Being a huge Oklahoma City Thunder fan I simply tweeted a picture I had received from Ben Ambuehl to a friend, Kevin Deshazo. The picture is of OKC Thunder player, James Harden. The rest is history.

Influence is leadership and leadership is influence.

The two go hand in hand.

Learning how to expand our influence is what most of us seek and hopefully we’re seeking it for righteous, authentic reasons. Reasons that better those around us and contribute to the collective good.

Proving, Keeping, Hiding. These are all based on fear and fear kills. It maims and limits and steals and causing all sorts of drama and pain.

Identify, understand, choose, practice, share. Attitude change can happen, but only when you are ready to get to the core, deal with reality and decide to do something about it.

True humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s not being outwardly humble, while harboring pride. And it’s not being weak. True humility is service to others, service to a cause greater than your own personal ambition.

Can you imagine a world where the people were unintentional with their lives? A world where you didn’t aspire to grow or learn or dream? Can you imagine living in a place where your time was dictated by television schedules and your dreams were inspired by ads showing a fake world of fantasy?