Proactive or Reactive? It's up to You Everyone makes choices. Their outlook on life, whether at home, at work, behind the wheel or at the theater, directly correlates to the decision to be either positive or negative. In essence, it's as simple as whether you see the glass half full or half empty. As author Stephen R. Covey puts it in his much publicized book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,* you can choose to be proactive or you can choose to be reactive. He takes his theory a step further, saying that a proactive stance leads to greater success and contentment. From that perspective, a reactive person is sabotaging himself or herself.
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Cherry Creek Mortgage Illinois Residential Mortgage License LMB #0005759 Cherry Creek Mortgage NMLS #: 3001 - Saint Charles, IL
Vice-President of National Production
I'm Proactive....this is great for most of us....I can still use this to create more proactivity...
May 03, 2007 01:34 PM
no thanks - Harlem, MT
Great post! I definitely choose to be proactive and at the end of the day I'm happier and healthier for it. I think that our clients benefit from our proactive approach as well. Cheers to highly effective people!
May 03, 2007 01:41 PM
first american lending - Riverside, CA
Thanks for the feedback and I agree they do benefit from us being proactive. Many times that is what gives us more business.
May 03, 2007 01:44 PM
Keller Williams Integrity First - Scottsdale, AZ
good points...we as humans are unquestionably flawed - and without getting too philosophical here, yet we have an innate goodness about us...we are intended to be good...and now without getting evangelical...it is when we find some spiritual outlet that we truly feed our souls what it needs to be nurtured, to be happy and to not "sweat the small stuff"...
Cheers,
Uzi Husain
Arizona Realtor, serving Goodyear & The Phoenix metropolitan area
May 03, 2007 02:17 PM
Maximum One Greater Atlanta Realtors - Atlanta, GA
Selling Atlanta Homes like a Boss
Great post - I am graduatually transition from reactive to proactive, I can appreciate the value of being proactive more now that I am in Real Estate.
May 03, 2007 02:31 PM
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