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Reactive or Proactive

Quick quiz:

1.  Which would you be more often if you could choose?
2.  Which are you more often?
3.  Is there a difference?  If so, why?

I would love to be more proactive in my life and I am working towards this.  No matter how hard I try, however, I tend to spend more time in the reactive arena than I would prefer.  And it makes me feel stress.  I know the more time I spend in the reactive, the less time I have to move things forward and create new things.  In essence, the less time I have to spend on the things I love.  So, my challenge for this week is to schedule "proactive" time every day.  Will you join me?  What will you do?

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  1. Proactive challenge - Day 1. Today I attended a preview session for a new program. It was an amazing program and while, yes, I will put it into the mix, I personally learned a lot that I can put into practice in my own life starting today. (More to come later.) What did you do today to be proactive?

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  2. Proactive challenge - Day 2. This is week, but I did it in a day that was filled to the gills with reactive tasks. Today I prewrote some tweets that I will be sending over the next few months to publicize an event I am volunteering for.

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