How to build trust

Building trust is essential to all relationships. Taking time and one kind act after another you can develop and grow trust into a long lasting relationship that will benefit you even when you are not around.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Ability to do things without keeping score
• Persistence
• Patience
• Kindness

1. Begin by deciding where you need or want to build trust. Make a list of the persons you want the trust to be obvious with.
2. Armed with your list of names, begin listening and remembering what is important to the persons on your list. It may be family, pets, relatives. Or even details of situations that they are currently facing.
3. Going about your day to day routine perform random acts that speak for your character. The more random acts that you do for individuals the more they will begin to look at you as a caring, trusting person. Be careful too many random acts can throw up a red flag, and you could scare the person away they could leave thinking you are a bit weird
4. Over time check back in on your list and update it adding names and removing names if these persons have moved on. Keep at it, this is a life long commitment.

Tips & Warnings

• If someone tells you something, do not tell others
• If you are trusted with private information, do not share it
• Check in with persons who look like they are having bad days. “Are you okay today? You look kinda down”
• Be patient spread the acts that you perform for others out over time. If you do 8 different things for one person in the time frame of 2 days, believe me they will think something “strange” is up. You will scare them and this breeds distrust.