{"id":5694,"date":"2020-07-22T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:01:53","slug":"take-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/2020\/07\/22\/take-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My friend Liz measured my height and waist last month at a party. It wasn\u2019t just me it was all of us: Meg, Chad, Chuppa, Zack, Daley, we all got measured by this petite 5 ft woman and a measuring tape and charted everyone\u2019s numbers on a chalkboard in her kitchen. For those of you wondering, I\u2019m 6ft 1inch and weigh about 210 lbs which is A.) not where I want my weight to be, believe me, I\u2019m still trying to lose a few more and B) irrelevant to everyone at that party. Nobody at the party wanted to be measured, but Liz\u2019s house is where the get-togethers happen, so late nights at Liz\u2019s house tend to involve impromptu measurements and (shudder) on-the-spot pushup contests.<\/p>

I\u2019m telling this story because recently my partner and I moved into a large space in the hopes of hosting special parties and events monthly. Liz and the regulars (everyone I included above) came over for a small intimate 4th<\/sup> of July night to watch local fireworks but also finally see the new place and already Liz was full of energy. She spent the first 20 minutes putting people to work in my home. I walked into my living space to see her directing my friend Chuppa to move MY couch around away from the TV and towards the big windows in my apartment. Not one for confrontations, I somehow knew I had to stop this.<\/p>

We put up with Liz\u2019s bossiness because we\u2019re generally at her house\u2026but right then and there it dawned on me that I wasn\u2019t at her house. I was at MY house and I felt I needed to take ownership of the situation. Setting down my gin and tonic, I confronted her.<\/p>

\u201cLiz, I think you should put down my couch. I don\u2019t want it there.\u201d I declared. The look Liz gave me was priceless. I\u2019ve never seen her eyes that big. It was a look of shock, because who actually dares talk to Liz that way, but then it was a look of reflection. She ordered Chuppa to put the couch down and the faint realization that she had no ownership of the place or the couch was in her voice and for the first time I had authority over Liz in a situation. I don\u2019t want to ever put Liz in her place, I just want her to have a good time at my parties, and by taking ownership of my place, I was able to relieve her of her anxieties and she can just go back out on the patio and have fun.<\/p>

Ownership in something puts me on a different level. If I\u2019m fired from a deli job in which I have no actual responsibility, the worst they can do is fire me, and I need to look for another Deli job. Much like being a guest at a party. If I accidentally break one of your limited-edition McDonald\u2019s Smurf glasses, I will be crushed, but technically, I\u2019m not losing anything other than my friend\u2019s respect. But if the party is at MY house and it\u2019s MY limited-edition McDonald\u2019s Smurf glass is broken, then I\u2019ve lost a glass and my collection is ruined.<\/p>

Not wanting ownership of a sale or project is just so telling. If it\u2019s a project assigned to me and I don\u2019t want ownership, the effort is halved or even worse. I don\u2019t spend too much time on things I have no ownership of because there\u2019s room for my voice to be heard. I want my fingerprints on every project and sale that comes my way. More exposure and success should in theory, lead to more ownership and freedom, so always strive to find some ownership when investing in one\u2019s self.<\/p>

Investing in something means believing in it and investing in a sale means believing the sale is something people should have. It\u2019s why an ad is extra special if someone with high status is featured next to the product. It says to the buyer, \u201cI take responsibility and ownership of my image, and I will gladly support this product with my image.\u201d Many people\u2019s careers have lived and died at the hand of ownership, because the reward that ownership promises is oftentimes greater than anything we could possibly imagine. Imagine my surprise when I didn\u2019t have to 20 pushups in front of everyone. That\u2019s a reward in itself.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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