Learning English Communication

Act Or Be Acted Upon You can notice a major difference between people who take action and those who are acted upon. The person who takes action is multiple times more effective compared to the one who is acted upon. Taking initiative or taking action helps you create a balance between your P (Production) and PC (Production Capacity). Taking the initiative will build a proactive muscle, which helps you develop habits that make you effective. If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon, and growth and success will take a different path. Just before the 2008 recession, a few friends started a business. Then the recession came, and their business stopped. Day by day, their business shrank, and they had no idea what was going to happen next. In the first month of the recession, they sat together and discussed what was going to happen. The market was very bad, trends were not good, and the next few months were likely to be worse than the current situation. By the end of the meeting,...

Be Proactive The first thing you need to do when you're thinking of becoming effective is to first be proactive. 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. Look at the word responsibility "response-ability" the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feelings. In making such a choice, we become reactive.  Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They ar...