How Being Proactive Makes You a Highly Effective People

It lies in your perspective

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Being proactive means that you are fully aware of the circumstance, thus choosing your own decision against it. You take the responsibility for your life. You choose how to respond to every situation. After all, responsible means “response-able”.

While the opposite is reactive, being driven by feelings from circumstance, and blaming the external factors. They are often controlled by situations since they don’t have the ability to adapt and change their perspective.

Proactive people focus on things they can do something about: health, children, habits, problem at hand.

Reactive people focus on things outside their reach: weather, government, people opinion.

Proactive people rely on themselves.

Reactive people are very dependent.

So How Can You Be More Proactive?

1. Start taking action: plan ahead about what will happen in the future and act accordingly, make a little effort to do less-urgent tasks rather than putting them off before they become a serious issue in the future. Prioritize works based on urgency and importance, use Eisenhower Matrix.
2. Embrace responsibilities: You have your…