Tutoring advice on this cold Tuesday morning: āMake things happen by focusing your energy on task within your controlā. ā Stephen Covey Stephen Covey calls this the "circle of influence". It encompasses those concerns that we can do something about. They are concerns that we have some control over. Stephen Covey defines proactive as ābeing responsible for our own livesā¦.. our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.












