All right, so let's jump into the first of the seven habits.

And the first habit is to be proactive.

And at the beginning of this chapter, it's a, it starts with a quote which says "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor," Henry David Thoreau.

So I love these two last words conscious endeavor, and that's basically what we're going to go into in more detail here.

The first thing you need to understand is that your life is a product of your values and choices and not your feelings and conditions.

Well, at least it can be if you choose to make it that way.

So the first thing to take away from this first habit is that you are the creative force of your own life.

So another way to put that is that you are the one in the driver's seat or in the book it gives the metaphor of you being the computer programmer that is going to create the program for your life.

And he says that the best way to predict your future is to create it.

And the way in which you do that is by being a proactive person.