Transcript:
Hi there my name is Jeff Arthur with The Values Conversation, here talking about keeping a friend’s confidence. As a coach, and I’ve been doing this for years and I started out as a personal coach and now I’m more in executive roles, but it doesn’t matter whether in business or just sitting, you know, talking about personal stuff. I’m amazed at how many people are afraid to trust because they’ve been burned by so many people in their life, or somebody really important in their life that betrayed a confidence.
I want to talk to you a bit today about it and remind you that it’s okay to find that person and trust them. In fact, we almost have to have it. We’ve been created in a way where we need that person or two or three key people that know who we are, warts and all, failures and all, mistakes and all, and love us, accept us, like us anyway. There’s a big difference between love and like. They not only love us but they like us, they still want to go have ice cream with us, they still want to get a beer with us, they still want to go to the game with us, they still want to watch Sopranos with us, they still want to whatever that is.
The person that you can connect with, and here’s the thing folks. If you are that trusted confidante in somebody else’s life, that is one of the most important responsibilities you’ll ever have in your life, bar none, regardless of where you work, regardless of what the responsibilities are, what you get paid. If you have somebody’s trust, where they believe in you and they want to talk to you about who they really are, that is a key thing in your life. It’s okay to find those people to trust.
My name is Jeff Arthur with The Values Conversation. You can find out more about us on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheValuesConversation.