{"id":22853,"date":"2021-09-01T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franklincovey.co.uk\/?p=15426"},"modified":"2024-02-23T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T09:02:57","slug":"habit-1-be-proactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franklincovey.de\/en\/2021\/09\/01\/habit-1-be-proactive\/","title":{"rendered":"Habit 1: Be Proactive\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"block block-content-image\">\n\n\t<div class=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content-inner\">\n\t\t\t<h2>The Habit of personal responsibility.<\/h2>\n<div><strong>Habit 1: Be Proactive<\/strong> means more than taking initiative. It means we are responsible for our own lives. Our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. &#8220;Response-ability&#8221; is the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behaviour. Their behaviour is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of those conditions, based on feeling.<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.\u201d\u00a0<strong>&#8211; Dr. Stephen R. Covey<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn&#8217;t, it affects their attitude and performance. Proactive people carry their own weather with them. They are still influenced by external stimuli, but their response, conscious or unconscious, is a value-based response or choice.<\/div>\n<h2>The freedom to choose.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/content.cdntwrk.com\/files\/aHViPTc1MTg2JmNtZD1pdGVtZWRpdG9yaW1hZ2UmZmlsZW5hbWU9aXRlbWVkaXRvcmltYWdlXzVkNDg1MWI3ODNmYjQucG5nJnZlcnNpb249MDAwMCZzaWc9MDY0ODM5ZmY3Y2QwMjNlZDRjOTk3NDI1Yjg0Y2RkNzQ%253D\" alt=\"freedom to choose\" width=\"559\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Proactive people focus their efforts on their Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about: health, children, or problems at work.<\/p>\n<p>Reactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern&#8211;things over which they have little or no control: the national debt, terrorism, or the weather. 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