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The emphasis is distinction from reactive. Proactive means you act before something has occurred (for example to prevent it or to prepare for its occurrence), as opposed to reactive, which is acting after the fact. If you're fixing issues proactively, that means you anticipate that something is going to become a problem and change it, rather than waiting for it to become a problem and (reactively) fixing it.
Of course, the difficulty with appreciating the impact of proactivity is that it changes what happens and thus makes it harder to see what might have happened otherwise. If I (proactively) replace some machine part that was close to breaking, the result (business as usual) is less visible than if I had let it break (interrupting business) and (reactively) fixed it.