t sometimes, employees can offer valuable feedback that could make a company more productive, effective and successful. However, as I was reading Covey's introduction, I learned that I was making the same mistake that the author and his wife were making at the beginning when they were raising their son; I was focusing on others, rather than on myself. Covey made me realize that I can't do anything about the behavior of others; however, what I can always do is change my own behavior and attitudes. Therefore, I'm not anymore the employee who wants to change his superiors' behaviors, instead, I focus my energies on changing my behavior toward others, including improving my abilities related to listening, respecting, and appreciating other. The results of others towards my new behavior are somewhat varied; some behave the same way towards me as before, whereas others seem to appreciate my new behaviors and attitudes.
             Covey's first habit teaches us about the importance of being proactive. Proactive refers to look forward toward problems before they are over us. Being proactive also refers to offering something to somebody before it is needed. In other words, pro-activity is about anticipating situations. Anticipation is defined as a preventive action rather than a corrective one. As Covey remarks, some people fail to be proactive, because they believe that their lives are controlled by genetic, physic or environmental forces. People who believe in the theory of genetic determinism have the notion that their nature is coded into their DNA, and as result their personality traits are inherited from their grandparents. Psychic determinism theory claims that our childhood determines our personal tendencies, causing that when we grow up our emotions and behaviors to be closely connected to our childhood. Finally, individuals who believe in environmental determinism have the idea that factors in their present environme...