Ep 23 - Overcoming Rejection

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Hey, do you want a free motivational ebook called Hack your goals, A step by step guide to achieving Success? Go to mwfmotivation.com and download it for free like hundreds of other people already have. Okay, now I'll get you back to the podcast. Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast, which I am proud to say has been Rated the number one podcast in iTunes. New and noteworthy in six different categories including self help and business and is the podcast designed to help you grow into the best version of yourself? In 10 to 20 minutes, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we'll take a life topic, break it down, discuss it, and leave you with thoughts to impact your life and mind. My name is Rob Dial and the podcast starts now. Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast. This is Rob Dial and if you have not yet subscribed to us and you would like to do so, please do so on iTunes, Stitch or SoundCloud. However you listen to us, I would appreciate it and also I'd appreciate if you do like this episode or if you like other episodes, to share it with a friend. We're trying to change the world one person at a time and give you some tips on how to overcome rejection today. So today's topic is overcoming rejection. And to be successful and to get everything that we want from life, we have to deal and learn to deal with rejection and rejection. And dealing with it is actually counterintuitive to, you know, what's actually in our, our genes as humans. Because if you think about it, thousands of years ago, we as humans, we needed to be around other humans and impacts to survive. We needed to have them for safety, for food, for shelter, for everything you could possibly think of. So it's counterintuitive to go against rejection. But nowadays accepting rejection and being okay with it is the only thing that's holding us back from living the life of our dreams. So a story that I actually love about rejection is of Sarah Blakely. And you might not know the actual name Sarah Blakely. She's a multi billionaire and she started a company called Spanx. And I was actually never even, never even heard of Spanx before and I had to Google it, but it's a women's clothing company. It's like an underwear type or something, I guess, I don't know. But you could probably Google and find out if you wanted to. But she's a multi billionaire from this. And when she was young, her dad actually encouraged her and her family to fail. So every single night at the dinner table he would ask, you know, how did you fail today? And he was not happy unless they failed in some sort of way. His realization back then was that in order to be successful and for them to have successful lives, he needed to teach his kids to be okay with failure and to make sure they realize it's a part of life. And she talks about it and says that this is actually the main reason why Spanx is such a successful company. You know, she would pitch this to other companies, she would pitch it to investors. And she estimates that she got hundreds of no's from investors from companies of people who did not want to invest in her product. Companies that would not accept it. But she just kept going because she knew that failure was just a normal part of life. She was conditioned by her father to just fail as much as she possibly could. So her father made sure that she failed every single day. And because of that fact, she was okay with getting hundreds and hundreds of no's from other companies and investors and now has a multi billion dollar company and is worth billions upon billions of dollars. So here's the interesting thing about rejection though. Rejection, if you actually think about in your mind, it's just really a myth. Rejection really doesn't exist. If you say, for instance, you ask somebody out to dinner at 8 o' clock on Thursday and they say no, well then nothing has actually changed. Your situation has not gotten worse because you were gonna eat dinner at 8 o' clock on Thursday anyways. So nothing has actually gotten worse. You just might be eating it without the person who you asked. So everything has just stayed the same. So you know, if you apply to a college and you get rejected from that college, nothing's changed. Your life is exactly the same, you haven't lost anything. So we need to learn to overcome rejection. Because you never learn. Excuse me, you never lose anything by asking. But you can only stay the same if you don't ask. So if you want to change things and you want your life to become better, you have to learn to ask and be okay with getting rejected. Because if you ask and get rejected, nothing in your life has changed. It's exactly as it was a few minutes before you actually asked.

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One thing that I used to teach my sales team was this phrase we used to always say. Some will, some won't. So what? Who's next? You know, some will buy, some won't buy. So what, who's next? So you can't get caught up in the ones that say no and get down about the people who say no about stuff. Because around the corner, there's somebody out there that's waiting to say yes to whatever your idea, whatever your product is, whatever your business is, whatever your dream is. And life is just a numbers game. And the secret to success is to never give up. Just develop thick skin and keep going. You know, Colonel Sanders, the guy who started KFC, got over 300 rejections before someone actually believed in his idea. And now there's 11,000 KFC stores in 80 different companies. You know what would have happened had he never given up? You know, he wouldn't have that delicious chicken, which I don't eat anymore because it's too fatty and all of that stuff. But I really Wish that I could, but there would be no KFC. You know, if he had over 300 rejections, let's say he stopped it just before the person said yes. Well, then there would have been no KFC at all. You know, the Chicken Soup for the Soul riders, they got 130 rejections on their first book because people thought, you know, companies thought, publishing companies, all of them thought that it had no substance to it, like there's nothing in it. It was just a positive story. And they didn't want to have a positive story. Cause they didn't think that people would want to read a positive story. It was too positive. It wasn't gonna work, is what they said. And Chicken Soup for the Soul went on to sell over 8 million copies in 80 bestselling books that was translated into 39 languages. So in reality, is it that we're too afraid of rejection, or is it a reality that we just need to keep asking until we get the people to say yes? Because just because a publishing company said no about this book does not mean that they're right. Because obviously, if they had 130 rejections, that was 130 people that didn't know what the heck they're talking about. So they're not any better or any smarter than you or I. So we got to learn to be able to overcome rejection. The founders of Google, in 1998, when they were still in college, they tried to merge Google with Yahoo. And Yahoo rejected them because they wanted to. They just said, you know, I don't think your company's gonna be big. Continue on your college project. If it starts to grow, we can talk later on down the road. Now, Google is worth $365 billion. Meanwhile, Yahoo is worth one tenth of that. So once again, that's an entire company that was huge in 1998 that rejected them because they didn't think that Google was going to be successful. So to wrap up, we have to realize that rejection is just part of success. We have to be rejected many times on the road to success. So the only thing that we can do is get used to rejection. We can't let that stop us. So you have to develop, you know, we have to develop persistence, develop really thick skin and be okay with getting rejected and continue to be persistent on the road to success. So the two things that I'm gonna leave you with today, the two leaving pieces, Number one, make it your mission today to go out and get rejected. Get used to it. Get rejected as much as possible. If you want to see something really good. Go ahead and look up 100 days of rejection. Just Google it. There was a guy who had a fear of rejection and went 100 days in a row trying to get rejected for some of the craziest things he could possibly ask. And it's pretty funny too. You have to see some of the stuff. Like he went into Dunkin Donuts and asked them to make him donuts that looked exactly like the Olympic symbol in the logo, thinking that he would get rejected and they actually did it for him. He went to like a humane society and asked to borrow a dog for a day. So it's actually really funny. Look it up. It's called 100 days of rejection. This guy was trying to learn from his rejection and got a TED Talk out of it and now he's just used to rejections. It's an awesome, awesome thing to look up. So that's the first thing is to go out, get rejected today. Look that up as well if you have some time. And number two, make it your mission to make somebody else's day better. I really appreciate everybody listening. If you love us, you know Share it with a friend. Subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher or SoundCloud. I really appreciate it and I hope you all have an amazing day. And so that is it. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. 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