here are many people who influence us in every matter of life. As per our perceptions, we decide how big or small its effect is on our life. It doesn’t come only from the top and high-profile people. Even a common person can create a big influence on his thoughts, words, or actions. Not only geniuses, but the vulgarity also can create a huge influence on an individual. During all the phases of life, one must follow those people who have experienced the bitterness of life, who never gave up, who never stayed in their comfort zones, and who have succeeded after making several mistakes for their passion.
There is always confusion while searching for people who can offer the best advice in order to achieve something in life. People run behind such influencers who have not achieved something meaningful in their life. It is also due to the lack of credible people who can guide us and show the right perspective. Why do we need to bother about what XYZ eats in his breakfast or what does he wear for a party? If this impresses an individual, he strictly has to work on acquiring the right perspectives for his life.
People can easily find out who is the genuine influencer or not by looking at their background, profile, and their activities for the sake of excellence or helping the people. If you want to become a great influencer and wish the people to follow your way and also succeed in their life, you need to show them the right approach by following some set of rules for yourself.
1. Publish yourself: this is also an expression “publish or perish”, you need to publish yourself and if you don't, you'll perish. You have to show your skills to the world more often so that they find beauty in you from every angle. If you want to reach out to many people but you are not publishing your knowledge, skills, talents, etc. how do you think you’ll create a bigger impact on people’s life. You can write about certain facts which could inspire the people, you can make videos on certain important and necessary facts that help people acquire the right knowledge, you actively meet people and tell them about your perspectives so that they’ll appreciate your presence in every meeting. Just like this, you need to think of some activities that can take you to the world and make a big difference.
2. Actions must define your words: this is a common mistake by many influencers. What they say sometimes, doesn’t match their actions. And sometimes, what they do, doesn’t suit their words. Like you see in an advertisement on smoking, you’ll see an actor promoting social awareness, but you see them smoking on different occasions. Such people cannot create the right influence on the people and they’ll truly fall into the irrelevance category. Whatever we speak of, we must be able to show the world that we follow the same. And whatever we do, there must not be any difference in our words.
For example:
i. If I’m telling you not to smoke, but I’m doing it.
ii. If I’m encouraging you to help the poor people, but I’m not doing it. In both examples, I’m only proving my irrelevance to the words and actions. People must not follow such fake influencers.
3. Something to offer: before you start publishing your skills, talent and your knowledge or perspectives, you need to have something that must inspire the people and encourage them to pursue the same perspective. There are a few people, only by reading one or a few books, they act like they have acquired the overall knowledge and start preaching their stupidity. you will also find them offering free motivation with their videos or messages on social media. You need to avoid them immediately. Such people have not succeeded in any manner and trying to make the fool out of the people by spreading their half-baked knowledge. You need to develop yourself in the first place, then you’ll be able to create a right and a bigger impact on people’s life. you shouldn’t be like such people who run behind the fame, having very little to offer to the people and leave them in the middle to go astray. A real mentor or a right influencer will always be with his followers, guiding them with the right perspectives until they succeed in their career and life.
4. Stay up-to-date: this allows an individual to decide whether he can preach his knowledge or not. Staying up-to-date is crucial for every influencer, no matter whichever background he hails from. For example: If I’m a medical doctor and aren’t aware of new medicines or new trends in healthcare, I’ll become a bad doctor. If I’m a designer and I want the world to follow me for new trends in the fashion industry, but I don’t bother to keep myself up-to-date with the new trends in the same industry, I’ll become an irrelevant influencer in no time. The same applies to every expert who has got some followers and people who depend on his findings and perspectives.
5. Stay connected: the right influencers keep updating and posting about their perspectives more often. They don’t publish something at quarterly intervals. Their right posts keep inspiring people on a regular basis. You’ll find this majorly happening with those mentors who are staying regularly connected with their followers. They also share their ideas with the people on important topics and learn from them. Some may also complain about not getting enough credibility or publicity for their posts, it is due to their poor connection with their people. A little idea when shared, on a regular basis, will also create a bigger impact.
I pointed out five ways for keeping the right influence active. There are many aspects to doing the same. I strongly recommend that people must follow the right influencers and avoid falling prey to fake people whose actions don’t match their words. In the end, when everybody wants to succeed, so let it be from the right mentors.