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

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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

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

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

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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

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