Inspiration Station - Under The Influence

We all possess influence, but many of us fail to recognize its power or misuse it, allowing our unhealed wounds to affect others, especially the next generation.

• Everyone has influence regardless of whether they acknowledge it
• Many people feel they have no influence due to personal wounds or circumstances
• Our influence transcends generations and shapes how others see the world
• A doctor's story of being snubbed by his sports idol affected him for decades
• The doctor almost prevented his daughter from meeting her favorite player
• Small positive interactions can heal years of hurt and change perspectives
• Looking for opportunities to bless others always pays us back in full
• Our daily actions around children teach them more than our words
• Unresolved offenses can unconsciously influence how we raise our children
• Taking time to listen and show compassion creates lasting positive impact

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Chapters

• 0:31 Welcome Back to the Inspiration Station
• 1:33 Being Under the Influence Explained
• 4:20 The Doctor's Story of Rejection
• 7:37 Two Lives Changed by One Decision
• 9:06 Small Opportunities to Make an Impact
• 11:24 Episode Closing and Call to Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:31

Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to the Call Me, mr you and the inspiration station. Thanks again for making us part of your week. Uh, man, I'm glad to be back with you guys. It's been a little bit of a break not, uh, of my own accord, dealing with some uh, being being under the weather and some stuff like that but I'm glad to be back with you guys, ready to rock again. Glad you're listening to the inspiration station. If you're listening, audio only, of course, on Apple Podcasts, amazon Music, etc. Thanks for listening. Please subscribe to this show on Apple Podcasts or Amazon Music. Let us know that you love us. If you're watching us, please jump on our YouTube channel, youtubecom, at the CallMeMrU. Please let us know that you love us by hitting that subscribe button. Please like and share some videos as well. Share with some friends and family, those that you care about. Encourage them, as you guys encourage me. So I definitely appreciate all the support and the love coming from you guys. Let's get this rolling.

Speaker 1: 1:33

I want to talk to you guys about being under the influence. This is not really about under the influence in the way that you guys might normally think about that. This is just a little bit different. I realize, especially in today's times, that we rail against people who misuse their influence, whether it be in media, in politics, even in the churches and in ministry, or even in family dynamics. We rail against that when we see it being misused. But what do you do when you are misusing influence yourself? How do you view that? How do you adjust and get realigned with where you should be using your influence?

Speaker 1: 2:14

We have influence all around us. If you are a believer, like myself, in Jesus Christ and in his lordship and in the word of God, then we have an influence to be what the bible says is salt and light, salt in the earth and be the lights of the world, to be an example, to be role models, to be a representative of a kingdom that we don't really see around us all the time, something that's better for us than what we're seeing, to be clear. But outside of that, we have influence in so many ways. We have people out here on social media calling themselves influencers because they influence you to buy things that you may not ordinarily think about buying. So they call themselves or have a title as the influencer. We ask them what's their occupation and they say I'm an influencer, that's their job. They wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night under that auspice that they are influencers.

Speaker 1: 3:06

Are we using our influence the way it was designed and intended? Are we doing it at all? Are we even acknowledging that we have influence or are we living in a shell, thinking that we're so wounded that we can't accomplish anything or serve anybody or help inspire and encourage anybody? There are people who are listening, and I know you are, because I hear from you guys outside of this video or outside of our podcast and our show. I hear from you guys and many of you feel as though you don't have any influence. I want to try to break that off for your life today, in Jesus' name, that you know you do have influence. You were born with it, it's in your DNA, you have it inside of you. Yes, it may be suppressed right now. Yes, it may be in hindrance a little bit about things going on in your life, even things in your own mind, even thoughts that are not even your own thoughts, or even things that you entertained in your life, that you watch, you listen to, you hear. Maybe even it's because of friendships and associations that you have around you that limit your ability to be the influence that you're supposed to be. We can do all those things. I hope that this is an impact to you, this episode. Today. I want to talk to you about influence real quick, because we should all be under it, just the right kind.

Speaker 1: 4:20

There was a story of a doctor. He grew up, you know, being a sports fan, a big fan of baseball. He finally got a chance to meet his idol and got a chance to get that most valuable autograph from his idol no-transcript, the one he watched and rooted for his entire childhood life. He got a chance to get that autograph and his idol snubbed him. The person he looked up to snubbed him, excuse me and it broke him. It left a scar on him to the point even as a grown adult he didn't watch the game as much he moved away from the game that he grew up loving because of that offense, even to the point that even his children he even passed the offense on to them.

Speaker 1: 5:15

One day he was walking in his an area where he lives and he saw him and his daughter saw a sports star. Uh, wasn't surrounded by entourage or anything like that. He was just out there and his daughter recognized him because that was his daughter's favorite basketball player, but because of the hurt that the father already had experienced. When the daughter said, can we go and meet him and take his picture? He said no, not because he was being cruel, but because his hurt was still fervent, it was still active and he didn't want his daughter to feel the kind of hurt that he carried for years. His daughter was impacted by his influence. Excuse me, had he dealt with that, it could have been a different scenario.

