Daily Influence

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.

Slowing Down is our largest chapter in book one; Individual Influence, Find the I in Team. Thinking forward is a way to slow down, get focused on a specific task and avoid some of the pitfalls of going too fast. We begin to explore the different aspects of Slowing Down to go faster.

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.

Expectations today by humans are that we get immediate gratification of whatever it is we desire. This can be an answer to a text, email or acceptance of our thoughts and actions. When we slow down and understand the perils of immediate gratification, we open ourselves to better individual influence.

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 best ways to slow down is to be Intentional. Setting intentions is making a plan for how to think and act in advance.  

Today, we discuss the difference between intentions and goals. We will share six key intentions used by Brian that may provide better context as to how intentions can be introduced into your daily life.  

Key takeaways are:

One of the best ways to slow down is to become intentional throughout your life. 

You will need motivation to guide your intentions. The chaos of your particular area of influence can act to interrupt your intentions.

Make your foundational intentions a habit.

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.

What is Influence? This is what The Daily Influence is all about, you and your influence, us and our influence. You, We all matter and understanding that our influence is important, regardless of our station in life, is important to understanding our own Daily Influence.

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.

Most people think of individualism as singular, meaning oftentimes selfishness and oneness. However, when two individuals come together for a common purpose, acting as one, they then together become Individual. Listen along as Brian introduces a new concept in (I)individualism.

How often do we actually think about the lessons we learn each day?  Our lives are a classroom, and we have an opportunity to self-educate intentionally every day, week, or whatever time frame you choose.  

Understanding how you learn and incorporating that into your life to extract from your daily influence, those actions that will educate you to improve you and your area of influence is something we should all strive to accomplish. 

Today, we review the influence of change and how making one small semantic decision about approaching it as improvement can result in better, more positive results.  

We also review the difference between Choice and Decision and how everything we do is action. There is no such thing as inaction.

When we decide to not act, we have taken action!  When we choose to not make a decision, we have made a decision.  Everything is influence; so, be mindful about your approach to decision and action. Be SMART. 

We can have many choices – think of Baskin-Robbins' 31 Flavors – but ultimately we make one decision.  

Slowing down and being SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) about how we decide can be the difference between positive and negative consequences. 

Do you or your organization struggle with change?  You might change the way you approach it and call it Improvement.  

Change is inevitable for us all and for most of us when we do it consciously, we are doing it to improve, so call it what it is and see how that one change in semantics can improve the quality of your "Change" improvement management efforts.