Influence becomes responsibility the moment people begin copying you.

Once people begin imitating you, your behaviour stops being personal. Habits you thought were private become permissions, and things you do casually get repeated at scale by people who assume you meant them. Influence is not something you accept, it simply arrives.

Ask what is being copied that you never intended. Working late, the tone of your emails, what you let slide. If you would not want it multiplied across a team, that is a reason to change it in yourself first.