A baby takes its first steps and usually it is with something or someone standing in front of it coaxing them forward one step at a time. Most of us do not remember those early days, but the days since we remember pretty vividly. Trusting to take the right step can be a tricky one.
I remember in my early skating days an instructor told me it would be beneficial to me if I tried a certain technique the way she taught me rather than the way I had learned by watching someone else. I had already gotten into a bad habit which was not helping me in my progress. So along with my instructor I had to "re-learn" the trick from scratch. It took constant practice over and over and over again to break the habit and the move did improve over a long, long period of time.
Often when you watch figure skating the commentator sometimes will comment that "oh he/she doesn't have the best technique" or "he/she recently changed instructors after many years and they had to go back to the drawing board and break down the trick in a better way". That can be a make or break situation sometimes when all the bad habits have to be erased. Easier said then done!
In today's society trusting others and even your gut instinct have battles all the time. Throughout my life it seems my "gut" instinct prevails over most anything. Sometimes I like to also call it my "Scorpion stinger" because most times when I get stung once, most often I don't get stung again in the same way.
Trust played a big part in our first start in our own truck business also. I have always took the cautious route while David sometimes not so much. Our ying and yang complex. The offer he had been approached about didn't seem realistic to me but to him--a great deal. The little small voice kept insisting NO but I gave in with much reservation. The to good too be true situation lasted longer than I expected but eventually it did sour. It was definitely a learning experience for both of us and several years later when we again had the opportunity we went into it with a whole different perspective. Thank goodness twenty years later we have been blessed. We have managed well with only a few bumps in the road. Expansion was never on the list because too much of a good thing can lead to disaster. We have seen it happen with many in business for themselves. Taking on more than you can handle, giving up control to other's can lead you down the wrong path. That little small voice has won out.
Trust me, everything in life will eventually come out fine, or so I am told. Over and over and over again.
