Be Proactive
We're in charge. We choose the scripts by which to live our lives. Use this self-awareness to be proactive and take responsibility for your choices. Reactive people take a passive stance -- they believe the world is happening to them. They say things like:
"There's nothing I can do."
"That's just the way I am."
Proactive people, however, recognize they have responsibility or "response-ability," which Covey defines as the ability to choose how you will respond to a given stimulus or situation.
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- Proactive people use their power tools: self-awareness,conscience,imagination and willpower.
- Proactive people make choices based on values. They think before they act.
- They use 'Proactive language' like, instead of saying" I can't, they say, " there's gotta be a way."
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