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1.."Proactivity" DefnedIt means more than merely taking initiative. It means that as humanbeings,we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of ourdecisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. Wehave the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen. Look atthe word responsibility -- "response-ability" -- the ability to choose yourresponse.

ighly proactive people recogni!e that responsibility. hey do not blamecircumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. heirbehavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values,rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. #ecause weare, by nature, proactive, if our lives are a function of conditioning andconditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default,chosen to empower those things to control us.

In making such a choice, we become reactive. $eactive people are oftena%ected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feelgood. If it isn&t, it a%ects their attitude and their performance. 'roactivepeople can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shinemakes no di%erence to them. hey are value driven( and if their value isto produce good )uality work, it isn&t a function of whether the weather isconducive to it or not. 'roactive people are still in*uenced by e+ternalstimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological.#ut their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconscious, is a value-based choice or response. $eactive people are driven by feelings, bycircumstances, by conditions, by their environment. 'roactive people aredriven by values -- carefully thought about, selected and internali!ed

values.

Taking the InitiativeAct or be Acted UponListening to our Languageirc!e o oncern. irc!e o In#uence 'roactive people focus theire%orts in the ircle of In*uence. hey work on the things they can dosomething about. he nature of their energy is positive, enlarging andmagnifying, causing theirircle of In*uence to increase.Direct$ Indirect$ and %o ontro!

&'panding the irc!e o In#uenceThe "(ave)s" and the "*e)s"The +ther &nd o the ,tick-aking and eeping o//it/ents

0..*egin ith the &nd in -ind T-A!! Things Are reated Tice 2 "#egin with the nd in ind" is basedon the principle that all things are created twice. here&s amental or /rst creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

ake the construction of a home, for e+ample. 0ou create it in every detailbefore you ever hammer

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the /rst nail into place. 0ou try to get a very clear sense of what kind ofhouse you want.

*y Design or Deau!tLeadership and -anage/ent 33 The To reationsIn the words of both 'eter 1rucker and Warren #ennis,"anagement is doing things right( leadership is doing the right things."anagement is e2ciency in climbing the ladder of success( leadership

determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.