1. Habit 1
Be Proactive

2. Proactive vs Reactive
Reactive people make choices based on emotions, feelings, their moods and on impulse
Proactive people make choices based on principles/values

3. Examples of Reactive and Proactive choices
Turn to page 50-Read Scenario 2
What are the consequences of the Reactive choices?
What are the consequences of the Proactive choices?

4. Reactive Language
I have to
I’ll try
Others

5. Proactive Language
I’ll do it
I choose to
Others

6. Reactive people feel like
Victims
Are easily offended
Blame others
Get angry and say things they regret
Whine and complain
Wait for things to happen to them
Change only when they have to

7. Proactive people feel like
They are NOT easily offended
Take responsibility for their choices
Think before they act
Bounce back when something bad happens
Always find a way to make it happen
Focus on things they can do something about and not about the things they can’t

8. What can we control? We can’t control everything
Our skin color
Who our parents are
How others might treat us
Weather
We can control our how we respond to what happens to us

9. Responding to setbacks
We can turn our thinking around to respond to a negative by making it a positive
An accident
Abuse
Our home life

10. Becoming more Proactive
Take responsibility for your life
Have a CAN-DO attitude

11. Just Push Pause
When you have a situation you want to respond in some way think…
Just Push Pause
Use your 4 tools in your toolbox
Self- awareness-stand apart from myself and look objectively
Conscience-I listen to my inner voice to know what is right and wrong
Imagination-I can envision new possibilities
I have the power to choose

12. Human tools in action Use your principles to help make choices
Use your proactive language
Turn negatives into positives
Have a can-do attitude
Use the tools to respond