It’s the fire within that makes one influential

Your continued pursuit and passion for excellence is directly related to your ability to persuade and influences others. The successful habits behind this strategy include:
• Form you own opinion based on facts which can change depending on what you carefully learn from others / environment but don’t be persuade by trends
• Seeking to genuinely understand the “why” and “what if” in order to enhance your knowledge in a way that is not disruptive or challenging to someone else
• Facilitate 2-way conversation that explore new concepts and ideas or thinking out of the box
• Narrow the distance between degree of separation – by getting to your network / connections and there’s as well in order to collaborate and leverage knowledge
• Dispel distractions and focus on insightful dialog and dismissing matters that are not of importance
• Entertain healthy / productive debate as to further your understanding in pursuit of the right and holistic conclusion instead of merely proving a point
• Being proactive by anticipating options and next steps, then sharing with everyone else
• Think before you act when responding to ensure the correct / appropriate message is conveyed without allowing emotions to overreact
• Believe – that you can make the difference no matter how high that feat might be
#Forbes on 9 Habits of Profoundly Influential People