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

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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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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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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

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You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.

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

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