“Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response.
Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.” 

~ Stephen R. Covey from “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”

Be Proactive.

That’s Habit #1 of Stephen Covey’s uber-best selling book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.”

So what’s it mean to “be proactive”?

In short, to be proactive simply means to be “response-able”—to be capable of consciously choosing how you respond to any given situation.

We don't want to be Pavlovian dogs—mindlessly responding to a given stimulus in our lives?

We want to step BETWEEN the normal stimulus --> response patterns of our lives and CHOOSE a new response to a given stimulus. Yah?

So, today's question: How can we be more proactive and less reactive today?

Let’s be proactive. Let’s be response-able to the challenges we face in our lives.