N5 Entrepreneurship 3.2.1 Proactivity


There is a tendency amongst many people to blame someone else for their situation. It means that factors beyond their control are determining their lives. This is probably true and our country’s history supports this argument. The arguments for this belief can be divided into three categories, namely:


• Genetic determinism It means that your grandparents handed it down to you. It refers to aspects such as your temper, the colour of your skin or even the tendency to suffer from heart diseases. It runs in the family and you have inherited it. You can take a few precautionary steps, but it is you and you’ll have to live with it.


• Psychic determinism his refers to how your parents influenced you. Your upbringing and other experiences contributed towards the formation of your character. You are shy and unable to speak in front of people, or worse, a member of the family abused you as a child. These experiences will be with you for the rest of your life and they explain some of your behavioural patterns or actions. You have more control over this part of your personality.


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You and only you can decide within yourself how all of this is going to affect you. We are responsible for the rest of our own lives.


• Environmental determinism Government policy, your boss or the economy of the country influences or affects you. They are responsible for your situation and they are to blame.


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Stephen Covey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LM4C1l70U


One or all of these factors could have contributed to your present situation, but you and only you can decide within yourself how all of this is going to affect you. It means that we as human beings have a choice and it is this choice that sets us apart from the rest of God’s creation. We are responsible for the rest of our own lives. We have the ability to choose our responses to all crises or difficulties that we may encounter. We can choose not to be the victim of other people’s choices or actions and become proactive.


Proactivity means taking the initiative. If you plan to open your own business, you are proactive. You are not waiting for someone else to give you a job; you are probably going to create a job for someone else.


Aspects linked to proactivity: • You take the initiative. • If you don’t act, someone will act for or against you – perhaps to your disadvantage.


• Listen to your own language – not someone else’s. • Realise that you do influence other people and that you can expand that influence further.


• Your influence over other people means you must become more responsible.


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