Upgrading Your Circle of Influence in 2020

Issue #42 December 10, 2019

My focus today will be on helping you refresh your thinking around who you spend the most time within and out of work and life and how you can level up your overall wealth and well-being in 2020 by pruning and upgrading your circle of influence.

Use these stealth and natural conversational methods below to rapidly build rapport, be memorable, and deduce what motivates the individual on the other side of the table.

Business is done by and between humans. Business is a relationship. Although humans come in a multitude of sizes, shapes, colors, and cultures, at the end of the day, we can all be reduced to an individualized mix of what Tony Robbins has called the six human needs: certainty, uncertainty, significance, love/acceptance, growth, and contribution.

Building a virtuous cycle of business and personal relationships that accelerate your access to better people, bigger ideas, and new strategic resources is a lucrative and fulfilling exercise. Mastering these seven conversational ingre…