Daily Influence

How we communicate with ourselves is as important as how we communicate with others.  One of the pitfalls we humans have is lying to oneself about the status of a situation, oftentimes due to emotions.   We will unpack the importance of effective and positive self communication and what that actually looks like.

Communication is the foundation of human connection and understanding the foundational aspect of communication influence is essential to positive individual influence.   We begin to dive into the foundation of how humans communicate and what effective communication looks like in high performing relationships.

We close out our specific discussion about Bias and set us up for our move to Communication next week.   Our recap will recall the initial discussion about the three biases we have to deal with as (I)individuals: Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Bias.   We then review identification of those biases and how we react to bias within our specific areas of influence.   We then unpack the actual...

Every bias we deal with has the potential for unintended consequences.  Learning about these for our conscious bias is powerful as it shines a light on influence we may not know we have been wielding.   Understanding the unintended consequences of our sub/unconscious bias is also powerful and can be more dramatic.  We unpack this issue here. Produced by NOVA Media

In this episode, we will be unpacking the different bias we live with. All of them can be conscious, subconscious and unconscious biases.   The list includes:  Confirmation Bias Affinity Bias Similarity Bias Beauty Bias Halo or Horn Effect Bias Contrast Bias Gender Bias Age Bias Performance Bias Likeability Bias Attribution Bias Maternal Bias Intersectionality Bias As we unpack these, we will disc...

Understanding how and why we react to the different biases in our life is important.  We unpack the responses we experience and how making them known and understood is another positive individual influence that can help us be our best self. Produced by NOVA Media

Episode 41 is our focus on identifying Bias as Conscious, Subconscious or Unconscious Bias.   Each bias is unique in that how we identify them and what we can do with them once identified is different.  Conscious bias is easy. We are conscious of the bias and understand why we are biased towards whatever it is we have the bias on.  Subconscious bias is a bias that, oftentimes, is exposed without a...

Episode 40 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 posit...

In this episode, we review and reflect on the power of Individualism.  This is a cornerstone of The I in Team Series and why the Daily Influence is so important to us.  Our individualism is made up of our Attitude and how we think can set our attitude.   Our maturity is defined by our individualism and how we perceive and interact within our individual and collective selves.  Maturity can be uniqu...

In our opinion, Prosperity is the positive cumulation of all we do.  What this means is that prosperity is not defined by the same things for all people; it is itself very individual.   When we finally define our own prosperity, we finally set ourselves free and become more individual in a way that makes us our best self.   Prosperity can be defined for companies in much the same way and when the...

Failure is one of life's most opportune times to learn something that can offer the most advantage.  As Henry Ford stated, "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." When we change our perception of failure, we create opportunities and advantages from failure. Produced by NOVA Media

In this episode, we discuss Goals and the importance they play in being our best self (I)individual.  We are strong advocates of SMART: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely  SMART goal setting is the prelude to SMART tactics and offers us the best opportunity to prepare to reach whichever place we are striving to reach in our areas of influence.  SMART also offers us the best opportunit...

Willpower is our inner voice that keeps up the motivation that can keep you going forward toward a milestone or goal, when quitting seems like the only option.  Our attitude and maturity can play a big part of our willpower.  Our foundation can also influence our willpower and understanding these aspects is key to managing our willpower and being able to build it back up.  Key takeaways are unders...

Maturity has little to do with age, and we will discuss this in Episode 34.  Your maturity is determined by how you act in the world, within your areas of influence.  How you respond to the differing issues in your life can influence the perception of your maturity for self and others.  Maturity is not synonymous with positive influence. It is not good or bad, and it is individual to one's par...

One of our goals at The "I" in Team Series and with our Daily Influence podcast is to further the importance of Individualism.   The next few episodes will be diving into this effort and why we feel the common understanding of individualism is incorrect.  We have previously identified that singular individual to us or when we are writing about one person alone, we use the lowercase 'i&...

Today's episode is a reflection of our Foundation discussions.   We began with Self-Awareness and how understanding self is an important aspect of our Foundation.  We talked about our habits - good and bad - and how understanding our habits can help us create and maintain a positive environment for ourself and our areas of influence  We moved to a discussion about Character and how our charact...

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 unde...

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 t...

Your Character is the culmination of your behavior in all aspects and is generally measured by your influence on self and others.   How we communicate and how we perceive others' communication can be influenced by our character.   We discuss the differences between personality and character, and how  these can be confused and lead to pitfalls and/or opportunity.   Measuring character takes tim...

We all have habits - good and bad.  Habits are those automatic actions we have as humans that can oftentimes define part of us.   Creating and overcoming habits is the discussion today and we dive into the different kinds of habits and how to better understand our own habits and those of others.  

Self-awareness comes from self-exploration and self-discovery.  As we always do, we urge you during any self-reflection that if you experience anxiety or negativity, you seek support from a licensed professional or close friend/confidant to help work through the issues causing the negativity.   The goal of becoming self-aware is understanding where you're at today in your mind and accepting th...

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 journ...

Getting clarity in your life will require using the tools we have been discussing for the past 24 episodes.  Slowing down and gaining focus about our individual influence and that which influences us will help to bring clarity to our lives.  We can begin to or understand fully what our purpose is as an individual. And yes, we each have a purpose and we each matter.   Using the new understanding (c...

Believe it or not, we all have intuition.  I like to call it our minds' roadsign to opportunity and challenges.   When your mind offers up something that is often perceived as Intuition, slow down and pay attention.   If you look back at your individual experience with intuition, you may find a pattern that develops that can be learned from and can be used to help you be your best self in the...

We all lie to ourselves. Most of the time, they are white lies.  However, self-deception and self-justification can impede our understanding of who we are and can get in the way of opportunity and understanding of what may negatively influence us.