ITL198: How to Create a "Wall of Influence" That Inspires You Every Day

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, we’re recording from my office in Orange Beach, Alabama, and talking about the “wall of influence” that sits across from my desk.

I have been around people successful in entertainment, business, and politics, and have seen them hit a point in their career where they turned kind of monstrous.

It’s an odd world to live in where people say, “You’re great. You changed my life.”
If you’re not prepared to deal with that, I see how you could turn into an idiot!
I have an “influence wall” to remind me where I’m from. Whatever it is that I am, these people are the ones who deserve the credit.
Every time I look at that wall, I am reminded of an umbrella of authority.

If you look at people’s lives that have gotten out of control after having a lot of success, it’s because they have no authority in their lives.

While we watch “heroes” in our modern day, everyone thinks they’re great until we find something out that’s leaked to the public.
To our kids, that’s one more notch of disappointment that makes them think, “Oh, well that’s how people really are.”
Everyone on my influence wall is on my board of directors, but not everyone on my board of directors is on the wall.
The board of directors is something that ebbs and flows.

If you have an influence wall, take a picture of it and email it to us at InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com.

Tune in to the full episode to learn about some of the people Andy considers major influences and authority figures in his life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.4	Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.3	Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy.
0:17.6	Andy, we are in a very special place today. Yes, we are.
0:21.2	This is exciting.
0:22.2	Welcome to the inner sanctum.
0:24.5	We are sitting, we're sitting in your office.
0:27.4	This is so, this is different.
0:29.4	First of all, a lot of times we're recording and we're in different states.
0:32.7	Sometimes you're in Nashville and we record up there.
0:35.2	We started doing more up there just when I'm there, because I love doing this just sitting
0:40.1	across from you.
0:40.8	Absolutely.
0:41.5	And we are doing that today.
0:43.0	We're going to record a few episodes today, but we are sitting in your office.
0:47.0	We're actually in the place where you do a lot of different things.
0:51.5	This is where you do all of your creation, you do all of your thinking,
0:56.0	you're communicating, your computer is here, you're doing all of your stuff on a regular basis.
1:01.0	But I've got to tell you, I've never been in an office like this. This is shocking.
1:06.0	Yeah, you're just trying, it's a nice way of saying this is pretty weird in here. Because nobody comes in here.
1:12.4	Right.
1:12.7	I mean, I don't have an office that, you know, I mean, I don't do business deals in my office.
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