Here’s what she found.
Boundaries
First up, trust starts with having clear and honestboundaries, according to Brown.
“I trust you if you are clear about your boundaries and you hold them.
And you’re clear about my boundaries, and you respect them,” she explains.
“There is no trust without boundaries.”
Reliability
The next element of trust is reliability.
“You do what you say you’re going to do over and over and over again.
Accountability
Ais foraccountability.
“Here’s where welose trust with people,” she says.
“So the vault is not just about the fact that you hold my confidences.
It’s that, in our relationship, I see that you acknowledge confidentiality.”
And vice versa, they can expect the same thing from you.
Generosity
And last but not least, we haveGforgenerosity.
Everybody is going to make mistakes, including the people you trust.
When someone does make a mistake, however, trustand namely generositycomes into play.
The bottom line.
So whether self-trust ortrusting othersis something you struggle with, consider these seven factors when approaching those conversations.
