Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

This morning, I want to tell you a short little story that packs a valuable lesson.

Once about a time, there was a small town.

There lived a man by himself who couldn't see.

He was blind, yet he carried a lighted lamp with him wherever he went out at night.

One night, as he was coming home after having dinner out in the town, he came across a group of

young travelers. They saw that he was blind, yet carried a lighted lamp. They started

passing comments on him and making

fun of him. One of them finally asked the blind man, hey man, you're blind and can't see anything.

Why do you carry the lamp then? The blind man replied, yes, unfortunately, I am blind. I can't see

anything. But the lighted lamp I am carrying is for people like you who can see me.

You may not see the blind man coming and end up pushing me.

That is why I carry a lighted lamp.

The group of travelers felt pretty ashamed and apologized for their behavior.

You see, the blind man could see.

He was looking from their point of view, though, not his own.

Most of us walk around blind, not to our path, but to the path of others.

All we can see is the way we see understand and interpret the world around us.

But if we are to be an influential leader, one who can move,

persuade, and motivate others to grow, become better, and do great work, be it at the office,

at home, at school, at church, or in the neighborhood, we have to learn to see the world from

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