Fundamental #3: Say YES to Rejection!
Rejection is the #1 reason for ninety-nine percent of all failures in life. You must realize that as you plan to achieve uncommon results in life for you and your family you will face rejection. Remember, it is easier for someone to reject you, point a finger at you and say things like “you will never succeed, you are crazy and stop dreaming", rather than them taking action to change their own lives! As they point one finger at you, remember there are three fingers pointing right back at them.
We have the power to choose to fulfill our dreams, and choosing to accept rejection by dealing with it is the key to the fulfillment of your dream! While you pay the price to reach that dream, your #1 enemy will be rejection. You must expect it, love the challenge and know that you are heading in the right direction.
A major step in paying the price is hitting massive rejection. In that instance, you must decide whether to get fired up or fall down to the enemy! Rejection is emotional. The average person will wear their emotions on their sleeve for most of their life unless they decide to put those emotions aside and use that rejection as a driving force to reach their ultimate goal in life!
You live for your “WHY” – your ultimate dream! You must live by faith and know that rejection is your enemy. You have a victorious spirit to conquer that enemy! Rejection can try to deter you, but those qualities that you possess will ultimately make you successful in achieving your WHY! As you say YES to rejection, you are beginning to win in the game called life.
To me it was like yesterday, I was a 24 year old stuttering kid living in New York, stuck in a rut with no dreams or goals and no money in the bank! What does that mean to you? It means if you are presently in a state of rejection, you must forge forward and, most importantly, upwards towards the fulfillment of your WHY!!
I am always very enthused to address the topic of REJECTION! How you handle rejection is in direct proportion to how you maintain a persistent level of action in order to feel fulfilled and find your WHY in life. As a super-achiever in life (which means you have your WHY in place), you are driven to fulfill your personal goals set for you on a daily basis. In the course of this daily action, you will inevitably encounter rejection and the incredible power it exerts over you!
Just when you are feeling great and your business is beginning to grow, you will experience rejection. Out of nowhere, it will slap you right in the face like an icy, cold wind and your little voice inside begins to doubt whether or not you can really achieve what you initially set out for. YOU MUST LEARN TO LOVE REJECTION! You must become excited when you get rejected while at the same time you continue to forge ahead no matter how much that rejection hurts!
The most successful people are those who have felt the pains of rejection, but because of their DETERMINATION they pressed onward and won the game. As you are building your business, you need to set a goal and continue toward it regardless of the degree of discomfort that rejection may be causing you! Rejection is an extremely negative force; therefore, it is to your benefit to channel this force to produce positive results!
Thomas Edison is famous for the 10,000 ways that a person couldn't create a light bulb due to his numerous attempts to reach his goal - creating a light bulb! As we all know, he eventually succeeded. Rather than seeing his previous attempts as a negative force, he utilized all that he had learned through the many failures to produce the positive result of achieving his goal!
You too will develop incredible character as you continue to build your business, regardless of the rejection that you experience along the way. As a super-achiever, you will use your knowledge of rejection and its power to your advantage. Expect rejection, love rejection, learn from rejection and you will succeed!