We’re around people we love and care about all day, and part of our relational interaction is being influenced by them, and also influencing our friends for their good.

I can try to make that sound like I have this figured out, but alas, I’m guilty of often wanting to tell people what to do, rather than influence.

In Everybody Always, Bob Goff says, instead of telling people “what they want” (my words, what to do) tell them “who they are.”

“We’ll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.”