I started reading Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People last weekend.  I stopped after the first habit, because I want to make a habit out of this habit before I go on with the second habit.

Maybe this is just a play about words, but I don't think that Covey's name for the first habit (Be Proactive) is entirely right for me.  Covey describes proactive as Between stimilus and response, we have the freedom to choose.  I would describe proactive as we respond even before the stimilus happens.  An example is proactive defense: attacking a country before it has done anything because you say it has weapons of mass destruction.

I've been thinking about a name for the habit that more clearly expresses its intent to me.  Since Covey's other habits have longer names, like Begin with the end in mind or Put first things first, I decided that Excercise your Right to Choose is not too long, and it expresses the meaning of the first habit better to me.