Stephen Covey: Be Proactive
Inspired by: Stephen Covey
From: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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“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.
Inspired by: Stephen Covey
From: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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