7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The first section of this book focuses on being proactive. The book talks about choosing happiness and sadness, and being able to choose your feelings. I agree with the idea that you can control your own emotions, and to only allow how you feel control your feelings. Although, not relying on anyone else for happiness and not needed others to make you happy are different things. I believe a big part of this is putting everything into perspective. What is stopping a kid to just laugh when a teacher yells at them rather then being upset? If they view the situation as important and respect the teacher they will not just laugh in their face? They don't have to literally laugh in the teachers face, but the ability to not let others effect your emotions is very important and I agree with the book on that. However, if you do not let anything outside of yourself rule your emotions that leads to a very introverted and self dependent life. Which takes away a big human strength which is connecting and loving others. The books also talks about how reactive people let their environment control their emotions which in turn leads to excuses. A lot of it is in the vocabulary a person uses, proactive people are more "I can" "I will." This makes yourself believe that you can and will, your own mind has to buy into the idea of yourself succeeding in order to succeed.