202106241529 Be proactive
Being proactive amounts to taking responsibility for your actions. Mediate your responses to events and take the initiative to respond positively and improve the situation. This is where his concepts of 202109121518 Circle of control, 202109121516 Circle of influence, and 202109121517 Circle of concern are introduced.1 Being proactive amounts avoiding allowing pressure from concerns you can neither control nor influence to negatively impact what you can control and influence.
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Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic (Rev. ed.). Free Press. ↩
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