Increasing Your Influence

Here are some notes form the Dessert Night in Christchurch

Increasing your influence.


1. Lead yourself

Develop self discipline

People will seek you out because you have habits that people know are good, but neglect.

What areas of self-discipline do you need to improve?


2. Know the purpose of your influence.

Its not about you, your power, or ego.
Its about being a vessel of God. How will you influence people for him?

When people cross your path how will lives be different because they were influenced by you?


3. Get out of your way

Don’t let your age or personality limit you influence. 1 Tim 4:12

You have opportunities each day. Move out of your comfort zone.

How are you limiting yourself right now?


4. Raise the bar

If you have the same standards as everyone else, your influence is diminished. People are influenced by those they see ahead of them.

How could you raise the bar in your life?


5. Make people feel significant


People want to feel important. It is a basic human need. No one likes to feel insignificant.

If you, by your words, action or attitude make people feel significant, you will have influence with them.

Who can you make feel significant?


6. Develop your gifts

What are you doing to grow?

Use your gifts that God gave you, but develop them

Listen and learn.


7. Choose who will influence you.

Surround yourself with peers who will encourage you.
Find mentors who will help you grow.
Follow the writings of the experts in books and blogs.

Posted by Braden Matson