People who know, like and trust us (buy from us)

We’ve heard it before: People who know, like and trust us buy from us. As business owners and entrepreneurs, creating the opportunity of “relationship riches” serves to endear our customers with trust, confidence, and connection before and after the sale.

As “The Liking Authority” elements of social media that intersect with real world liking actions fascinate me. But even more important is the underlying trust that comes with the action of liking. You may not even know a person or company very well or have developed enough connection to truly like them … yet… but when the trust factor is initiated you can begin to build your relationship. Books like the Speed of Trust and Smart Trust focus on trust in business.

TRUST…5 letters…one syllable…a huge part of each of our lives both in business and personal relationships.  This monosyllabic word takes on various forms within our daily realm and also within our dictionaries. 

Noun: trust can be defined as “firm reliance in the honesty, dependability, strength, or character of someone or something.”  Example: Success with one can build trust and create confidence needed for progress on the others.

Verb: trust can mean “to have or place confidence in; rely” Example: Partners need to be able to trust each other absolutely.

Additional syllable to it with a suffix and the root word of trust now becomes an adjective (i.e. trustworthy) used to describe an individual or other being.  Example: She is trustworthy.

Further, additional syllables added in the form of word endings can now allow the root word “trust” to take on the form of an adverb describing the actions we take as individuals.  Example: They are in a trustfully honest relationship.

Looking at it from this perspective, this 5 letter word now becomes much more complex which better reflects the varying ways in which we illustrate to others (and others to us) our own abilities and capabilities to trust or to be trusted.

Donna Jacques Temm began the process of being aware of the workings of trust within her own life as well as in the lives of those around her; be it close friends and family or complete strangers on the street of whom she’d happen to catch of glimpse or hear a snippet of telling clues uttered around the role trust played in their lives. Donna is one of the featured authors in the Älska Book series, Adventures in Manifesting. With time, she began to realize that this concept was one that played a major role in people’s lives and how they allowed prior experiences with “trust” to determine their present choices and decisions.  What she also noticed was the gamut of negative emotions around such experiences; anger, disappointment, sadness, fear and on the opposite side of the spectrum, the positive emotions of joy, relief, pride, and comfort.

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When Donna read Ernest Hemingway’s words, “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them,” her recognition of the statement’s truth left her with a weary motivation to try to trust and then hope for the best. 

As Donna read Stephen King’s quote, “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool,” her mind swiftly brought back the memories of feeling inadequate when I had been too trusting of others (at times to my own detriment).

There are no guarantees and certainly no “fool-proof” ways of knowing a definite outcome about situations in which we’d much rather make well-informed decisions.  As Donna read Anton Chekhov’s quote, “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible,” and I’m reminded of a time when I was so overwhelmed by my wounded-ness that I was unable to make any decisions for fear of being led astray. Therefore, she trusted no one, including herself, and remained stuck.

She found it difficult to move forward until she began to invest time and energy into getting to know her true self, inside and out, and began to think much like the meaning implied in the words of Golda Meir, “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

Donna found relying solely on herself to make decisions became a difficult and lonely task. Gisele Bundcheq’s quote, “The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become,” made her yearned for support and in time she learned to take the advice of others to a place of inner reflection. This helped her discern the best way to proceed for her highest and best interest as well as for those individuals that her decisions would directly impact. With time and awareness, experiences quickly showed her those people who were worthy of trust and those who were not worthy of her trust.

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