Taking OWNership: Are you Proactive or Reactive?

Reactions are like second nature now. No one questions them. The weather influences my mindset. My dinner plans influence my excitement for the day. The nature of my tasks influence my productivity. Everything is dependent on something else that, more often than not, is completely irrelevant. These are examples of what taking OWNership is not.

What does taking OWNership mean anyway?

Taking OWNership is that feeling of consciously choosing how each moment of your day will pan out. It’s about using every opportunity you get to the maximum to envision your future. It’s about infusing each moment with a sense of gratefulness for everything that has happened and a sense of motivation for everything that will. It is not about you being an actor in a movie, whose every action is determined by something or someone else.

But the reality is far harder. Because, more often than not, circumstances force us into a position where we have to make decisions while we are drowning in an uncomfortable commotion rather than choose our actions consciously. This is a reaction. It is an act of succumbing to one’s immediate circumstances and…