Daily Influence

Our lives are filled with distractions, many of them anticipated and most not. Dealing with distractions and disruption is one of the biggest challenges we face; we tackle that in today's episode. 

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Episode 169 begins our deep dive into human bias and specifically conscious, subconscious and unconscious bias.  

We all have this bias, and we all can benefit from understanding our own and other's biases in the effort to have a more positive individual influence.  

We will challenge the difficult discussion and often time-volatile topic and how we can move this issue forward in its most positive way.

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Empathy is the ability to recognize, categorize, and understand the emotions another person is feeling and then respond in a way that makes the experience comforting for everyone in that particular area of influence. 

Key takeaways is understanding empathy in your area of influence.  Learning how to utilize empathy as an individual and a leader. 

Learning that empathy is not acceptance but is understanding.  

Empathy can be a foundation for positive influence.

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Perceptions are not always right. Your personality or behavior can betray you - good and bad.  Unfortunately, oftentimes, Perception is Reality. 

Even a person with good character can be misperceived.  A direct person can be labeled rude or inpatient and be of very high character.  A person who is friendly and amenable with everyone can be of low character. But perceptions can find us attracted to the friendly and put off by the direct. 

Your influence is part of the perception equation and why being responsible for our influence is so important for us individually.  

And never discount the power of context and the power it can have on clarity and perception.

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We recap the past eight episodes of The Daily Influence as we close out Who Am I? and move into discussing our individual Foundation.  

We began this segment of episodes after our Focus section, and dove right into our Ego.  Ego is uniquely human and it can be an advantage or a detriment. Episode 18 is one you may want to listen to again and again.  

Episode 19 - Self-Reflection took us on a journey of self and the challenges we face and opportunities we create when looking in the mirror.  

Episode 20 - Roots is where we landed when that look in the mirror got deeper.  Our roots don't define us. It provides us with the start of our ever evolving foundation, which is the title of our next section.  

Episode 21 - Who Do You Want To Be? is a dive into your purpose, or discovering what your potential purpose may be.  Who are you today compared to who you want to be now or in the future. 

Episode 22 was a discussion about commitment that I used my 31st wedding anniversary to launch from.  Part of who we are is the accumulation of all our journeys that include different anniversary celebrations.  

Episode 23 is a dive into the human tendency to be self-deceptive and how self-deception is a pitfall that almost never leads to opportunity or advantages.  

Episode 24 - We discuss our intuition and how it's formed from our experience. And the more we slow down and engage in the present, the louder our intuition can be in support of our present and future. 

Episode 25 - Clarity is what we seek. And when we have clarity, we are in a place where our opportunities are best taken advantage of.  

After today we move onto our Foundation and how to engage with our foundation to create our best self for us and others. 

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We have spent over a week discussing and unpacking how slowing down and gaining better focus can be an amazing individual advantage and provide for more positive opportunities.  

We started this journey into Focus in Episode 8 with Deliberate Acts and how being deliberate is the ultimate way for individuals to slow down. 

Episode 9 had us discussing the human tendency to take focus too far and have a comfortable focus; an almost hypnotic state where we lose track of our situational awareness and where mistakes, gaps and other things can occur for us. 

Episode 10, Living in the Present, brought us to another way for us to slow down, become more deliberate about our time and how we can better control the outcomes of our actions with proper focus.  

Episode 11, Intentions, is where we discussed how to be more intentional and using intentionality to its fullest advantage.  

Episode 12, Time Flies By So Quickly, is where we dive into time and our individual perceptions of time, regardless of the fact that time is the same for every individual. 

Episode 13, The Turbo Charge of Going to Fast (Multitasking), is where we talk about how multitasking almost never results in more efficiency or faster work and/or progress.  

Episode 14, The Workplace, is about where we choose to work can affect our focus.  It's not just about distractions; it's about supporting whatever influences your individual focus to help you accomplish whatever it is you're trying to do in a given moment.  

Episode 15, S.M.A.R.T., is where we dive into SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) is not just goal setting parameters. You can focus your tactics using SMART to create a positive influence as an individual. 

Episode 16, Reactions, is how we can focus on how we react to situations to create better advantages and opportunities from those influential moments that have us reacting quicker than we should be. 

Coming up next; Who Am I? Ego.

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Your workplace, wherever that may be, should be conducive to your focus.   

This is the primary theme of today's Daily Influence.  The human tendency to go too fast can be greatly influenced by their workplace.  

We'll discuss how we challenged a client to encourage his team to slow down 15% to increase productivity; it worked.  

Some environments require ‘speed of service’; think fast food.  

To manage productivity in the workplace when speed is needed, introduce policy, process and technologies that support the human and the mission they perform. 

Don’t get so focused on KPI (Key Performance Indicators) that you create ‘too fast’ moments that invite error, mistake and failure in contextual understanding that leads to failure.  

Beware of procrastination as a tool to manage your ‘go too fast’ workplace environment.

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One of the most profound understandings of our Influence is shared by Rene' in her forward to our second book, we share this with you as we launch our discussions about Being your best influence.

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Join us to review our first 50+ episodes and close out our first book; Individual Influence: Find the I in Team topics.

Join us as we showcase the quintessential ideas and seminal insights that showcase the best of The Daily Influence. Whether you missed them before or need a refresher, let’s revisit these highlight moments and elevate your influence.

One of the negative aspects of self-communication is self-deception. Humans often struggle with accountability and deceive ourselves and others with justification.  When we justify our actions, we are deceiving ourselves and creating an opportunity for negative influence.  

We will dive into what self deception looks like and how to combat people in our lives who self deceive and justify poor behavior.