Do you know being proactive in your life is a definite sign that you will eventually attain great success?

What are the signs which confirm that you are being proactive ?

• When you are proactive you take full responsibility for your actions.
• You do not depend on others for your work.
• You do not give excuses for your non-performance.
• You do whatever is necessary for your success, with confidence and assurance.
• You do not wait for your success to be handed over to you. You take the initiative.  

Yes!

Most of you face failures or delayed success, because you wait for things to happen to you. You never understand that it is you who must move towards your success. Success will never come galloping towards you.

You have lot of excuses for being inactive and stagnant in your life.

“My time has not yet come.”

“I think I am destined to fail.”

Do you have such negative attitude towards your life?

Be assured that you will be an utter flop when you have this mindset.

It is because when you do not take the initiative to give your best, you can never hope to achieve anything worthwhile in your life.

How can you ever hope for success if you do not even try?

How will you know your talent unless you use it?

A few years back I was very hesitant to display my writing talent.

“What if I fail?”

“What if I face negative comments?”

“What if I had no viewers?”

Questions like these used to plague me.

Sure enough, I did nothing, achieved nothing and was a nothing.

One fine day, it dawned upon me that I was delaying because I had no confidence in myself. Finally, I realized I had only two choices before me.

To take the initiative to write and be successful.

Or to procrastinate in bringing out my writing talent and be a non-entity.

I chose the first option.

I took a paper and pencil. I wrote my strong and weak points.

My weakest point – I delay too much before beginning any work.

My strongest point – I am very persistent after I started my work.

I decided to take my strong point as my weapon. I became persistent. I developed a never-say-die attitude. I started writing. I now have two blogs which deals with various relationship and life shattering problems.

When I started being proactive, I began to see the dawn of my success.

Can you see why being proactive in your life is of paramount importance?

Here are simple tricks you too can try.

1. Never ever delay your work

Do you delay your work as I did?

Never ever do that

You are delaying your success.  Success is never easy. You have to work, very hard to achieve it.

Do you feel smug that one day you would achieve incredible success without any efforts from you?

You are wrong.

Unless you are proactive, you will definitely fail.

Being proactive in your life, does wonders to you.

• You develop many life changing characteristics.
• You never procrastinate your work.
• You gear yourself up to work relentlessly and persistently.

2. Positive thoughts should be your mantra

Do you have negative thoughts?

• Your negative thoughts will freeze you into inaction.
• When your thoughts are dull and negative you will not act.
• You never understand that unless you take actions, your success will definitely elude you.

How can you be successful when you do take not actions to make it a reality?

Be very positive.

• Positive thoughts lead you to be proactive.  
• Your thoughts become authentic and decisive.
• Your actions become very authoritative and dependable.

A clear way to success!

2. Always understand, that it is now or never

When your mind says “some other time,” you will wait for an eternity for your time to come.

• Invariably your time never comes to you.
• Time is always the same for everyone.
• You have to move along with time.
• Time never waits for you.
• When time throws opportunities your way, grab it.
• Otherwise your opportunities will disappear.

Your mind should be tuned to the attitude of “do it now.”’ Your speed in moving into action instantly, when opportunities comes your way, brings success closer to you.

Being proactive in your life, makes you understand you have to act now instead of later.

4. Strategy your action

When you blindly plunge into action, you can never be proactive.  There are many stumbling blocks on your way, which can divert your success.

So, plan your strategies.

• Research the pros and cons of your work.
• Plan how to change, your cons into pros.
• If certain work is tiresome and grueling, do it another way.

There are a plethora of different ways to achieve your success without draining yourself away.

Try it!

5. Understand that you need people

Do you think you can do all your work by yourself?

Quite impossible!

Can you build a house singlehandedly?

You cannot. 

• You need people to make your work perfect.
• Analyze the type of achievement you are aiming at.
• Select right persons, who are knowledgeable about it.  
• Allocate your work with trust.
• Be friendly and supportive.
• Never be degrading and distrusting.
• Encourage them to do their work, with least delay and with optimum precision.

This is one great trick to being proactive in your life.

6. Write down your plans

Never think that your mind will prod you to act on its own.

Your mind needs reminders to be proactive.

• Write down the plans for your work in a paper.
• Number it according to its importance.
• Have a look at it daily.
• It is incredible how when your plan gets embedded in your thoughts, your mind goes into action to make it a reality.

Perfect planning gives you an aerial view of what you should do for your success.

A clear signal you are proactive.

7. Be problem solving

You will definitely face many hurdles which might delay your success. Success in life is that difficult. Great success is even more an uphill task. 

More like the making of the movie Titanic.

• Do not brood about your problems.
• Think about the ways to solve it.
• Never drag your feet thinking you might fail.
• Act without delaying.

The words, delay and procrastination, never exists in the book of a proactive person.

7. Take a step by step action

Do not rush things. You will do everything wrong.

• Take one action at a time.
• Be perfect in it.
• If there are flaws in your way of working, rectify it.
• Do away with unwanted work, however hard you might have worked for it.

A proactive person is ruthless in deciding what is needed, and what is unneeded for his success.

Tick the work you have done. Be ruthless in your self –analysis about your work.

Appreciate yourself even when you achieve a wee bit of success. Self-appreciation gives you great energy to be proactive. 

8. Be very assertive and self-confident.

A proactive person is always assertive and confident. 

• You should not buckle under the pressures you face in your path towards success.
• Never look back at your failures with apprehension.
• Move ahead, forgetting your failures.
• Failures are precious lessons to do things better, nothing else.

You should have a high opinion of yourself to be proactive. Low opinion makes your efforts halfhearted and feeble.  

9. Do not ask too many advice

You should listen to the advice of others.  It does help you. But the decision has always to be yours.

• Too much advice can confuse you.
• Others do not know the intensity of your dream. Only you know it.
• So, work with freedom and liberty.

“Too many cooks spoil the broth” doesn’t it?

10. Analyze the work done

Before retiring to bed, analyze the progress you have made. This habit is a must if you want to be hundred percent proactive for your success.

Do you feel satisfied with your work?

Very good!

You have been proactive.

Do you feel you have lagged behind?

Never mind!

There is always a tomorrow.

But plan your work well in advance, for a better next day.

Yet another simple strategy, for being proactive in your life.

Conclusion

“Don’t wait for a new year to change your perspective. Get up and be proactive today”- Unknown quotes.

A mountaineer scales the top of the mountain by his sheer will power and grit.

He prods for space and pull himself up, inch by inch until he reaches the peak of the mountain.

You too should inch towards your success, equipped with confidence, positive action, systematic research and insatiable energy.

Do you have these essential qualities?

Now, you are indeed being proactive in your life to scale the peak of your well-deserved victory.