Every time people talk about one person's influence on other people, they always fail to realise the importance of the person's influence on himself. As you cannot give what you don't have, the level of influence you have on yourself will deterrmine how easy it is to influence others. Positive influence is a two-way thing - influence on oneself and influence on others. Whatsoever you cannot make yourself do will be difficult to make others do. People are first influenced by what they see.
A story was told of a man who made his living by selling balloons at a fair. He had balloons of many different colours, including red, green, blue, and yellow. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium-filled balloon into the air. When the children saw the balloon go up, they all wanted one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon and his sales would go up. All day, he continued to release a balloon whenever the sales slowed down. One day, the balloon man felt someone tugging at his jacket. He turned around and a little boy asked, ''If you release a black balloon, would that also fly?" Moved by the boy's concern, the man replied gently, ''Son, it is not the colour of the balloon, it is what is inside that makes it go up.''
The truth is that you can only give what you have. It is only the values you've built into yourself that will easily flow to other people. People will only be influenced by what has influenced you positively. If our world must change for the better, it must be from individuals. By influencing yourself with the right attitudes and beliefs, people will naturally be influenced by you.
In the next couple of weeks, we shall be looking at how you can influence your own self positively. Our world must change for the better and this must be through positive influence. Changing the world through positive influence. Cheers.
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