In this episode, we discuss how it’s important to give credit to those people in your life if you want to have major success or keep the talent pool in your life.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
At the end of today’s podcast episode, I’m going to give you a prompt question to reflect on in your journal. The idea is to take one to five minutes to reflect on today’s lesson and write a minimum of one paragraph on how you can apply the lesson in your life. You can use an actual journal, a word document like on Google Drive, or your note-taking app like Evernote. The idea is that you’re actually thinking about how to process the information to help you improve your life.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about there is no limit on what you can do or go if you don’t mind who gets the credit. Right now I’m reading a book about the Portland Trailblazers during the Jail Blazer era which was basically from 1995 to 2005, and my god, what mess of a team. They were very talented but lacked the chemistry to take the team to the NBA Finals. I also just watched the Last Dance Documentary and egos is what caused that team to end it at six championships as well.
Studying these two events from history along with other things, I have to make sure my ego is in check. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to be confident in my abilities but I can’t be delusional about the situation I’m in as well. If I messed up, I’m going to say I messed up and do my best not to be a hypocrite and mess up again. People will get jealous and as people, we need to know how to diffuse the situation by addressing it or cutting that person from our lives.
But if you want to make it beyond your limits as a person, then you’re going to need other people to help you out. It’s like the African proverb “If you want to go fast, go alone if you want to go far, go as a team.” People want to feel appreciated for the work that they do. And if people feel underappreciated, then they are going to want to leave or sabotage the situation. Sometimes people are delusional themselves in terms of their ability and this is why it’s important to have a clear idea of where you stand. But if you’re the boss, then it’s your job to lead these people in the right direction.
And if you can lead them the correct way, then you can accomplish a lot of amazing things. Also if you’re working for someone else and you make them look good, then you can move far in life as well. It just depends on what situation in and what you ultimately want to accomplish in life. I remember being in the Marines and was a sergeant at the time and I had no interest in being a leader. I was busy working on my job which required a lot of work and I didn’t want to add more to my plate. Plus I was going to night school and was busy with that. But I felt underappreciated, and I just wanted to do enough where I was getting the job done and I could focus on my own goals.
I got to this point because when I first got to my unit, I worked extremely hard on fixing everything that was wrong. I remember spending 16 hours at my desk fixing things that weren’t done correctly for the past ten years it felt like and I was able to accomplish things that people said couldn’t be done. I even went to a different department to fix that one once that person was leaving and I got us a passing score on our inspection. The way I saw it, is I could very hard but the system would probably come down after I left. So I decided, okay, I’ll just focus on what I can do. Maybe it was good that I didn’t get the credit because success didn’t go to my head, but we were undermanned as an office and was told by senior officials that we needed to learn how to do more with less. So we did and the general feeling on the base was overworked and underappreciated.
I really think successful organizations start at the top. They set the tone and the example. In the Last Dance Documentary, the general manager, Jerry Krause, was crucial to Bull’s success by bringing in the right coach and players into a system. Bringing in Dennis Rodman was a big gamble for the bulls that worked out. For Portland, bringing players with credible backgrounds didn’t work out. I didn’t realize so many blazers had issues with the law. Like with a lot of things, it requires balance and know when to do something and not to do something.
If you give a lot of credit to other people and you work hard with them, then you can make it very far. It’s when you demand something that isn’t truly yours is when you get in trouble. You could be the best person on your team, but if your personality is toxic, it’s going to bring down the whole office. You can be the best in the past but that is not enough for people to work hard either if they see you taking it easy. I guess if you’re fine with your current situation and don’t want to go any further, then I guess that is when people start to take credit back. It depends on the person though. But if you want to make it far in life, know when to give credit and also make people feel appreciated and give them direction on what needs to happen. Do this and you can make it far.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, there is no limit on what you can do or go if you don’t mind who gets the credit. Now as always, I didn’t come up with this quote, it’s by father Strickland. To get to this point in life, I learned a lot from other people and will give them the credit they deserve when I can. My job is just to spread their wisdom to other people so that we can create a better world. It’s also important to implement these lessons in our life if we want to see growth. I know I will have to keep my ego in check and always strive to do the greatest good for society and I can do this if I give credit to others and continue to grow myself.
So in your journal, ask yourself, are you giving enough credit to people in your life? I heard on a podcast that we should show gratitude to others on a daily basis by letting them know how they helped you out. If you want an amazing relationship, then make sure you take some time to give some credit to your partner as well. So are you give them enough credit? This could also be applied to people at work and friends you have. You can also give credit to authors that helped you out and then they can end up helping you out as well. Just take a look at your life and see what you need to do to make it a great one and giving credit to others is part of the recipe.
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