Here are a few ideas on how to reduce the influence you may have on people. If you no longer want to have influence with people on issues – do the following:

  • Be indifferent to peoples needs and desires
  • Be disagreeable when confronted on issues
  • Hoard information and don’t share anything with anyone
  • Be two faced and tell one person one thing and another one something totally different
  • Compete with others in all areas
  • Be opinion-less or too opinionated
  • Try and win at any cost – all the time
  • Be egotistical and self centered
  • Give in to everyone else
  • Have no discipline
  • Be a know-it-all
  • Fail to listen

We all have done some of these at some point. Hopefully we have discovered avoiding these things can help when we are trying to provide input to others.