Grab your journal because what I'm about to share could completely change the trajectory of your life in five steps.
This is our final core session - Session #6 on INFLUENCE - and it connects directly to step number two of my 5 Step Clarity Blueprint: "Clarify Your Social Interactions."
But first, let me tell you about a weekend that reminded me why influence matters so much.
Last weekend in Scottsdale, Arizona, I attended my business group called Ultra. It was tiring, but incredibly refreshing because I was surrounded by people who want to do better in life.
There's something powerful about interacting with people who want to improve, grow, and exceed their current limitations. It lifts up your game too. That's the essence of influence - and there's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting more. If you want more, become more.
This experience reinforced why it's so important to collaborate with people who want to grow and become more in life.
Today's goal is to help you gauge how influential you've felt in your relationships, at work, and in your mission - then give you tools and concepts to immediately increase your level of action and influence.
Consider these questions across all 10 arenas of your life as you work through them:
Think deeply about this. Who has had the greatest impact on you? Write down their name and really reflect on their influence.
What specifically made them so influential? Was it their words, actions, presence, or something else? Understanding this reveals the blueprint of true influence.
This shifts the focus from receiving influence to giving it. Who in your life could benefit from your improved influence and leadership?
Get specific. What actions would you take? How would you show up differently? What would you start doing that you're not doing now?
This is equally important. What behaviors, attitudes, or actions would you stop? What negative patterns would end?
At our Ultra seminar, I heard Lewis Howes speak about his career-ending NFL injury. After his injury, his sister let him stay on her couch. He was hurt, getting fed, and had what seemed like great excuses to stay there.
But then he asked himself a powerful question: "Why am I still on this couch?"
He realized he could have stayed on that couch with a hundred excuses. He was comfortable, but he was also stuck. That question changed everything for him.
I remember my own challenging time in 2009. I could have let a bunch of excuses keep me where I was - stuck and comfortable, but miserable.
Here's the question we all need to ask: Are you going to let another day slip by, another year slip away, without change in your life? Are you going to stay stuck, burned out, or lost, just stewing in that place?
It's so easy to hang onto our excuses for why we're not going to make that change. Another day becomes another week, another month, another year - all too frequently, all too easily.
But what if today was different?
Don't let another year slip away without change, feeling stuck, burned out, and lost.
I want to give you the same 5 Step Clarity Blueprint that I used to help me take my next step, to get unstuck, to breakthrough, and to make the change I needed to make. These are literally similar tools to what Lewis was talking about - getting off that couch and becoming more.
This blueprint includes:
Here's what I want you to do right now:
And here's something special: I'm also going to give you an opportunity for a virtual strategy session with me at a discounted rate, so you can work through this on your own time. We've been doing strategy sessions in person, but this virtual option will help you breakthrough on your schedule.
This is Dr. Howard Dennis, your certified high performance coach, and I hope you decide to not let another day go by without change.
Request this Clarity Blueprint. Get off your couch - whatever that couch represents in your life. Go out there and become more.
Your influence determines your impact. Your impact determines your legacy.
Don't wait another day.
Dr. Howard Dennis, CHPC
Your Certified High Performance Coach
Ready to get off your "couch" and increase your influence? Text "CLARITY" to 423-460-9757 for your FREE 5 Step Clarity Blueprint. Your breakthrough is waiting.