Be a proactive in daily life is not only going to become easier on working on something, but also will help you to become a better individual. Be a proactive means be a person who has initiative to control any kind of situation, not only wait until something appear then you start to action. Most of the company are more likely to get a attracted with your proactive action, it is very a good step for all of you and especially if you are a fresh graduate. However, you must have a knowledge to differentiate between proactive and ‘proactive’ or act like you know everything in fact not, because it will reflect a bad impression toward your image. Be a proactive means that you are brave enough to make a change based on value and principle that applied, instead of you try to be proactive but it is only because of your mood. Let us see the tips to become a proactive in a proper way below:
1. Control Your Emotion and be Positive
Your positive emotion is one of important aspect for someone can become a proactive. A proactive person will always control his/her emotion so the negative emotion will not affect the decision that they might to take later, uncontrollable emotion will reflect that you are unprofessional person. The other advantage from controlling your emotion is your environment will see and become positive as well as your positive manner result, so always try to control your emotion and be positive!
2. Dare to Take Action
Have you ever experienced in situation where you have a problem to your work that push you to take the action? If yes, that is actually a time where people can see your truly self. A reactive person are tend to wait an instruction then start to make an action, the proactive person will initiate to start the action and think what is the core of the problem that they face, then try to find the answer that might become a solution. Be proactive is not only wait until something happen, but make it real.
3. Predict Every Opportunity
Getting used to anticipate problems that might happen is one of the reflection of proactive person. They will carefully try to understand on how things work, and then try to connect the creativity and logic so they can fully understand the things that going on or in the future. Try to make a scenario that consist of problem chance that probably going to happen and the step that you going to take from each chance.
4. Grow Your Sense of Initiative
We are not only talking about working area, but being proactive also can be implemented in your social life. You may ever see some of your cheerful friend and with all of sudden he/she become moody and separate his/her self from us, that is a right time for you to approach him/her and ask about the problem that he/she had. If there is a problem try to give an advice and solution to lighten up his/her mind.
So those are 4 ways that you can do to become a proactive person. But always remember, that sometimes we need to become reactive person in several conditions. Therefore, always try to adapt and be flexible with your environment where ever you are.