Overcoming Trust Issues

Overcoming Trust(trəst) Issues(ˈiSHo͞o)

By Steve Pavlina

How easy is it for you to trust other people? Do you trust people easily? Or are you often suspicious(səˈspiSHəs) of others’ motives?

Do you trust life enough that you can quit(kwit) your uninspired(ˌəninˈspīrd) job as soon as you recognize it as such, and know that life will bring you something even better? Or do you need to slow things down and control(kənˈtrōl) the process(prəˈses,ˈpräsəs,ˈpräˌses,ˈprō-), such as by trying to save up money doing even more work you dislike? Are you paying the price(prīs) in frustration(frəˈstrāSHən) for your distrust(disˈtrəst) in life?

Do you trust that if you leave your uninspired relationship that life will bring you an even better, more fulfilling relationship experience?

If you leap(lēp) into your path with a heart, do you trust that life will have your back?

Difficult Trust Lessons

In my early 20s when I was getting my computer games business off the ground, I was a pretty trusting guy. I felt lucky to be entering into a deal to publish one of my games with a major(ˈmājər) publisher. My team worked on it for months, and then our publisher unilaterally(ˌyo͞onəˈladərəlē, ˌyo͞onəˈlatrəlē) cancelled the deal on us and tried to sue(so͞o) us for absolutely no reason that made sense(sens). It was basically(ˈbāsik(ə)lē) a scare(ske(ə)r) tactic(ˈtaktik). I was able to convince(kənˈvins) them to drop the lawsuit(ˈlôˌso͞ot), but they killed our project dead, and in the end I was left with a bunch of debt(det) and no income.

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