Trust

Learn to trust.

How does one learn to trust? It's obviously something we learn as a child, from our parents, our family, our early relationships. When you learn to trust yourself and your own abilities you can make smart decisions, you'll feel confident, self-sufficient, and empowered. Learning to trust not only yourself but others can help you stop doubting and second-guessing the decisions you've made. Such a small thing that has such a lasting effect.

Trust is both and emotional and logical. Emotionally, it is where you expose your vulnerabilities to people, but believing (trusting) they will not take advantage of your openness. Logically, it is where you have assessed the possibility that the person in question will act in a predictable manner. Trust is a really a bit of both. We feel trust, our emotions are associated with it.

It's like you expose your soft underbelly to the world and you have to believe that they aren't going to plunge a dagger into it. You have to trust someone enough to let them see you cry, to let them past your exterior and to let them see you naked - not only emotionally but physically. It's not easy. Some people I know have the ability to blindly trust, maybe it's not even trust, it's more like they just let people in. They have no walls, no concerns, no trust issues. They just live their lives and don't seem to overthink. Did they learn that or do they learn to ignore that little trust voice inside?

You have to trust the people you work with too. You have to trust that they have your back when you aren't there, that they are working with you, not against you and that they aren't going to throw you under the first bus that comes along. It takes time to build that kind of trust and only seconds or one dumb ass decision to break it.

Our decisions shape our world. Do we dare to create our own world or do we choose to live in a world defined and constructed by others? Who knows best what we want and need or what is right for us more than we do?

We have to learn to love and embrace our own power and to make our own decisions. It can't be something you leave up to someone else...even the Universe. It's how we make our presence felt in the world...and we all want to be felt in the world.....right?