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How To Act Proactively
“The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.” (Octavia Spencer)
To be proactive means that we must take full ownership of every aspect of our lives and get excited about our power to improve upon our current circumstance, whatever it may be.
Why is being proactive so important?
If you don’t strive to maximize long-term control over your life, you will lose control until you paint yourself into a corner from which you can’t escape.
Being proactive means deciding to take full control over your life in both the short and long term. If this control is not in the individuals hands, then they will always end up in a losing situation within all of the areas of their life.
If there is one thing you want, it’s control over your thoughts, habits, actions, results, so on and so forth or else you will end up miserable.
Taking 100% responsibility is meaningful.
Which of the following scenarios is more meaningful?
A) Taking full responsibility for the situation in which you find yourself in, seeking a solution, and eventually finding a solution. As a result, feeling a…
