Initiative is creativity, inventiveness, originality, ingenuity, imagination. Every time you respond in class every time you put together your own interpretation of a piece of literature, you take initiative. And future employer’s value can-do professionals who came up with new ideas and chart their own courses through projects, employees who are self-reliant people are self-starters who don’t procrastinate on getting the job done. They know what is required to do and do it. They don’t wait to be told many times. Succeeding in high school, college and in the career world is taking initiative. CHOOES THE RIGHT!