“You know what, I’ve been given all the credit I need. I don’t need any more credit for things. Credit? Nah, I’m good from here on out. Everyone else, you take it.”
I’ve never heard anyone say that.
We want the credit. Desperately. And a little more certainly wouldn’t be uncalled for.
We have a strange relationship with credit. At least the entertainment world around me does.
We all want a lot of credit for doing the least amount possible.
The music industry is the worst.
We’re willing to make a phone call for someone if the phone call is easy.
If it might be an awkward phone call, we’re out.
We’re willing to pass along an email address if the mail-search on our phone works quickly.
If the email address someone needs from us isn’t easily found…sorry we just can’t make it happen.
We’re willing to give a little time and energy today, if we can spare it.
If we sense it’s going to bleed into tomorrow, we won’t even sign up to begin with.
We might be willing to try one time, but following up couldn’t be further from our minds.
If it’s easy, we’ll help, and if it works we’d like a lot of credit…for working really hard.
Are we willing to change this?
Instead could we start working harder than expected? Be more generous with our follow through? Be insistent on someone else’s dreams coming true? And give away more credit?
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