As published in the Saipan Tribune

Why I Trust You

I recently recruited a new business associate to oversee several sensitive aspects of my company. I asked for no resume or referrals, but simply acted on a feeling I got upon meeting her at a workshop. Within 48 hours of her signing on, I had shared with her details of my business and personal life that apparently surprised her. She called today, to ask a simple question: "Why do you trust me?" she asked. "I've been with the company less than 48 hours officially, and already I know things about your operations and you personally, that indicate a deep level of trust. So, I ask, why do you trust me?"

The question was a fair one. So, I gave it some thought. These are some of the answers I gave her on the phone, which I'll now share with you.

Why Do I Trust You?
I trust you because with me, trust is a given. It's not something you have to earn, necessarily. It's something that we start off with, and you either keep it or lose it as time goes by. You either confirm the soundness of my decision, or you reveal that I made a mistake.

I trust you because trust is the basis of you meeting the expectations of our agreement and interaction. I trust you, therefore, because I want you to succeed, and my trust is what you need in order for you to do your job.

I trust you with and share the intimacies and secrets of my world because you cannot harm me. As a spiritual being, no one can harm me in any way that really matters. I am not my user id and password. I am not my credit rating. I am not my bank account. I am not the image and impression you may have of me once you know these things. I trust you, therefore, because I am fearless.

I trust you because it's efficient. I trust you because if I am wrong in giving you my trust, there really is nothing that I've lost except a little time. If I am right, however, we hit the ground running and conquer the world starting from day one. Whereas, if I wait for something you do to earn the trust, we may wait and waste days or weeks that might have been spent productively producing results.

I trust you because trust is a function of a vibe that I respond to. If I felt I could not trust you, I would not trust you. You need prove nothing, but simply continue to be who you are.

In other words, I trust you because trust is a function of character, and your character is what it is from the day I meet you. It's not a gift I give you for something you do tomorrow, but a given YOU come with based on who are today.


My trust you'll never earn, my friend
by what you do and say
My trust is like a gift
you'll keep or lose along the way

My trust is automatic
yes, I'll trust you at first sight
I trust you first and what you do
will prove me wrong or right

My trust is what you need
to do your best, so why indeed
would I withhold the very thing
you need most to succeed?

For trust is not a prize you win
from points that you accrue
no trust derives from what's inside
and THAT'S why I trust you!

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Had a very nice coaching session with a new client yesterday and I suggested that she start thinking about her book project not as single book but as the beginnings of an empire. Building an online reputation that results in sales and "effortless income" is a process. When I started my writing career in 1992, it was with a single book that I sold through mail order. When I started my online identity in 1997, I started with a single site (nichemarket.com). When I started doing my life rhymes, it was just as a little boost to my business partners. When Monica Blache, a member of my nichemarket.com mailing list suggest I start a poets niche, it was to provide an outlet for a few poets she knew. 10 Years later, I have over 50 registered domains and about a dozen active sites, the life rhymes grew and continued for 9 years! The poetsniche membership exploded, and we even had a day named after us in Atlanta when poets came from as far away as Canada for our first "meet up!" It's all been a process, but now 10 years later, I can look back and compile a body of work of which I'm very proud--a body of work which continues to offer information, inspiration and ideas!

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Haven't written a Life Rhyme in almost a year, but this one was inspired by my reading of Happy Pocket Full of Money (See previous post for download link)

The World About Me

This world of points and edges
is not always what it seems
It's just manifestation
of your thoughts and of your dreams

This world of loss and laughter
is not hard at all to know
it's merely a reflection
of a you from long ago

This world of lack and luxury
just an image of the past
and thus can be transformed
the players all can be recast

For thoughts create reality
but take their time to build
Today is made from yesterday
for life is thought fulfilled

The world you see about you now
Illusion. Nothing more
it's yours to shape at will
and thus create what lies in store


Excerpt from Happy Pocket Full of Money
"Remember how we saw that you are
at cause over things that happen in your world. Those who have taken time to
study and experience this know experientially that every person causes 100% of
their world. Now, remember that thought takes time to manifest into the physical,
depending on the subject matter. So, what then are you looking at when you use
your eyes to see things? What are your eyes seeing? If you are at cause of all
you see, and thought takes you time to manifest, you are obviously looking at
yourself at various stages of your 'past'. Read that through again. It is all an
illusion. An illusion designed to allow you to look at yourself so that you can
create the next version of yourself, design your growth. What you see with your
eyes is an illusion designed from various stages of your past.

The way to use this world you see with your eyes is to see it as your past
and actively use it deliberately to observe your Self and see what to change and
grow. That is one way to use the illusion, which is a gift brought to you kindly so
that you may know your self.


Present results are the effects of previous thoughts. In other words, when
you look at the world today, you are actually looking at yourself as you were
yesterday. The world at any present moment of now reflects your thoughts and
state of being before the present moment of now. It is all an illusion. Use it as the
illusion that it is and you will live wonderfully and richly."

