Proactive or Reactive? - Which Wealthy Affiliate member are you?

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Have you ever played Chinese checkers game? No? I am recommending you to try and learn to play

I started playing the game Chinese checkers from an early age. I love it so much that I’ve analysed it and ‘created’ an analogy from it, which I frequently talked about with my kids. You can call it our family’s motto to being successful.

Whether you’re playing with one or more opponent, the aim of the game is simple. Take all your playing parts, move one each when it is your turn and move forward accordingly until you reach to the other side. It can be otherwise described as moving from one home to another. No backward movement is allowed.

Sometimes when it’s your turn and you’re trying to move, the board is crowded with other opponents’ playing parts, there is no space and you become so frustrated especially when you glance over and look at your opponent’s home and see that it is almost empty.

Panic, losing focus and just not moving!

This is when you start to panic, especially if you’re very competitive like my children and I! Instead of focusing on trying to find ways and other means of moving forward, we are instead focused on the other component’s placing another of their playing part into their home.

The reactions of my children are absolutely priceless when I explained my Chinese checkers analogy. There is a definite change of game plan when the family next sit to play!

It is same with us members of Wealthy Affiliates, we need to examine ourselves and our business from time to time and assess if our strategy and techniques that we are using are effective. We need to look at it from a bird eye’s view and decide if our actions or approach to our business is that of proactive or reactive.

Are you a proactive or reactive individual?

Proactive meaning ‘Creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened’

Reactive meaning ‘acting in response to a situation rather than creating or controlling it’

It is not enough that we consistently complain that our business is not successful but still we do nothing to change our game plan. We do need to adopt different strategies if we are expecting great successful outcomes.

Characteristics of a proactive individual

  • Set daily goals and objectives as well as short term and long term goals
  • Use checklists to see if goals or tasks are being achieved
  • Use reflection frequently to ascertain reasons that goals that are set are not achieved.
  • Review Setbacks? Obstacles? Change of game/business plan strategy?
  • Use correct attitude such as being positive, confident and patience to remind ourselves that our business journey is not a ‘get-rich-quick scheme’

Start again from the beginning

Sometimes we just need to take a step back and start again from the beginning. There is no shame in starting again from scratch as long as it will push us and improve our chances to go forward. If things are not working out as our predicted goals and objectives, and our vision, we need to go back to the drawing board, revisit the 4 steps to create a successful business online and take risks that will benefit us in the long run as our lovely member Candy did this week.

We also need to remember that we are the ones that are in control of making our business successful and we need to always push forward. Examine our negative obstacles and set backs and take advantage of all the help and free resources that are available to us. We are all winners as we all experience small and large wins every day!

Until next time

Simone

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I love this article Simone. I once loved playing Chinese checkers and chess. I still love them up to now but no one to play with 😅

I think sometimes I am proactive and sometimes I am reactive... depends upon the situation.

Thank you for sharing this!

Rose 💕

I wish you were nearby, so that we could play. It would be fun😀. Thank you for sharing your feedback.

Simone, what a skillfully constructed blog post!
So engaging.

We also play a lot of Chinese Checkers in our household and the behaviours are sometimes more captivating than the game itself. 🤦‍♀️

You have provided solid and effective analogies.
I got thinking about my own proactive/reactive approaches and their outcomes.

An excellent start to my day.

Thank you for the backlink.
Much, much appreciated.

Keep writing!
Cassi

Thank you Cassi for your feedback on my post. I am really trying to be what I was in terms of my period of academic writing. I can also imagine the behaviour in your household when playing that game. 😀. I wrote this blog for myself as well. I'm happy you like it. Thank you for stopping by.

You are doing great with your writing, Simone and I am looking forward to much more.

The comments and likes you are receiving are testimony to that.

Keep moving forward!
Cassi

This is such a positive boost for me Cassu. Thank you !

Wow! I love this. Well, I am not good at chess, OK, I don't know how to play chess at all. My husband tried to teach me but I just couldn't get it.

I would like to learn how to play because I think people who play chess are considered smart.

Its true what you said about going back to the drawing board, its not easy after you've been working so hard and yet you are not seeing results.

But at the same time, if you keep doing the same thing and producing the same outcome, I guess you cannot move forward so maybe it's wise to take a different approach.

I had to sort of like start over with my skincare website, and I am still trying to figure out how I can approach it from a different angle, I moved the site to a new domain, and I think Google is not happy anymore.

Thank you for this post very insightful for sure.

Rose.

Rose, I'm sure Google will eventually 'notice ' your site and your contents. Sometimes, it just take a little bit more time than most. Thank you for your feedback. It is highly appreciated.

You are welcome, and I sure hope Google will like my skincare site again.

Definitely! To our success!

Thanks for sharing this Simone:) I'm definitely proactive most of the time and set myself goals. These are daily and long term. It's so important to keep pushing forward no matter what's going on around you. Most obstacles can be overcome, and there's plenty of help here if you need it.

Spot on KathyAnne, we need to use all our available help resources such as our lovely community. Your feedback is highly appreciated

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