Every action that we do has an intention behind it. Those intention could be triggered either by reacting to some action or could itself create a reaction. Proactive intentions are done in anticipation of staring a work. It does not need any outer influences, it needs self initiation. A proactive person is a self motivator and is driven by his values, clear thoughts, and will power. The work or deed that needs to be attended is only visible to a proactive person he is least interested in the result or remuneration. To a proactive person there is nothing that can hinder his intentions to finish the work like irritating words, lack of accessories, shortage of time, unpleasant conditions, and so on. He does the work in his thoughts first and hence is fluent in doing the task in real. In case of some failure at work he is ready to take the responsibility and tries to learn from mistake. He looks for solutions to a problem. His actions will be propelling force for other around to work. To a proactive person IQ is not important he believes more on “I CAN.”
Reactive people react to their environment. Their behavior unfolds due to the actions of others or situation. They are comfortable if the circumstances externally are favoring them and if not it affects their state of mind and eventually their performance. When such a person is praised he works well, when he is not he goes into the shell and become inactive. Reactive people relay on the behavior of others around for their emotions to be uplifted. They always look for the weakness of the people around to have a control on them. They neither are motivators nor get motivated and are disinterested in the work and also in case of failures they have the tendency to blame others and keen on allocation of punishment. They search for problems in a solution and a means for procrastination. The words like “I can” “Let me do” does not strike to such a person.
What is it that can make a person to be Proactive?
A proactive person is always alert and is seldom caught by surprise. He anticipates future outcome well in advance. He does not wait for things to go from bad to worst and starts to attend to the problem when it is small. He plans to the core so that there is not even a single small problem that could surface. When he plans thus he gets involved himself does not delegate things to unskilled or fresher. He takes even the unskilled into confidence before the start of the project. He shares the work and the success as well with the team.
Being proactive is Sattvic; being reactive is Tamasic in nature. Being agitated is Rajasic!
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