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🪞We each have a wide range concerns - our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which we have no particular mental or emotional involvement by creating a "circle of concern". 🧊As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no control and others that we can do something about. We could identify those concerns in the latter group by circumscribing them within a smaller Circle of Influence. 𓆱 By determining which of these 2 circles is the focus of most of our time & energy, we can discover much about the degree of Proactivity. ✦ Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying... Causing their Circle of Influence to increase. ◌ Reactive people on the other hand, focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern. They focus on the weakness of other people, the problems in the environment, and circumstances over which they have n'and control. Their focus results in blaming and accusing attitudes, reactive language, increased feelings of victimization. The negative energy generated by that focus combined with neglect in areas they could do something about, causes their Circle of Influence to shrink. ♟️As long as we are working on our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us. We aren't taking the proactive initiative necessary to affect positive change. 🩶Because of position, wealth, role, or relationship ; there are some circumstances in which a person's Circle of Influence is larger than hit/her Circle of Concern. ▨ This situation reflects on a self-inflicted emotional myopia - another reactive selfish life-style focused in the Circle of Concern. Though they may have to prioritize the use of their influence, Proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively ✓. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ✿

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