437 GID 4 Ways to Be More Proactive

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Instead of waiting for something outside yourself to rescue you from circumstance, take action to create the life you want. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2jDWVou

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0:00.0	This is Steve Robbins.
0:04.6	Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:08.8	It's fun to be young.
0:10.2	Other people take care of us.
0:11.8	They solve our problems.
0:12.9	They feed us.
0:13.5	They clothe us.
0:14.4	And they wipe our chins when we accidentally dribble.
0:17.4	Oops.
0:18.2	They even give us goals.
0:20.1	Get an A.
0:23.3	Graduate from high school. Build a drone that can spy on the neighbors. Stuff like that. And then we hit the real world. And there's no one driving
0:28.6	our lives except us. But sometimes we don't notice the change. We just keep waiting for the
0:35.4	direction from other people that will never, ever come again.
0:40.5	Have you ever had the thought, I wish that they would take care of this? I wish that someone
0:46.2	would clean up around here. Oh, I wish the government would bring back my job. I wish my company
0:51.6	would train me on the skills that I need for a promotion.
0:55.0	These thoughts are red flags. When you encounter them, it is a sure sign that you are still
0:59.8	living reactively. If you want to drive your own life, you need to be proactive.
1:07.1	Don't wait for permission. Being proactive begins with not waiting for others to tell you what to do.
1:13.4	Now, we could wait for instructions from bosses, assignments from teachers, or suggestions
1:17.8	from our schmuppies.
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