Overcoming Trust Issues

How easy is it for you to trust other people? Do you trust people easily? Or are you often suspicious of others’ motives? Do you trust life enough that you can quit your uninspired 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 the process, such as by trying to save up money doing even more work you dislike? Are you paying the price in frustration for your distrust 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 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 publisher. My team worked on it for months, and then our publisher unilaterally cancelled the deal on us and tried to sue us for absolutely no reason that made sense. It was basically a scare tactic. I was able to convince them to drop the lawsuit, but they killed our project dead, and in the end I was left with a bunch of debt and no income. I found out later that they apparently had no intention of publishing our game. They simply wanted to tie us up from working with any other publishers since they had a competing game that would otherwise be coming out around the same t...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tags: Consciousness & Awareness Personal Development Purpose Relationships Spirituality Source Type: blogs