Sometimes you just can't know how what you do can affect others, but I thought I'd share this on my website to spread the word.

It may be a kind word said to another person, whether it's a stranger or someone you know, that "pays it forward" to others you never expected to affect, or perhaps it's some other simple gesture.

So, I just received a call from Dr. Victor Sternberg, a top periodontist in Briarcliff Manor here in Westchester, New York.

Dr. Sternberg has sent many of his patients to me for everything from smoking cessation to anxiety and other issues.

When he recently saw one of his patients who had come to me for smoking cessation almost a year and a half ago (and shortly after, his partner came to me as well), the patient told him that not only had he and his partner quit smoking, but his father-in-law had quit too — even though his father-in-law had never actually come to me!

He was motivated to quit on his own after seeing the improvement in his daughter and his partner.

His father-in-law was inspired by them after they stopped smoking following our session.

By the way, I do smoking cessation in a single session.

So whether it's an act of kindness, hypnosis, or simply something you do that inspires someone else, put it out there and see what happens...