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I retired from writing new life rhymes last year...but this is a story that had to be told!--

WHEN BLOGGERS MEET Sit back for a spell for there's something to tell ahh, my friend, yes you're in for a treat For I'll tell you a tale to which others will pale when the bloggers on Saipan meet! Yes, they came out in style just to chat for a while some drank coffee and some came to eat Strangers greet you by name (it's an odd type of fame) when the bloggers on Saipan meet! Yes, the Captain was there, then Mike pulled up a chair Bree and Cinta and Gus found a seat Brad and Bev came on through Melissa made her debut when the bloggers on Saipan meet! Then the laptops came out just like we joked about and the bloggers pulled off a rare feat Growing close as a team with eyes fixed on a screen when the bloggers on Saipan meet! Then old bloggers taught new showing just what they should do the camaraderie there couldn't be beat That's the way things will go as this group's sure to grow when the bloggers on Saipan meet! Yes, you should have been there if you missed it, don't fear for the love-fest is bound to repeat Come the next time you hear "A WeLoveSaipan affair!" when the bloggers on Saipan meet! For they'll meet once a moon come tsunami or monsoon final Wednesday when month is complete all in favor say "aye" so for now it's goodbye 'till the bloggers on Saipan re-meet! (c) Feb 2007 Walt F.J. Goodridge p.s. And for those who should ask or who took me to task There were two whom I seemed to delete Among the proud and the few were Angelo and Walt, too when the bloggers on Saipan did meet! :-)

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Every Friday between 1997 and 2006, I wrote and composed a new motivational creation I called Life Rhymes. I sent them in a weekly email ezine called "Walt's Friday Inspirations." They got to be quite popular and many copies of all 468 life rhymes are still floating around the internet on various websites. You can check out the full archives at LifeRhymes.com ()opens in new window). Today I thought I'd share one with you that's always motivating for people looking to make changes in their lives that others may feel are rash, impulsive, scary, but simply challenge the norms of thinking. It's one of my favorites...
ahem...

The Great Sheep Uprising

One day a young sheep woke
and faced a world he'd never known
He raced to tell the herd
and share the vision he'd been shown

The fence is down, the dog is dead
the shepherd's gone away!
We sheep will soon taste freedom
with no one to block our way!

What pastures shall we roam to?
Oh, what fields shall we explore?
Our day of choice has now drawn nigh
what greatness is in store?

We'll spread across the country!
Yes, expand our power base!
We'll maximize our numbers!
and reclaim our rightful place!

Imagine how we'll prosper
Yes, just think how far and wide
Our children spared enslavement
our own fate shall we decide

The sheep began to follow
with excitement this bold youth
But then an old sheep blocked their path
and spoke his only truth:

Contain your mad excitement
and now listen well, dear child
For sheep we are and sheep we'll be
and sheep do not run wild

Our master loved and led us
and this field is all we know
What lies beyond no one can say
this path may lead to woe

And so it was, that fateful day
the sheep fell back in line
No fence, no dog, no shepherd
but with limits on their minds

And so it is with sheep
And sadly so with us ourselves
That even blessed with freedom
all good sheep still herd themselves

COMMENTARY:

Here is an excerpt from Tales from the Time Loop by David Icke (rhymes with hike) which inspired today's Life Rhyme:

[BEGIN EXCERPT] When a few people wish to control and direct a mass of humanity, there are certain structures that have to be in place. These are the same whether you are seeking to manipulate an individual, family tribe town country, continent or planet. First you have to impose the 'norms' what are considered right and wrong, possible or impossible, sane or insane, good and bad. Most of the people will follow these norms without question because of the baa-baa herd mentality that has prevailed within the collective human mind for at least thousands of years. Second, you have to make life very unpleasant for those few who challenge your imposed 'norms.' The 'norms' or 'consensus reality' are essential to our control...

The most effective way to do this in order to ensure compliance with these norms is to make it difficult to be different. You make those who voice a different view, version of 'truth' and lifestyle, stand out like black sheep in the human herd. You have already conditioned the herd to accept your norms as its reality and, through arrogance and ignorance, they ridicule or condemn those with a different spin on life. This pressurizes the black sheep to conform and serves as a warning to those others in the herd who are also thinking of breaking away or challenging the prevailing reality. ...This fear of being different and voicing a view that challenges the 'norms' is overwhelmingly the fear of what other people will think of us. In reality, the fear of what the sheep around us will say and do if we seek to leave the herd and question its conditioned assumptions. This mentality means that the masses are policing themselves and keeping each other in line. The sheep become the sheepdog for the rest of the herd.

Once you have the herd mentally policing itself, there is a third phase in the entrapment of human consciousness. You create factions within the herd and set them to war with each other. This is done by creating different belief systems (which are not different at all) and bringing them into conflict. These belief systems are known as religions, political parties, economic theories, and isms of endless variety.

You bring these beliefs into conflict to ensure the divide and rule you so desperately need for control by the few. While the masses are busy fighting each other, and seeking to impose their beliefs and views on each other, they don't see...the...strings attached to all of them. [END OF EXCERPT]

Dare to be different. Dare to dream big dreams. Don't allow the mass consensus to restrain your thoughts and actions. Break free from the herd. Let the young sheep's vision of The Great Sheep Uprising live in you!



Walt's Life Rhyme #442
The Great Sheep Uprising
(c)Walt F.J. Goodridge
The Passion Prophet
''I share what I know,
so that others may grow!''

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