What are the 3 major barriers to influence? Fear, greed, and impatience.
What do these 3 barriers have in common? All are emotions. Once you learn (and conquer) the psychological impact of these emotions on having influence you step on the path to being an influence expert.
1. Fear. The most driving emotion in our makeup. Fear raises our uncertainty – about decisions about actions. These common fears hold you back from having influence: fear of risk, fear of rejection, and fear of failure.
Fear comes out of negative thoughts. How many times do you say, “What if . . .?” or “I’m not sure that I can . . .” or (my favorite) “I can’t . . .” What you get from these negative thoughts is lost opportunity, rejection, and failure. Everything you wanted to avoid in the first place.
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