Today is Michelle’s birthday. (Yes, every year I get the double whammy of Valentine’s Day and Birthday on the same day. Better get those birthday dinner reservations WAY in advance…)
Last night I wrote a birthday card and somewhere in the lines I told her “I’ve got your back.”
This morning, in my email feeds I saw Seth Godin’s daily blog. Today’s title is I’ve Got Your Back. It’s a pretty good definition of what it means to have someone’s back. Linked above and credited to Seth Godin, here are his words:
This is a complicated promise. It’s about commitment and connection and most of all, time.
If we’re saying that we’ll do what’s in our short-term interest and convenient, then there’s really no reason to say anything at all, since that’s what we usually do anyway.
Instead, we’re promising to shift our time horizon. To show up when we don’t feel like it, especially then. To invest focus and time and resources when there may be other more compelling short-term options.
Commitment is a reward in itself. It gives us boundaries and structure, and also creates meaning. Commitment only counts when it costs us something, and that cost usually involves shifting time.
Because we said we would.
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