Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!

Trust in the Lord forever for the Lord, the Lord himself is the Rock eternal. Isaiah 26:4

Trust is like a piece of paper. Once it’s crumpled, it can’t be perfect again. Author unknown

If I cut you off, chances are you handed me the scissors. William Turner

How do you view trust and how important is it to you? Many believe it is the foundation to any lasting relationship. Patrick Lencioni approaches it from the negative side in a work/Team setting to make a point how destructive the absence is:

“The first dysfunction is an absence of trust among team members. Essentially, this stems from their unwillingness to be vulnerable within the group. Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.”

Building trust is straight forward but can be elusive. If you try to rush it, like “Trust me!” It usually has the opposite effect. It is not something you can demand but something that is earned, for most people, it happens over time.

As Dhar Mann says, “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break and a lifetime to repair.”

It is hard to follow a leader you don’t trust. It is hard to work with someone you don’t trust. It is hard to have any sort of lasting and meaningful relationship with someone you don’t trust. Be conscious and deliberate in how you earn it, how you give it and what it means.

Challenge: Take inventory of your top ten relationships. People you spend the most time with and gain the most value from. Ask yourself if those people are genuinely open about their mistakes and weaknesses and how that factors in to their relationship with you. Now turn the tables. How genuinely open are you with them regarding mistakes and weaknesses? How can you improve that?

Build some more trust today. You can never have too much.

Have a blessed weekend!