I've been thinking a lot lately how I can try and positively influence other people, because I don't think I have been doing that to the fullest extent that I could be doing it and I'm not really sure, but I think that I might have a nose for knowing what people, maybe not all, need or want or what makes them smile or whatever. So that's been my goal or what I want to think about working on. This made me think about calling my Dad because I know he loves to hear from me and I don't really call my parents much so I wanted to do that. I actually just now got off the phone with him and we talked for a whole hour. We both are the type of people who don't like to hang up and so we say we have to go do something and then the next thing you know we've started a whole new conversation and so it lasts forever, but it makes us laugh. Anyway I don't know why it's been so hard for me to work towards being affectionate toward my family, but it has. When I look back at how much I've grown in that area it makes me very glad that I can finally give something more back to my parents.

Anyway something else I was thinking about was just how important time is; how it's a currency that we spend and we use it to show people how much we value them. Jesus spent all of his time with other people blessing them with wisdom and whatnot. So this is something else I want to work on and it supplements my first thought since it's a great way of influencing people, hopefully positively :)

One other thing in helping to do this is to have an increasingly better ability to be positive which is what I want to strive toward.