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Rejection; How To Deal With It!

Rejection is a part of life.  Whether or not we like it, it is inevitably going to come our way.  Sometimes, seemingly, during the time we try to avoid it most.  Think about a time you had to face rejection.  It may have been when you got turned down after you asked for a raise at work, asked someone out for a date, requested permission to do something, applied for a job, asked an ex to take you back, requested someone’s friendship on Facebook, or even when you asked a family member or a friend to take a look at your business opportunity.

Rejections come at many different times in our daily lives.  Many fear it, and most hate how it feels to be rejected.   The best way to deal with rejection, however, according to author of The Success Principles (Link To Book Below), Jack Canfield, is to understand that “rejection is a myth!”  It does not exist!

What this means, simply, is that when you are courageous enough to ask for something, when you get rejected, your life does not change.  It stays exactly as it was before.  If you applied to your most preferred college and did not get accepted, guess what, nothing changed about your life.  You had spent all your life without going to that college and you knew how to go about your life, so after the rejection letter, nothing really changed.  Just apply elsewhere!

Don’t be afraid of the rejections and the ‘No’s’ that come your way.  As a mater of fact, anticipate them!  I have learned that with every ‘no’ you get, a ‘yes’ gets that mush closer.  It is simply a numbers game.

So if you have an idea you want to pitch to investors, welcome the ‘nos’ that may come, for they help sort out who you should not be doing business with anyway!  When you pitch your business opportunity to new prospects and they say no, say to yourself, “so what, NEXT!” Let each rejection slip motivate you to move forward, for you are one more person closer to  the YES that you deserve!

 

People Who Got Rejected, And Kept Going:

* Beethoven was once declared hopeless at “composing” by his music teacher.
* Einstein’s parents worried that he was “sub-normal.”
* Elvis Presley was fired by The Grand Old Opry after only one performance. He was told, “You ain’t going nowhere son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.”
* Michael Jordan was kicked off his high school basketball team.
* Stephen King threw his manuscript, Carrie, in the garbage because he was tired of the rejections. In fact he gave up posting his rejection slips on the bulletin board above his computer once they were too thick for a pin.
 * Oprah Winfrey was rejected for the first news anchor position she applied for because she was African-American and overweight.
* John Grisham, best-selling author, was rejected by sixteen agents and a dozen publishing houses before his novel, A Time to Kill, was accepted.
* Fred Astaire, was turned down by four movie studios and had an executive say this about him, “Ears too big, balding, can’t sing—dances a little.”
* Sylvestor Stallone who dreamed of starring in his own screenplay, Rocky, was rejected over and over but was finally offered a substantial amount of money if he agreed NOT to star in it!
 * The Beatles were turned down by executives who said, “We don’t like their sound. Groups with guitars are on the way out.” 
* Marilyn Monroe was turned down by a modeling agency and was told that she’d better learn to do secretarial work or get married because she didn’t have a future in show business.
* The Wright brothers only had five people show up to witness their historic first flight. (Others rejected the invitation.)
 * Clint Eastwood was told that he would never be a movie star because his Adam’s apple was too big.
* Colonel Sanders received over 1,000 rejections of his special chicken recipe before becoming the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.  
* F. Scott Fitzgerald was once told by an editor; “You’d have a decent book if you’d get rid of that Gatsby character.” 

 

2 Responses to Rejection; How To Deal With It!

  1. FASCINATE gr8 book by Sally Hogshead – 7 triggers to Persuasion & Captivation- she’ll be at Velocity our Marketing Thought Leadership event

  2. I seriously learned about a lot of this, but with that said, I still considered it had been practical. Good task!

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