Be Proactive: the choice is yours

Between any stimulus (someone insults you, a meeting goes badly, a plan falls through) and your response, there is a space. The size of that space is the measure of a man's freedom. Frankl's contribution from Man's Search for Meaning: even in a concentration camp, the last freedom that cannot be taken is the freedom to choose your stance toward what is happening. Reactive people collapse the gap to zero. Proactive people stretch it as wide as they can.