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Rejection Therapy
If you get nervous when you think that someone is about to turn you down, whether in sales or in your other relationships, there’s a game you can play to teach yourself to get over it. Called Rejection Therapy, it has only one rule:
You must be rejected by another person every single day.
Basically it works like this: every single day, you need to step outside of your comfort zone and ask for something that you wouldn’t normally. Note that the rule doesn’t say that you need to try to be rejected. You must ask for something outside of your comfort zone and be rejected by another human being to be successful. No other outcome meets the requirement of Rejection Therapy. If you put yourself in a situation where you are likely to be rejected, but you aren’t doesn’t count. You obviously didn’t ask for enough.
Does this sound like something that could get your over your fear of rejection? If so, there’s also a set of 36 cards for entrepreneurs with ideas to challenge your fear of failure that you might be interested in.
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Cindy Hawkins on January 5th, 2011 12:58 pm
Here’s a rejection story I hope those of you who get “shot down” can relate to: Right after 9/11, at the tender age of 53, I decided to view those tragic days as a wake up call to change my life: I wanted to teach. So I reapplied to New York University, where I had been a student with very good grades, back in the early 1980′s. After weeks of being danced around by their Admissions Office I got a form letter – saying they were denying my application ‘due to my previous grades”. Since my grade transcript was over 20 years old and they’d asked for nothing in addition, I knew in my heart I was being excluded because of my age. I decided not to get mad, but to get even. And after some golden advice (“First rate brains demand a first rate education!”) from a savvy retired professor neighbor, I wound up a year later at Columbia University, majoring in English and Comparative Literature. I won awards, scholarships year after year and left, with a GPA of 3.7. And all because I was ‘rejected’ by New York University! To anyone who has ever been left at the altar/shut out of the game/stood up at the prom/denied admission or entry for any reason at all – trust me, if you can roll with it and hang in, you just might find yourself (as I did) in a far better position than you were in, when you got slammed in the first place. Learn from the situation that blocked or impeded you. Make rejection your teacher but don’t ever let it stop your forward motion. Here’s to the rejects! Long may they wave!!
Daisy Briggs on January 5th, 2011 2:20 pm
As someone in my early 50′s, who has been forced to make a life change …. I’m inspired!
Thanks Cindy!
Neel Patil on January 8th, 2011 5:47 am
My wife has finished Masters in Teaching. She is going for Nursing because she says to teach is 24/7 job and not lucrative. She is in her early 40′s, she often says three years education at this age is too much, will it ever be over. Your story is going to encourage her and inspire her. Thank you very much for sharing.
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