Who Is Influencing You? And Why?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Do you find that you give others too much influence over your mood and emotions? Do you find yourself caught in a cycle of judging all your choices based on what others think about that decision?
Today, Fr. Mike reflects on the role of positive and negative influences in our lives and how to discern if we are giving others too much power over our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | I was reflecting the other day about influencers, right? |
| 0:02.4 | We have social media influencers on this thing called YouTube. |
| 0:06.1 | We might have heard about it on Instagram or TikTok or wherever social media influencers |
| 0:10.7 | spend all their time. |
| 0:20.5 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is the Essential Presents. |
| 0:22.6 | And we have influencers when it comes to celebrities. |
| 0:25.6 | We have influencers when it comes to sports figures. |
| 0:28.9 | Remember Charles Barkley saying, you know, something like, you know, |
| 0:31.2 | I'm not your role model, I shouldn't be your role model. |
| 0:33.2 | At the same time, you know, they have an influence, which is another way to say, |
| 0:37.9 | all of us are influenced. |
| 0:39.7 | Like, meaning that there is a, there is, let's back up. |
| 0:44.6 | Shall we? |
| 0:45.6 | You might have noticed in your life that there are some people who have more influence |
| 0:49.6 | over your mood, have more influence over your beliefs, have more influence over your day |
| 0:55.4 | than others do. |
| 0:56.9 | And some of those people have more influence over your mood, over your beliefs and over |
| 1:01.8 | your day than they ought to have. |
| 1:04.1 | Some people have earned that, right? |
| 1:05.1 | Some people have earned a certain degree of influence over our mood, over our beliefs, |
| 1:08.6 | over our day. |
| 1:09.6 | I mean, those people who have proved themselves to be trustworthy, those people have proved |
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