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Always Being Reactive is Maddening
The world is set-up to be reactive. But you have the power to be proactive.
There you are, minding your own business, doing what it is you do — and something happens.
Now you find yourself reacting to that something that happened — and your entire day has gone straight to hell.
Sound familiar? This is, more often than not, the world most of us live in.
You and I have been conditioned to accept that being reactionary to things is the way. Shit happens, you react to it. That’s how the world works.
How many times have you encountered this? Then, by the same token, how often would a little planning have avoided it?
It really can — and will — drive you mad.
Look at how many workplaces are constantly in reactive mode. Fix this problem. Put out that fire. Appease this client. Mollify that vendor. React, reaction, reactionary. It all blends after a while.
Constantly being behind the eight-ball and reacting to this, that, or the other thing is infuriating. It gets even more so when you see that, had someone used ever-so-much foresight, it was avoidable.
That, then, is even more maddening.
