So often in life we action a reactive focus and mindset. We wait until things go wrong, till things breakdown or till there is a change, challenge or adversity before we take action. We react to the stimulus, the situation, the thought, the emotion the person or the event. A reactive mindset
A proactive approach focuses on eliminating problems before they have a chance to appear and a reactive approach is based on responding to events after they have happened. The difference between these two approaches is the perspective each one provides in assessing actions and events.
To be reactive is to be ready to react or respond to something else — as opposed to ready to act on one’s own. A person who’s reactive does things only in response to others. To react is to do something in response to something else. When someone pinches you, for example, you react.
Proactive and reactive behavior. To refresh your memory, being reactive means that you don’t take any initiative or make strategic decisions in life, you just go where life kicks you; and then you react to what happens to you, sometimes with positive, but more often with negative feelings.
Proactive: Acting before a situation becomes a source of confrontation or crisis
Reactive strategies are those techniques used in an emergency or crisis situation to gain control of dangerous, out of control behaviors
