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Exercise Your capacity for proactivity rather than reaction

Exercise Your capacity for proactivity rather than reaction

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Being proactive means that you take responsibility for your actions rather than blame your entire life on external circumstances.

Proactive people believe their mood or behavior is a function of their internal engineering. Rather than blame others for failure, they seek the way forward. They view life in terms of 2 concentric circles:

•CIRCLE OF CONCERN

•CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE

The circle of concern is filled with the things we worry about: the bills we need to pay, the loans we need to refund,etc.

This circle is quite big.

Inside this circle is a smaller circle called the circle of influence.

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