don't believe in themselves.


Block 25: Patience- ("Good things take time.") Having patience is a really hard thing to find in people. For me it takes a lot to get me frustrated or angry. Most people and myself try to hold our temper, but sometimes it maybe a little too hard. Having patience can also help you in a lot of things and help you to get to know people more.

                          School Break Days
 During my Christmas break I stayed home and watched movies/ TV shows all break long. I also baby-sitted some kids. I didn't go out to any places during my break.I didn't meet anyone new during the break. Some movies I watched were, The Duff, Annabelle, Home, Home Alone and many more. I didn't play any sports but I did watch like 2 football games. Some Ctr experiences were I stayed in all break and that's it. I didn't read any books.

                              The 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."
 You should set a goal for yourself and have a vision about it. You should first know what it is that you want to do and once you know then you set your goal and you work hard for it.

Key 2: Competence
"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get.
When you work hard new chances will always come your way, and the more harder you work the better you get at it. Competence is a very good way of getting new opportunities come your way also because you will see where your strengths and weaknesses are. 

Key 3: Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself "Is this the best use of my time?" before you start anything.
Concentrating is a very big thing. In order to complete tasks well you have to concentrate hard on them. You also need to put much of your time to complete the tasks.

Key 4: Common Sense

• Train your mind 
• Think things through
• Listen to your intuition
• Learn from setbacks 

Common sense is good sense and sound judgment in practical matters. Common sense is also about exercising your mid and 

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.

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.

Key 7:Consistency
"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."

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."

For some people commitment is really important. For example some people commit themselves to try new stuff every once in a while. You can also commit yourself into trying to lose some weight in a certain amount days. When you commit yourself into something is because you know you will not turn around and quit. 

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

Courage is when a person has the ability to do something that frightens them. You need to unleash the courage inside you to try new things. 

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

                                       Dr. Steven Covey

What Dr. Covey did was that in 1976 he started looking for the 7 habits. He also read a lot of old books and saw that hey all talked about trust,loyalty, respect, etc. Dr. Covey realized that people could be effective and could also build up there character and apply certain habits and become a better person to themselves and to others. 

         The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first, it says, "I am the captain of my life, I can choose my attitude. I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the drivers seat of my destiny, not just a passenger."

• People who are proactive make choices based on values and they are the values that are good in life. Proactive people also have conscience and it's very important because when they something wrong the guilt will make them regret it and feel sorry. If we didn't have conscience then we wouldn't have any remorse or regrets for what we do in life. Proactive people also envision new possibilities in life. This is why every time you get the chance to meet someone successful they are very ambitious. To be highly effective is to be proactive and that's where you set yourself to be a happy or unhappy person in life.

Habit 2: Begin with the end in Mind 
"Control your own destiny or someone else will." (Jack Welch)
"When you know where you intend to end up, you know where you are now."
(Covey)

• To begin with the end in mind is to start each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction or destination. To incorporate habit 2 Into your life is to develop a personal mission statement. It will help you because it focuses on what you want to do and be. This will also be your plan for success. Now that you have a mission statement you will be the leader of your ow life. This habit is also about using your imagination because you are dreaming about what you'd like to be, and also dreaming about what you'd always wanted to do.

Habit 3: Put First Things First 

"Organize and execute around priorities." 

• Put first things first means doing the most important things in life first. It also means putting your priorities and acting on them. If you do the un-important things first you might get tired after a while and might not even get to the important things. Your very first priority should be the hard work first so you may use all your energy on that instead of the no so important stuff. Your Family should also be one of your first things you put in front of you because you never know if you might get to see them tomorrow. 

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

"Think win-win or no deal."

• You should always think about win-win so that it feels reasonable for the task. Win-win is most of the time seen as being competitive instead of being seen as cooperative. Win-win can also mean agreements or solutions that are beneficial and satisfying. To be a win-win person you have to be both  nice and tough because there win be situations where your toughness has to come out and in others your nice one. to go for a win-win you have to have confidence and be very brave.

Habit 5: Seek First to understand, then to be Understood
"Diagnose before you prescribe."

• People form opinions based on their own experiences. Sometimes we are the ones who seek first because we want our points to get across. In a conversation with someone else we only listen  to what we want to listen to. We should learn to communicate effectively because it's one of many important skills in life. 

Habit 6: Synergize 
 "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)"

• People form opinions based on their own experiences. Sometimes we are the ones who seek first because we want our points to get across. In a conversation with someone else we only listen  to what we want to listen to. We should learn to communicate effectively because it's one of many important skills in life.    

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw
"The Four Dimension of self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/ Emotional"

• These four dimensions are important because when you overwork yourself after a while you become less productive. What sharpen the saw means with this is that you should take a break but not a vacation break. Take a break and read a book, exercise, organize your home or office, or set some new goals for yourself. This will help you physically, Mentally, Spiritually, and Social/Emotionally. It shouldn't always have to be about work sometimes you just need to get to know yourself a little more. 

Reflection: 

I plan to use these 7 habits on my everyday life. I know that if I start using these habits on my everyday life right now I will succeed and become someone good in life.