The Power of Influence

Dear Uncommon Leaders, 

I hope your weekend was a time of refreshing and rest.

As you head into the new week.... and a new month!... remember what's most important - the power of your influence. 👏⤴️

Be uncommon this week!

This Week's Question:

Who in your life has influenced you in such a way that the whole trajectory of your life changed?

This Week's Challenge: 

It’s Memorial Day as I’m writing this, and I just finished “The Murph”workout with two great friends.

The Murph is designed to honor and remember those who gave their lives serving our country. Days like today should cause us to pause with gratitude and solemn reflection. Memorial Day is about remembering.

As I reflected today, my mind drifted toward people who have had uncommon influence on my own life.

People who served.

People who sacrificed.

People who led in ways that changed where my life was headed.

People like my mother, who as a single mom worked multiple jobs at times just to put food on the table.

People like my stepfather, who stepped into our lives during difficult years and helped rescue us from a lot of hardship.

People like my 9th-grade English teacher, Roger Flinchum, who cared enough about his students to teach us how to set goals and dream bigger.

And people like my assistant Dee, who does a thousand incredible things behind the scenes, but maybe most importantly, lovingly tells me what I need to hear—even when it’s not what I want to hear.

I owe so much to these people.

Who comes to mind for you?

Your challenge this week:

Take some time to identify someone who has genuinely changed your life—and thank them.

If they’re still here, tell them directly.

If they’re gone, honor them through gratitude and remembrance.

And then… go be that kind of person for someone else.

Let’s spread uncommon influence—the kind that truly changes lives.

Have a great week. Let’s go be Uncommon.

This Week's Quote to Ponder:

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

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Until next week,

LET'S GO BE UNCOMMON!

W. Kevin Harrison

Founder and Executive Coach

Uncommon Influence

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