Taking Initiative

TAKING INITIATIVE

(A skill that enables us to start things, even though we may have wonderful knowledge and ideas)

HUMAN NATURE

Human beings are the only ones who could be innovative with their thoughts and actions.

We as human beings are very special and unique with the emotions and intellect. No other creature in the world is concerned about using the resources of the world as a whole but just uses what they require. Human beings are highly intellect that urges them to be innovative in all of their thoughts and actions.

They are the only beings who could make the world constructive as well as destructive.

In the process of applying the thoughts, there cannot be always positive results but surely there will be some learnings from it. The nature of human beings is much complex and the actions can be sometimes critical too. The actions of human beings can be constructive at times and destructive at times.

All the Creatures in the World, follow a set of beautiful patterns through which we could learn many things. But human beings are extraordinary.

We cannot neglect the beauty of nature and the patterns followed by the creatures. Also, we can learn many things from the regularity, unity and many other amazing characteristics of different creatures. Still, all the creatures don’t have the ability to Discrete and understand except human beings, that makes humans extraordinary.

Human beings have such a creative power through which we flew in the sky like a bird, swim in the waters as fish with something that is invented.

No other living being in the world except human being have established the buildings, materials, or machines for themselves.  Human beings, by their creativity, produced airplanes and helicopters to fly in the sky like a bird and produced ships and submarines to swim and float in the waters. People continuously use their creativity to invent and discover something.

Though everyone has the ability and Knowledge in something that others don’t have, they fail to expose it because of not taking initiative.

Every one of us is unique in our ability and knowledge and surely have something to contribute to the cause of others. But most of the times only a few people are successful in climbing up in their ladder by expressing their ability and knowledge to convince others, most others suppress themselves by not taking any initiative.

WHAT IS INITIATIVE?

The initiative is the ability to assess and initiate things independently.

We all have a lot of thoughts and ideas as we perceive and analyze things around us. But all our thoughts and ideas are not executed as actions or innovations because of not knowing how to start and where to start. The initiative is just starting the things and taking the first step to do something new and independently after assessing.

The initiative is the power or opportunity to act or take charge.

There are many people in the world who work hard to achieve a common goal with different ways of doing. But there needs a starting point and an opportunity to be found, acted or taken charge. Waiting for a good time and good resources may not be helpful always. We need to be active in doing things at the right time with available resources.

The initiative is the first step towards acting something.

There is always a first step towards doing something interesting and innovative and it is the base for achieving the desired goal. The initiative is the first step that is taken towards starting something, in order to achieve it.

Everyone has great thoughts to achieve, help or create but without initiating, nobody could get to the mark they want to reach.

As human beings, we have wonderful thoughts to achieve something desired, to help the needy people or to create something better or new. But without starting to act in order to execute the thoughts, no one could ever move to the mark they had desired to reach.

WHY WE NEED TO TAKE INITIATIVE?

To achieve something new, we need to take initiative.

Every one of us desires to create something new for getting the attention of others. But there are hindrances within ourselves as the world around us doesn’t accept it immediately. So taking the first move is crucial and being initiative helps us to take the first step confidently.

To help someone in need, we need to be initiative.

Most of the times we resist ourselves in helping someone just because of not taking initiative. Even helping someone in need may not be possible at times, because of the only reason, not being initiative. Taking the initiative is needed to help someone.

To express our thoughts or ideas and to impress others with it, we need to be initiative.

We think a lot about many things but we don’t express our thoughts and ideas with others by being dumb. We need to be expressive in order to be open and clear, and then only we can negotiate things and move towards improvement. In order to express ourselves or impress others, we need to take initiative.

To solve a problem and to develop the Leadership skills we need to be initiative.

We don’t take the responsibility very easily and that’s the reason, only a few people are leaders and others are followers. Taking initiative is one of the key Leadership skill and it helps a person to be responsible for others, solving the conflicts.

WHO AND TO WHOM WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

Everyone should take initiative in things they are able to do and in things there is a need.

There are always certain things we are interested in and we are skilled, we need to take initiative in the things we are able to do. Also, we are responsible where we enjoy our rights and privileges and we need to take initiative when there is a need.

We should first take initiative among our closest circle i.e. Family, School/ College/ Work spot, etc.

Though we are responsible for all the places where we are related directly or indirectly, we need to first take initiative in the closest circle where we are an integral part such as the Family or School or College or Work spot and so on. `

Then, we should consider taking initiative in the Society, Environment, etc.

After taking initiative in our closest circle, we can consider taking initiative in the broader places of our engagement such as society and environment, at least when there is a serious crisis or problem.

WHERE WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

We can take initiative in our home.

The home is the first place where we belong and where we are a proprietor. So we need to take initiative with all our responsibility in the home

We can take initiative in our School/ College/ Workplace.

The School or College or Workplace is the next place in which everyone plays a vital role next to home. We are there in those places with a purpose and we need to be initiative for our own growth.

