The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) / quote 78 of 203
Proactivity means responsibility for our lives
While the word proactivity is now fairly common in management literature, it is a word you won’t find in most dictionaries. It means more than merely taking initiative. It means that 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.