January 20, 2009
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Chewing Trust
Tim Roberts
What’s your strategy for developing trust with another human being?
Don’t answer that question too quickly. Take time, chew on it a bit and then consider what you do to demonstrate trust with family, friends, prospects and clients.
Trust comes in many flavors and means different things to different people. Of course, you’ll hear the standard attributes: credibility, reliability, honesty and integrity but do you also consider the role that vulnerability and risk play?
We arrived on the planet with little understanding and immediately began trusting that these big talking things around us would do the right thing and get us through the day to day perils of staying alive. Incredibly dependant, we started trusting from the get go. For most, it was easy to trust, in fact we could count on excellent attention and service. For others, iffy moments kept us not-OK 24/7. Danged if that doesn’t carry forward for the rest of our lives.
Not trusting others, for many, is a hard-wired response. Moreso, it’s a hard-wired feeling. Without being too philosophical, the neuro crowd demonstrates everyday that we’re made of 50 – 70 trillion cells and all of them have a memory. The memory often plays back as an automatic response. And danged if the person sitting across from you can feel it too!
You lack trust, they lack trust. The barriers are now in place and while you think you are a relationship builder extraordinaire, they feel your real stuff. Sabotaged by your subconscious again!
Don’t get rattled by the word “strategy” here. I don’t remotely mean to suggest anything so inauthentic. I do, however, invite you to chew on what trust really means to you, for you and how it affects every relationship in your life.
If you’d like to discover the true power of trust and how it impacts every relationship you have, contact Tim at 317.845.0041 or tim@thetrustpointe.com.
Trustpointe, Inc.
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Indianapolis, IN 46250
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