There are two types of people- proactive and reactive. Proactive people are the ones who take responsibility for their lives and reactive ones always blame others. The Habit 1 teaches how to be Proactive, and think before acting.
Let's imagine a situation. You are driving down the road when suddenly somebody cuts in front of you, making you slam your brakes? What do you do? Do you fly off at the mouth? Let it ruin your day?
Or you just let it go,? Laugh about it? Move on?
Proactive one would not let this stupid situation ruin the rest of his day. Meanwhile reactive, would go into deep depression. Instead of reacting to or worrying, proactive people will focus their time and energy on things they can control.
In other words reactive people would make choices based on impulse. This means that every little thing can make them crazy, can ruin their day. They hardly forgive anybody, and never forget the bad stuff. They always blame others when they fail. Proactive people, on the other hand, make choices based on values. They take responsibility about their lives. They won't blame circumstances, weather, conditions, other people if they fail. Proactives would say "I can, I will", although Reactives would use "I can't, that's not my fault, if only".
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