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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.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about whoever holds the honey pot is bound to lick their fingers. This quote is about not letting power go to your head and to watch out for other people who have power. Now power is just another word for influence and the greater the power, the great the influence someone has. I love to learn about these things because it allows me to make better decisions on how to navigate my environment.
When I was in the Marines, you would see people with power that would abuse their power. I saw the same thing in family relationships and the private sector. So this is everywhere and doing the right thing is a very hard thing to keep up. This is why we need to be reminded of these lessons daily so we don’t forget about them.
When I was in DC, I would see lobbyists trying to influence representatives with lavish receptions with free food and open bars. I would see these Representatives at these parties and they were probably there to network and raise money for their next campaign. The life of a representative is not glamorous. They have to spend so much time fundraising for the next election that they don’t have much time to focus on other things. They are also human.
So they make go to this reception or sporting event because they feel like they deserve it. They work hard and they don’t get paid that much for the work that they do. This is a very complex issue but it makes sense to me while someone with that much power would lick their fingers from time to time.
You see these in relationships, where one person is dependent on the other person, and that person will just tug along that person until they are not wanted anymore. They have the influence and they can lick their fingers with free dinners and gifts.
This is why I learn so much because I don’t want to be taken advantage of in relationships, my work, and my health. When I was working at a personal trainer, the lead personal trainer would get first dibs on the new members that showed up. And he would pick the prettiest girls or the ones with the best jobs. Then the rest of the trainers would be stuck with the college students and other folks with not a lot of disposable income. The lead trainer had kids that he wanted to help out and wanted a good life for himself, so it’s understandable that he did what he did. Is it fair, that’s another question to ask and everything depends.
There is a lot of gray to this area and is not a black or white issue. So I feel that the best thing we can do is just raise our human, social, and financial capital so that we don’t have to succumb to other people’s power. There will always be an influence on other people, but to make things fairer, we need to build up our skills and wisdom to overcome this influence. Do these as a society, then the world will be a more virtuous place to live.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, who holds the honey pot is bound to lick their fingers. Lots of societies have gone under because the people in power couldn’t stop licking their fingers, upsetting the population. So we need to keep people in check with their power grabs, by raising our human capital, then our awareness. This can then allow us to navigate the situation easier with less hassle. Even is someone who has power, that doesn’t make them a bad person, it just means they have a lot more responsibility. So either you can take over their place and do a better job, or you can learn how to work with that person so that the greatest good is accomplished. This takes work but is necessary to create a world with fewer problems.
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