Daily Influence

Our best opportunity as humans to make our best decisions is in the present moment.  When we have balance of our understanding and focus on the task at hand, and all that has influenced us for that task, we can be our best self.  Living in the present can be difficult, our minds like to digress, wander and visualize the past and future, putting us into that comfortable focus where we create opportunities for us to miss something.  We will discuss how to Live in the Present.

In Episode 5, we discussed the tendency we have to fall into our subconscious mode; or what we like to call Comfortable Focus.  Each human has one to many places they fall into this primarily human trait.  We talk about identifying your own comfortable focus triggers and how gaining control of them can lead to a more productive slow down moment and open you up to more productive individual influence.

We dive into individual focus and how to achieve it during this time in humanity where distraction is the norm.  Being deliberate is one action that can slow us down and gain us focus.  We will discuss how to create opportunities for deliberate acts and gain better focus as we learn to practice slowing down.

Our largest chapter in Individual Influence, Find the I in Team is Slow Down.  We have spent the past few episodes exploring the concepts of Thinking Forward, Environmental Urgency, our Subconscious Mode or Comfortable Focus and Immediate Gratification; all attributes that lead to going too fast.  In this episode we will reflect on these as we begin our pivot Focus and how it can be achieved.

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.

Have you ever had someone speaking to you and you don't hear them?  Maybe your spouse trying to get your attention, while you're watching TV or doing some other focused task.  This is our subconscious mode or as we like to call it; Comfortable Focus.  We are going to address how each of us can fall prey to our individual Comfortable Focus and go too fast and miss what is going on around us.

We continue with our dive into how to Slow Down to go faster. One of the most influential aspects of our lives, that make us go faster, is our environment. The urgency of the demands as put on by not only self, but our peers, workmates, family and technology in our back pockets; are all attributing to each of our own challenges with environmental urgency as it pertains to going too fast in our lives.

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.

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.

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.