Your life shouldn’t be influenced by your emotions or mood.
It should be influenced by your decisions and plans. That’s the first step to achieving independency.
Being proactive is the opposite of being reactive. Reactive people reacts to everything.
They do good when they feel good. They always react to the circumstances. When the weather is good, the sun is shining, they feel good, and they do good because they feel good.
They are said to be reactive to the physical environment around them. When they are treated nicely they feel good and they do good as a consequence.
That’s is a social reaction. On the other hand, proactive people don’t get affected by the outer weather or the social treatment because they are not reactive.
Their motive comes from within them not from outer sources, because these outer sources are not reliable. Weather for example, can change and be cloudy, so it is not good to be influenced by it.
Proactive people carry their own weather with them
They carry their own responsibility.
They don’t blame others on their mistakes and failures. When they do something wrong, they take full responsibility of these things and try to fix it.
Concern and influence
their is 2 circles we have in our lives, the circle of influence, and the circle of concern.
The circle of concern represents all the circumstances around me and things that are affecting my life in a sort of way.
The circle of influence represents the same things that affect my life, but the difference is that these are the things I have control on and can change.
What he is trying to say is that we should focus our energy on our circle of influence rather than draining it on the whole circle of concern.
If the stock market is doing bad, although this might affect your career and money, but you don’t have control on it, so stop worrying about it and worry about your job to get a raise or something.
