It is customary to call a life position the attitude towards the surrounding world as a whole. It is the position in life that is decisive for the strategy of behavior that a person subconsciously chooses. Thanks to her, someone cope with difficulties, and someone becomes discouraged.
Activity and passivity
This is not to say that life position is a kind of innate factor. Many of its aspects determine the conditions in which a person spent his childhood, the examples that he met. A life position takes on concrete forms in the same way as a personality, which a person is not immediately aware of. However, although character affects both personality and attitude, you can consciously change both.
Activity in a life position determines how successful a person is. He is bold and proactive, not afraid to act and is ready for active achievements. It doesn't matter whether a person with such a position is a leader or a follower, he always has his own point of view and will not agree to violate his principles.
The opposite in properties is a passive life position. It is typical for indifferent and inert people. Such a person, rather, is inclined to avoid difficulties, to solve them for weeks. Passivity can manifest itself not only in an apathetic and depressed state, although most often such people are characterized by a lack of initiative in solving problems. It happens that a person simply follows someone else's instructions, without questioning them. Some passive people create the appearance of activity, they fuss and make noise, but the absence of a vector of behavior betrays their inertia.
Some people become passive due to the turmoil of life. In this case, passivity is often associated with aggression towards more active others, a person shows a desire to reason and “educate in the right way” those who have not resigned themselves, like him, to failures.
Proactive life position
Another subtype of life position is proactivity. Indeed, it happens that circumstances develop against a person, and he cannot do anything at the moment. Even an active person sometimes gives up under the pressure of problems. But a proactive person never gives up.
Associated with proactivity is such a thing as a sphere of influence. There are things that you cannot influence now, but there are others that directly depend on you. No matter how small your sphere of influence is, you must direct your efforts precisely on it and on its expansion. It is pointless to think and spend energy on something that does not depend on you. This looks obvious, but most people do it differently. For example, remember how often people around you complain about the government or scold the weather. If you can't change it right now, don't waste energy on it. It is absolutely certain that there are things that you can do: do as best as possible what depends on you, what you are doing now.
Acting in accordance with this rule, proactive people get out of crises faster and with fewer losses.
The most important thing to understand is that your position in life is entirely up to you. Even if you have been passive at times, you can still become active or proactive right now, and this decision is never too late.