Speaker 1: 6:03

But what ended up happening was, long story short. They continued to his. They continued to ask him please, please, continue to beg our dad, please have his autograph. Opportunity's right there, it's available. He decides to do that. It turned out very well. The doctor was very surprised because he thought that all athletes were like his favorite athlete, who snubbed him, who had a bad day and didn't give him an autograph. And it broke his heart. His daughter was over the moon. It created memories for her, just that picture with her favorite basketball player.

Speaker 1: 6:35

And what it also did, not only for the daughter, it also changed the father's life. That doctor saw the whole world from a different prism, from a different view, saw the whole world from a different prism, from a different view. He's like you know what I'm living in the fence and almost hindered my daughter from achieving her dreams because of what I was dealing with, because what I allowed to influence my mindset and what I think about athletes, or I think about people in general or the world around me. See the picture there. Two lives were changed, two generations were changed.

Speaker 1: 7:04

Just because he allowed himself to not be led by the influence that he'd been struggling with, the challenge, the constant thoughts, the grieving, the offense that he was dealing with. He could have handed his daughter a whole different generation and felt like in the same way he was. See how easy it is for us to do that. We talk about being under the influence, but we don't realize how much we impact other people. Had her thinking the same way he was. See how easy it is for us to do that. We talk about being under the influence, but we don't realize how much we impact other people and we don't realize that around our kids, when we curse around our kids, when we lie and cheat and steal around our kids, when we talk about other people around our kids. When we do things that we know are dishonest, that we teach our kids not to do, but we do them and then we say, do as I say, not as I do around our kids, we influence a whole different generation to do something that we don't even want to do ourselves.

Speaker 1: 8:01

There is a moral to the story. I hope you find one in this because I think it's just so powerful all by itself. But if you could find a moral of this story is that we have influence. We have the ability to transcend and affect generations. Now I talked about the doctor and his daughter, but I didn't talk about the basketball player that much or the baseball player. I want to talk about them real quick, not because we're talking about sports. I want you to get the point. Here's the basketball player and here's the baseball player. The baseball player may have a bad day. Maybe he was going through some personal stuff in his life and when that doctor as a child came to him for the autograph, he probably just didn't even care because he was focused on what he was dealing with and focused on his own problems and his own struggles and he didn't see the opportunity. I'm an honest believer in this and I've seen it in my own life and I believe that the basketball player because he mentioned it in a book that he wrote recently that the small efforts that we take to encourage and inspire other people, no matter how much we don't get out of it later on in life, it always pays us back in full. It always pays us back in full.

Speaker 1: 9:06

If that baseball player had done that, did Dr Wynn have been so affected and so offended and so grieved for decades of his life? Because the basketball player said you know what? I have the time. I care about this child, I care about this family, I care about the fans who watch me play and who love my work on the court. I'm going to make their life. I'm going to make their life. I'm going to make their day better and in doing so it's making my day better too. And because he did that, he impacted generations. He made a small impact that not only helped him emotionally but also helped that family emotionally, also helped all the basketball players' businesses, because they see him as a valuable, real, authentic person and it increased his cachet in the community and he showed customer service on the street, away from his businesses and it increases his business because of the impact that he made in a little small way.

Speaker 1: 10:03

What am I saying to you guys? I hope I'm making sense. I hope I'm not babbling. I hope this makes sense to you guys. Look for the small opportunities to be a blessing to somebody. Look for the small opportunities to bless someone. I see it with little kids every week, all the time. Little kids that recall when I encouraged them months ago, when I gave them a blessing or a gift months ago. They remember it. They remember my smile with them. They remember getting on my knee and listening to what they had to say, hearing their childhood problems and not brushing them off. They were irrelevant. They remember it even to this day.

Speaker 1: 10:38

Take the opportunity to find the small opportunities to be a blessing to somebody, not just your own kids in your own house.

Speaker 1: 10:44

That's easy stuff.

Speaker 1: 10:45

I'm talking about the other people, the people who may just be getting on your nerves.

Speaker 1: 10:57

Take the time to listen, take the time to care. Be compassionate. It's always going to pay you back. Everybody to a man that's listening to this podcast today has the opportunity to be a blessing to somebody. Take advantage of it, do something with it, make it count, be authentic about it. Serve somebody, even if you don't see any immediate rewards. Always, always and take it as truth coming out of my mouth from somebody who's done this it always, always A-L-W-A-Y-S always pays you back. I believe it. Hope you do too. Thanks for listening to this podcast, wherever you are and however you're hearing. They call me Mr U and the Inspiration Station. Thanks for making us part of your week. Please like, share, subscribe on our YouTube channel and our Apple podcast, and wherever you find our work. It helps us put out more great content for you. So thank you so much again for listening and supporting us. We really do appreciate it. I know I do, my family does. We're definitely appreciative of you and we love you guys. Have a great day.