Be Proactive and Take Charge of Your Life

Most mistakes are byproducts of accidents and lack of preventions. They say accidents happen but so do preventions. You can take actions to control your environment. Eliminate accidents by practicing preventive measures. It is thinking before acting. Accidents usually happen due to our reactive nature to the environment. The act of taking preventive measures is being proactive in our actions. Taking charge of your life means to take responsibilities of your decisions and their subsequent consequences.

Would you rather guide your actions based on your surroundings or your own will? The environment is the stimuli, an agent for you to react and respond. A response is the action you decide to do: a response at your own will. One thing you will always have in this situation is that you choose to respond because you are response-able. If you choose to be happy, you feel and be so. If you choose to be mad, you feel and be so. If other people act in a way that makes you mad, rather or not they are intended towards you, then you get mad. Or wait, you can still choose not to be mad.

Remember, you are response-able and it is up you. You have the freedom to choose a response regardless of your environment.

Let me share with you the story that was told by a speaker during a personality seminar. The speaker shared an interesting story that applies in our daily lives. The story pertains to Tiger Woods’ training.

You all know that Tiger Woods is one of the best professional golfers in the world today. Tiger’s weakest game is when he has to pitch the ball from the sand. He is terrible whenever the ball is in the sand pit. Regardless of his focus and determination, he just cannot seem to aim good whenever he has to hit the ball out of the sand. What do you think Tiger and his trainer worked on? They did not focus on his swing, his form, nor his determination and focus. It was simple; they practiced on making sure that the ball does not go into the sand pit!

Ever since then, he became the best golfer of all time. Let me repeat, accidents happen but so do preventions. Tiger took the time to practice and chose to prevent the ball from going into the sand pit.