Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.

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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

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The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

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To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

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