Circle of influence

The "Circle Of Influence" concept. Circle of Control: Things you can fully control. Focus on these most. Circle of Influence: Things you can have an impact on but can't fully control. External Circle: Things you can't control, and therefore shouldn't think about too much.

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over, instead of craving control over what you don’t.” ~Unknown As you can see in this chart, apologizing falls in the "What I Can Control" circle, but "Others Forgiving Me" doesn't. "Past Mistakes" is outside the circle, but "Trying Again" is inside. Hang tight to the things you can control! Don't give up!

In the 1980s, Stephen Covey created the concept of a Circle of Concern and a Circle of Influence. The Circle of Concern contains things we care about but can’t control. The Circle of Influence are the things we care about and can impact. That was further simplified into the Circle of Control - things we

We are faced with struggles, so we try to control the uncontrollable, but this brings even more stress. Better to stay in the zone of what we can control - ourselves

We have control over the inner circle, but we only have influence (not control) over the outer circle.

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