Credit for you or who? Credit where Credit is due.
Do you give credit to whom it is due or do you take credit even if it is not due you? Secretly the desire for glory can drive some habits that keep us small inside. We often use the phrase…”s/he wants all the “sun” or can’ t share the spotlight.
But how much credit, how much time shall we give those who have earned or achieved something? Have you ever paid attention to yourself and what you do or say when someone is sharing something of theirs? Do you even listen or is it patronizing listening? Does your own unacknowledged desire to have some “sun” make you underhanded and you off handedly change the subject, quickly interrupt, not really listen, or look bored or hijack the moment to give yourself glory for something or pretend you were instrumental in their achievement behind their back? This is not an uncommon experience if we are honest and observe behaviors, yet one we can do something about if we really want to grow and move to a higher consciousness that allows each of us to be our best self.
Acknowledgment and gratitude are the antidotes.
Acknowledgment that these demeaning behaviors are lying layered underneath the facade of being happy for someone’s achievement or success is a step in the right direction. Taking ownership of these behaviors gives them light and gives us credit for being honest. In surfacing these, they will no longer control us from under the facade, and by acknowledging these behaviors exist in us, this allows us to have a choice. This awareness will thwart them from automatically showing up and by being unaware keep us small or show us up as small. Afterwards if we realize it, we feel bad about what we did or did not do. The challenge once brought to awareness is to then identify what triggers this so that you can preempt this behavior.
It is amazing to see how great it feels to truly acknowledge someone and their efforts or achievements. It opens your heart and makes it bigger with generosity.
Gratitude is the second antidote. In gratitude we can truly appreciate someone else’s contribution to the world and give real credit. Anyone who has ever achieved anything in this world knows it takes effort, resolve, discipline, talent, intelligence, desire, and a host of wonderful attributes. Gratitude would allow us to be thrilled to know someone who can teach us to strengthen our own attributes for contributing to this world.
It is really a sign of how big you are inside, when you can give someone full credit for what is due them and just glow in their delight as you give them some of your light. Be a light in the world, yours and others, the more light we give, the higher the consciousness we can achieve…
Give credit where credit is due, and begin by giving credit to yourself for reading this and considering this information as a step in the right direction of contributing to the next evolution that begins with yourself. Credit for you or who? Credit where credit is due.
Maria Hilda Pinon, author of The Willows of Corona, a novel, and Candles in the Dark…poems to grieve, hope and love again.
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