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Life Security 101 - Who Has the Keys to the Kingdom?

Your Risk and Trust Model Decides Who Has KTTK or Keys to The Kingdom

KTTK is an honor and privilege bestowed usually onto the

• Most dedicated and loyalty, most trusted
• Most responsible and self disciplined
• Most level headed and careful

The combination of these factors cause different degrees of trust and security to be given to people, and risk is low when the trust factor based on these qualities is high.

What should be part of your trust factor?

Obviously, the following

• Proven character, not just assumed character trust
• No vices or control from vices in one’s life
• An insider not an outsider

Notice How Monarchies Did This

They kept it in the family. Keeping it in the family was a trust-based model of heirs and successors that almost guaranteed security and minimized risk. It was a model based on blood, which is thinker than water.

This is why your model needs to eliminate the following:

• Unknown people
• Unknown friends of known people (contacts and associates)
• Unproven people

Top 3 Reasons People Abuse Trust Relationships and Compromise the Keys to the Kingdom

• Lusts of the eyes - Money related needs/wants/desires
• Lusts of the flesh - Power related needs/wants/desires
• Pride of life - Ego related needs/wants/desires

Why this is useful for deciding on who we extend trust to?

Before you extend your trust to anyone, especially your full trust, equivalent to giving them keys to the kingdom, ask yourself:

• How long have you known this person
• How well do you know this person
• How well do you know who they may or may not be influenced or controlled by
• Do you have complete and accurate information and can you trust your knowledge
• What don’t you possibly know
• Are you willing to risk the keys ever to this person or is there any doubt not to?
• Are they potentially or proven susceptible to any of the 3 areas of risk described area

Regardless of how well intentioned or good anyone seems, you must decide smartly if they must be excluded from getting one or many keys of the kingdoms, or as the Lord of the Rings would call it, a ring of power. Can they be trusted or are they susceptible and weak to withstand the things that could get them to compromise the keys.

Extending trust…in the form of credit, responsibility or charge…and then how much based on their risk…is a basic concept and is what your credit score, for instance, is used for when a company looks at financing and lending money. Companies go bankrupt when they extend levels of risk-based trust beyond the levels they should, and a financial crisis ensues as we have seen throughout history even to this day.

Where to apply this trust risk thinking in life:

Easy. This can and should be applied to important things such as

• Who has your password
• Who borrows your car or borrows anything from you
• Who has your financial trust and money or control of your accounts
• Who has your legal trust, authority, power of attorney
• Who knows your thoughts and secrets
• Who watches your children
• Who watches over your home
• Who keeps your files and records
• Who has access to your information that you may not know about?
• Who safeguards your information, to include what programs and those behind them (those who write and manage them)

Risk - Trust and Keys To The Kingdom

What you base the trust of these individuals on…which will be a topic of an upcoming post, so stay tuned. I hope I got you thinking a bit here.

My bottom line for you - when in doubt, never ever risk the total control or keys to the kingdom:

1. First never extend that level of trust if you don’t have to and if you do or have to
2. It better be the best decision you ever made and based on acceptable levels or risk and proven guarantees and expectations of trust.

Wisdom and Common Sense is only a click away!

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