Izzy KiverPresident, Covenant of Education · President at Covenant of Education

Circle of influence | Izzy Kiver #shorts #influence #motivation

Name: Circle of influence | Izzy Kiver #shorts #influence #motivation
Uploaded: 2024-05-13T20:30:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 31 s
Channel: Izzy Kiver
Description: In this short motivational monologue, the speaker explains that you cannot directly change other people's behavior or immediate health metrics, but you…

13 May 2024 · 2 min

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In this short motivational monologue, the speaker explains that you cannot directly change other people's behavior or immediate health metrics, but you can focus on your own circle of influence—what you can control—by adopting an internal locus of control. Anything outside this circle is labeled a "circle of worry" and should be set aside. The speaker illustrates the principle with two practical examples: improving health by changing habits such as exercising and eating better, and increasing salary by researching higher‑paying positions and preparing to qualify for them. The core message is to shift attention from uncontrollable external factors to controllable actions and behaviors that ultimately influence desired outcomes.

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If someone is bothering you, whether it's a friend, a spouse, a stranger, you come to realize you cannot change their behavior directly. Focus on your circle of influence of what you can actually do, or your internal locus of control. And everything that is outside of your circle of influence we'll call your circle of worry. Just try pushing that aside and deleting it. What you can do, however, is you can change your response and the way you're going to react to it. It's the same thing with our health. You can't directly just snap your fingers and then change your triglyceride levels. You can't change your health directly instantly. But what you can do is you can change your lifestyle, your behaviors, your habits, go to the gym more often, eat healthier foods. And by doing those things, by changing our habits and behaviors, we can then influence the outcome that we're looking for. Let me give you an example of this. Let's say you want to 2x your salary. Yeah. You're making 70,000 a year. You want to be making 140. Instead of writing I wanted 2x my salary, I want to change that to a circle of influence statement and say, I am going to do research about positions that pay two times what I make right now so that I will be ready to interview and to qualify for those positions and do whatever is necessary in order to achieve that.