Proactive: You can DO it

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Proactive You can DO it

• Group 1
• Andrew Lui
• Jordan Chun
• Julie Chung
• Jack Liu
• Mathew Chung
• Nick Leonard

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What does it mean to be proactive?

• Being proactive is a learned skill. Being
  proactive is being courageous in taking risks.
  Being proactive is learning from one's own
  mistakes and learning from the mistakes of
  others. Being proactive is creating
• desired results. Being proactive is
• moving your self forward.

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Being Proactive

• Taking Responsibility for ones own life.
• Proactive people
• don't blame genetics,
• circumstances,
• conditions, or
• conditioning for
• their behavior.

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How to become Proactive

• Having a positive attitude towards life
• Use language such as -I can, I will, I prefer.
• Focus their time and energy on things they can
  control.

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Example
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Signs of Proactiveness

• Self-awareness the understanding that you do
  have a choice between stimulus and response. If
  someone insults you, you can choose not to become
  angry. If you are offered a donut, you can choose
  not to eat it.
• Conscience the ability to consult your inner
  compass to decide what is right for you. You can
  make decisions based on unchanging principles,
  regardless of what is socially favored at the
  moment.

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Signs of Proactivness contd

• Creative Imagination the ability to visualize
  alternative responses. By using your imagination,
  you can mentally generate and evaluate different
  options.
• Independent Will You have the freedom to choose
  your own unique response. You arent forced to
  conform to what others expect from you.

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Proactive or Reactive?

• What is the difference?

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Your chance to be choose!

• Each day everyone is given 100 chances to choose
  whether to be proactive or reactive.

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Take 100 Responsibility

• People are always blaming their circumstances
  for what they are. I dont believe in
  circumstances. The people who get on in this
  world are the people who get up and look for the
  circumstances they want, and, if they cant find
  them, make them. George Bernard Shaw, Mrs.
  Warrens Profession

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Reactive choices

• Telling people off and hitting them when you are
  upset
• Going into a depression
• Calling people a two faced liar and giving silent
  treatment
• Spreading vicious rumors

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Proactive Choices

• Forgiving others
• Confronting one and sharing how you feel
• Ignoring it and giving others a second chance

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Proactive v.s. Reactive Language

• Reactive Language Proactive Language
• Ill try I do it
• I have to I choose to
• I cant Theres gotta be a way

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How being proactive pays off

• Are not easily offended
• Take responsibility for their choices
• Think before they act
• Bounce back when something bad happens

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How being proactive pays off pt 2

• Focus on things they can do something about and
  dont worry about things they cant
• Always find a way to make it happen

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4 Steps to being proactive

• Self awareness- I can stand apart from myself and
  observe my thoughts and actions
• Conscience- I can listen to my inner voice to
  know right from wrong

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4 Steps to being proactive Contd

• Imagination- I can envision new possibilities
• Will power- I have the power to choose

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We can control only one thing

• We cant control everything that happens to us
• We can control how we respond to what happens to
  us.

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Be Proactive!

• Its good for you ?