Habit 1: Be Proactive. Your Real Life Super Power.
In this blog we continue our exploration of Stephen R. Covey’s book: “7 habits of highly effective people”. The remainder of this series will focus on each of the habits. It is hard to write a blog on being proactive without sounding like a preachy parent. However, I am not writing this because I believe I have mastered it. I am writing it because I too keep forgetting that I have this power. Do we really have the ability to be proactive? If you are someone who has repeatedly tried and failed to quote “sort your life out”. You may be wondering whether it is even possible to take control of our actions. Can we actually change how we react? Or are we just hardwired by our past? Stephen R.Covey believes that we have four unique human endowments (fancy word for qualities) that grant us this control. These are: Self-awareness Imagination Conscience Independent will He argues that they give us the power to pause, reflect and act intentionally. Between stimulus and response there is a sp...