Mon - January 30, 2006

..., what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life


Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

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Tue - January 3, 2006

...powerfully affect our circumstance.


It is inspiring to realize that in choosing our response to circumstance, we powerfully affect our circumstance. When we change one part of the chemical formula, we change the nature of the results.

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Thu - December 1, 2005

what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life


Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

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Wed - November 2, 2005

Proactivity & Responsibility


Proactivity - as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

Responsibility - "response-ability" - the ability to choose your response.

Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconscious, is a value-based choice or response.
"No one can hurt you without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
"They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." Gandhi

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Fri - October 21, 2005

Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.


We have conscience - a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that govern our behavior, and a sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with self-awareness, free of all other influences. And we have independent will - the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences.

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