YOU can be more than reactive personality: Be Proactive
“Be Proactive” is habit #1 from Steve Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . Being proactive means taking conscious control over your life, setting goals and working to achieve them. Instead of reacting to events and waiting for opportunities, you go out and create your own events and opportunities . Being proactive means that instead of merely reacting to events as they happen, you consciously engineer your own events. Most people think reactively. And reacting to certain events is all well and good. But it becomes a problem when that’s all there is to a person’s life — nothing more than instinctively reacting to stimuli. Steve Covey points out that there’s a gap between stimulus and response, and within that gap lies the potential for us to choose our response. Four special human endowments give us this power: Self-awareness – the understanding that you do have a choice between stimulus and response. If someone insults you, you can choose not to beco...