We can take initiative in our Society/Environment.

The place where we are a part, enjoying all the privileges is our Society/ Environment. We take the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat from the environment. So we are responsible for one another and the environment and should take initiative.

WHEN WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

We can take initiative in the home to help, when the family members are making some important decision and act it out.

Most of the time we take advantage of our close environment and don’t really care about the happenings, as there is not much compulsion over things. We need to be aware that east or west, our home is the best and help our family members in making some important decisions over many things and help them to execute it.

We can take initiative in the School/ College/ Workplace, when there is a need to create something, a need to take the responsibility or a need to present something.

After home, most of us spent our time in school, college or work spot and we had taken or given some responsibilities there. We try our best to follow the instructions and complete our task but when something is needed beyond the curriculum or work we are given, we just ignore it. We need to take initiative to learn something new and create something in the School/College/Workplace.

We can take initiative in the society when some problem/crisis needs to be solved and when there is a lack of proper leadership.

All of us live in a home that lies in a street, district, state, country, and the world. So ultimately everyone is responsible for society and needs to be a steward to everything in which the privileges are enjoyed. We cannot and needn’t be taking things over our head always, but we can take initiative in the society at least when some problem/crisis occurs, that should be solved immediately. Also when there is no one to lead the people due to lack of leadership, we can take initiative. 

HOW WE CAN TAKE INITIATIVE?

We should be confident of ourselves while taking initiative.

Unless we trust ourselves, we cannot make others trust us and take responsibility by being initiative. We need to be confident of what we know, what our ability is and what we are able to learn while taking initiative.

We should be Rational and beware of the pros and cons.

Thinking twice about the consequences, positives and negatives will be much helpful. We are much emotional at the problems or crisis and lose our control while taking initiative about certain things. Being rational and predicting the following will be much helpful.

We should manage our Time and learn something new to increase our awareness/exposure.

Without knowledge about certain things to relate various things, we couldn’t be able to take any responsibility and execute it. So managing the time efficiently by learning new things and increasing awareness or exposure to many things will stimulate us to be initiative.

We should develop our tolerance skills and we shouldn’t trust others voices when it is fault finding/ negative always.

People don’t act positively to us always. There will be rejections, mistrusts and negligence as people are different and they have different expectations with different needs. We need to develop our tolerance skills and needn’t trust others when they always find faults and negatives. It will enable us to be initiative.

We need to develop a relationship with good people and seek their knowledge/experience. 

The valuable resources are the people around us. Relationships with good people around us will always be useful to us because of their knowledge, expertise, and experience. We feel the strength that there is someone to support when there are good people around us and that will be pushing us to accomplish something by being initiative.

We should not fear the failures and should not be carried away through success.

There is no one in the world who could say that they have never faced anything that they had never desired. Always there will be some undesirable things happening around that couldn’t be avoided many times. We should not fear the failures that are hidden but see something good in everything we experience. Also, we should not be carried much by success, to be initiative.

We should set right our attitude with the right values and contribute our part, wherever we are responsible.

When we are with the right values and virtues, with the right attitude, we always strive to be worthy, responsible, useful and selfless. We try our best to accomplish our responsibilities and contribute our best for the welfare of one another by being initiative. 

RESULTS OF TAKING INITIATIVE

When we start taking the initiative, our leadership skills are developed.

Taking initiative doesn’t happen around us much. Whenever there is a call for volunteering towards something, many people don’t turn up considering themselves to be inefficient or unskilled or less concerned. But taking initiative will help a person to develop leadership skills.

Taking initiative makes us independent and we could act without looking at others.

Most of the times we follow someone or something without knowing or analyzing the background of things by not using our mind. But taking initiative helps us not to be leaning on others and helps us to be independent. We can frame our own rules and procedures for acting towards something in the right way by having the right values.

When we take initiative, we could develop our Problem-solving skills and learn something new.

We needn’t know everything before starting to do something. But when we don’t have the right attitude and take something, we will leave it just because we don’t know anything. Taking initiative will be helpful in developing ourselves to find solutions for the problems arising out and thereby learn new things in the process of finding solutions in order to accomplish the goal.

Taking initiative helps us to fulfill our responsibility, wherever we are and whatever we do.

We are all responsible for many of the places around us. At times there will not be many people to ignite and make us do something. Taking initiative will help us to fulfill the responsibilities that are given or taken, wherever we are associated and whatever we commit ourselves to do.

Taking initiative helps us to achieve success at times, Joy at times and satisfaction at times. 

The first step we move is the big step, as it is the foundational stone for success. It involves a lot of emotions and rationalization. Taking initiative helps us to take the first step and we can taste success by altering things and learning things even though there can be slide backs or unexpected things. There will be Joy and satisfaction all the times when we don’t stop trying out things, as we are initiative all the times and even change the targets at times that are much worthier.