Habit 1 – Be Proactive
“In the most fundamental sense, Habit 1 is the awareness of this space between stimulus and response – between what has happened to us and our response to it. Next to life itself, this self-awareness and our freedom to choose, to direct or lives, is our most precious gift and power.

The hard moment or test of Habit 1 is to be aware of and to choose to live your own life. It is seeing yourself as the programmer, not as a program being acted out. Regardless of the social and psychic scars you may carry inside, regardless of how others treat you, regardless of the disappointments and strains and setbacks which may blindside your finest intentions, you see the space between all that and your freedom and power to respond to it.” – Stephen R. Covey