Proaction and the “possible you”
Proaction is the “possible you” that:
- spots and prevents problems
- identifies, pursues, and captures opportunities
- creates a new self-chosen, desired future through a strategic change of trajectory.
MORE IDEAS FROM THE ARTICLE
- Think well ahead.
- Make sure your decisions suit your own values and interests.
- Think strategically.
- Proaction requires not just thinking but doing.
- Learn and adapt rapidly through trial and error.
- Grit matters, but you also need to learn along the way and adjust.
RELATED IDEAS
Start with a clear destination to determine your steps. Identify your values and live by them.
- Visualize in detail your own funeral. What are they saying about how you lived your life, and your relationships? What do you want them to say? Change your priorities accordingly.
- Break down different roles in your life - whether professional, personal or in a community. List 3-5 goals you want to achieve for each.
- Define what scares you and write down exactly how you'll handle it.
Focuses on helping another person learn in ways that let him or her keep growing afterward.
Its purpose is to increase effectiveness, broaden thinking, identify strengths and set and achieve challenging goals.
It is based on asking rather than telling, on provoking thought rather than giving directions and on holding a person accountable for his or her goals.
It starts where our notion of ourselves and the world grows so strong that it begins to distort the reality which surrounds us.
The ego has then succeeded in completely separating us from the world.