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 feeling. β¨ Stephen R. Covey (2004). The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, p.71, Simon and Schuster
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- Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. β¨ Stephen R. Covey (2013). The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, p.69, Simon and Sch β¦ βΆ
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