{"id":51903,"date":"2021-10-09T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=51903"},"modified":"2021-10-21T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:41:10","slug":"self-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/self-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"To Cultivate Self-Trust, Take Note of Small Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is self-trust? How do you build trust in yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-trust is the belief in your ability to face and overcome difficult situations without fixating on perfection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-trust-yourself\/\">Trusting yourself<\/a> requires the recollection of past moments where you proved yourself capable of tackling challenging obstacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/building-self-trust\/\">how to build self-trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Cultivate Self-Trust<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the base of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-is-trust-earned\/\">building trust<\/a> with others is your trust in yourself\u2014you can\u2019t give to others what you don\u2019t have. It\u2019s important to continually assess and work on building trust in yourself, because it\u2019s not static. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-trust often wavers following failures or mistakes, when it\u2019s natural to call your capabilities into question. In these hard moments, you can maintain your trust in yourself\u00a0 by reflecting on the seven trustworthy behaviors and identifying moments where you acted in a trustworthy manner. For example, do you usually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/accepting-responsibility\/\">take responsibility<\/a> for your mistakes and make them right? Are you great at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/when-to-say-no\/\">setting boundaries<\/a>? Recognizing the ways that you regularly demonstrate trustworthiness goes a long way toward proving to yourself that you\u2019re capable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s possible, in this reflection, that you\u2019ll discover that there are trustworthy behaviors you\u2019re falling short on. 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