Trust is powerful.. Accept this fact: YOU are an important person. YOU are somebody. YOU are unique and have talents and abilities only you can use. YOU were created to be a success. TRUST is a key part of you. Not trusting is contradictory to your life's purpose. You believe in yourself and you will count on your skills to give and receive trust. It's not much different than hitting the bullseye. You either do or you don't, you either are or you are not.
1. Make a Trust list of your past experiences and accompishments, your trust successes. I take mine back to my childhood. I listed the events that I remember had tremendous trust attached. Trust in my teachers, trust as part of school play, part time jobs, athletic events. Trust in family and friends. Doing this has helped me build trust in others. Trust is something that is built not in weeks or months. Trust takes years.
2. I like to read stories of successful men and women who have become great role models and how they embraced trust. How they measured trust and gave trust. Such stories inspire us and enable us to visualize doing the same thing. My subconscious is a map of past trusts both good and bad. I always want to error on the side of trusting. Being trusting on the outside helps me be trusting on the inside, enables me to trust others.
3. Offering your trust to others will build the trust others have of you and they will reciprocate.
4. Join groups, clubs or other organizations to build your trust experiences. From others you will learn to stand, offer trust and accept trust. As said, trust is an ongoing building of skills to improve upon. Never stop tuning these skills. In doing your own evaluation, we help others acquire and learn about trust, to offer trust and accept trust.
5. A firm handshake, a warm inbrace, a pleasant smile. You will feel better when you give someone these simple gestures, along with your trust, and they will reciprocate. I know I almost cannot help smiling myself when someone smiles. My trust is improved when they do. Is my trust without boundries? Of course not. But it is a start toward trust for both of us.
6. Don't be afraid to be the first to offer trust. Step up, step out. Help me trust you. In return I will work hard to help you trust me. All I have is my attitude, my reputation. On that I can do business, enjoy friends, and make new relationships. We that have trust are fortunate and can make a contribution.
7. As you learn the definition of trust, as you begin to develop trust and offer trust, you will begin to associate more with positive trusted-trusting people. You will begin to wear off on them and they you. The others are negative and you know how to deal with them, but my guess is they will begin to avoid you.
8. We are speaking here of big and important words. Do you think we should be careful throwing such important words such as trust, good character, positive, enthusiastic around so easily? Maybe we need to think about the distructivness of these important words as well as those that are bad. Some will say these are just words. It is in the actions that one tells who someone is.......trust or otherwise.. Probably true, but the definitions come from the actions and the way we express these definitions. Remember the saying.....Garbage-in-Garbage-out.
9. My trust of you comes from successful failures of mine. I hate to admit, some were my failure. Some were yours. But at the end of the day, my failures...our failures have been the steps to my success. To my learned trust, to my being able to use it and know just how important the word is...
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Trust is way up there on the list. Combine that with some enthusiasm and you really have something!
What a great list of advice for building trust. These are applicable to any business and our personal lives, too. You are very insightful.
Gretchen
Hi, Ken
Nice approach to the 'Trust' challenge. The 9 steps drew me right in. Good job!
Hi Ken,
Your post is being highlighted again!
Great post on trust.
Phil
Great steps Ken. I especially like the last part though : Trust is like this post. I am making a post and trusting this submission to Activerain / Adobe EchoSign Trust Contest will win me a prize. Well, top 10 you are! Congrats! -Kasey
Looks like you trusted right, it got submitted and into the top 11. Nicely done
Excellent post. Good luck in the final voting. Missed this one earlier, glad it is being spotlighted.
Hi Ken,
Good points to embrace for establishing trust. Good luck in the contest.
Lisa
Ken- wonderful post. This has been such a great exercise! Congrats on being a finalist and ensuring there's more trust in the world, not less!!
Thank you all for your kind thoughts and words. I trust that you all enjoyed all the posts. And I hope you will embrace my 9 points of trust.
Ken - WOW - these are all great points regarding building and accepting trust with others. Congratulations on being in the final round on this fun contest!
Thanks Wes... I appreciate your confidence and desire to use some of my 9 points.
Great list! I am going to print and try to do it!
Thanks Shannon.. I trust the list will serve you well... :-)
We were in Rocklin yesterday. We have an RV and decided to hang out at Thunder Valley Casino while I replaced a bad electrical part. Spent the night there in the big parking lot by the Bio plant.
Great job.
Hi Lyn.... Thanks. Sometimes thoughts come easily, and at other times, it is painful. This one just began to flow. I actually had to trim it back it got so wild. It was fun though and when I read it, I hear even more of my thoughts, my actions and I actually go out and try to be a better person, trust more and offer more trust to others. Crazy..
Very good list.
Sharon
Ken, so agree that being the first to offer trust results in good outcomes! Congrats on being a finalist!
Ken:
Nice post which caught the judges eye. I didn't read it the first time around. So glad it was picked as a finalist and I had the opportunity to read it.
Thank you to Frank & Sharon, also to Valerie and Evelyn for catching it the second time around. Appreciate all your good comments and thoughts. It has been fun. Really did not think I did anything special, just put down my thoughts about trust. The hardest, remembering those who I trusted who didn't reciprocate and took advantage... But I have forgiven them all and scratch my head wondering why they acted as they did.
It's interesting to think of Trust and Character in the same sentence. Surely they go hand in hand! Best of luck in the contest!
Ken ~ very true words. Trust is built and earned along the roads and paths we choose throughout our lifetime.
Ken,
Amazing how intricate and yet how simple trust is all at the same time....you've demonstrated that so well in this post. Best of luck in the contest!
Jo
Ken,
fabulous analytical parameters in the trenches of life.... Congrats to being a finalist. Best of luck!
Well presented post. Good luck in the contest
☔ Ken, great list of examples on how and where we find and bring trust into our lives. Good luck and Congrats on making it to the finals in this contest..
Pamela
Ken, so very well written. Congratulations on making the final 10, you deserve it.
Ken ... Awesome post and well eserved! Best of Luck!
Hi Jan, Dawn, Jo-Anne..... The three of you are fantastic and insightful. I like your thoughts better than my own ! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on trust we me....with us.
Peter, Ed. Thank you for taking time to comment. Very much appreciated.
Pam... I enjoyed your thoughts also.. Thanks so much for sharing.
Lisa, Connie.. Thanks!! Lisa, I read your newsletter every time I receive it.