Covey's First Wave of Trust

Remember Covey's five waves of trust from July 27, 2009, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing that Changes Everything. (New York: Free Press, 2006). pp. 34-35: self-trust, relationship trust, organizational trust, market trust, and societal trust.

The first wave is self-trust, the ability to trust yourself. This is, for covey the place where we have to start. We have to learn to trust ourselves. "To build trust with others we must first start with ourselves.

Or to be successful as entrepreneurs, we have to trust ourselves. We have to believe in ourselves. We have to have confidence that we are worthy of other people's trust.

This is not to say that bad things won't happen to us. Or that we will mess up or fall down on the job.

Covey says, on p 42:

The First Wave--Self-Trust--is where we learn the foundational principle that enables us to establish and sustain trust at all levels. That principle is credibility, or believability. This is where we ask ourselves, Am I credible? Am I believable? Am I someone people (including myself) can trust?

If you ask yourself this question, and you don't say yes, you have work to do.

Even if you do say yes, you should check it out with your friends or family who will give you a reliable answer. If course if the answer you give is yes, and the answeer others give is yes, but you don't trust them enough to believe them, you have a problem.

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