One book that I really enjoy is "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey and I quote the book several times in this blog. First quote " Your language is a good indicator of how you see yourself."
His habit one is to be proactive. Easy ways to spot a proactive person to a reactive person is how they speak. A proactive person has a lot of I can, I will, I prefer and the reactive person has a lot of I can't, I have to, if only.
While I am a worrier and I constantly strive to control my worrying to what I can control and to come up with a solution. As soon as I have a plan in place my worrying goes out the window.
I really appreciate this line from the book:
Instead of reacting to or worrying about conditions over which they have little or no control, proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control.
When DEF was on the horizon we were in line to learn more about how this would affect our next truck and would we make the decision to stay with an old truck or go with a new truck?
When CSA was on the horizon we immediately started looking for guest speakers who knew about CSA. I will never forget when Henry Albert was doing an informal survey and asking other drivers if they knew about CSA. One of his responses from a owner operator was " I am not worried I am not going to buy one of those new trucks!"
When the new HOS were in the works we listened in on listening sessions, we attended listening sessions and we sent in letters with our concerns. Once the rules came about instead of still complaining about how the rules changed we focused on how we could be compliant with the new rules.
I have found the more we learn the more we earn.... the more we say an educated yes the more we earn....