Your impact on others
Your Impact On Others How do people feel after they’ve been with you? Honestly, what impact do you have on others? Are they encouraged? Do they feel depressed? Are you even aware that your attitudes and behaviors affect everyone with whom you come in contact? If you are sad and withdrawn, then you may pass that on. If you’re smiling and energetic others might begin to feel influenced even if they didn’t start out that way and unknowingly, you have changed their mood. Or is it possible that you don’t even think about the influence you have on people because you are too busy talking and sharing your problems? Is it possible that your idea of a conversation is a verbal ping pong match? I talk...ping...you talk...pong...resulting not in a conversation but in a game of verbage one upmanship. I believe that many people go through life not really understanding the influence that they daily exercise. I realized in college that if I didn’t reach out to others, then I