Progress is Good

You can’t make other people do or say something that they do not want to do or say. It is hard to get that message across to a child, but I am quite confident that my older one fully grasps the idea. He slips, from time to time, and tries in vain to control his little brother. However, overall, he gets that it’s about influence, not control. I tell him over and over again, you cannot control other people’s behaviors; the best you can hope for is to influence them.

Influence.

I seek only to influence inspiration in others so that they might be free to innovate.

That’s me, right there in a nutshell.

I am, of course, unfathomably profound and clever and talented…and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But, right now, I only seek to influence. If I can do that, then I’m making progress.

Progress is good.