I had finished a presentation encouraging women to perceive their dreams and when I asked the women what their challenges were one thing was common amongst many. Fear of rejection or the pain from being rejected in trying to convince other people to buy into their dreams. If you are in business rejection is something that we experience as part of the process. If you have sold a product or a service, you have been rejected before. If you have worked with someone in your business, you have an understanding what rejection is. If you have marketed your services or products on social media and there was no like, comment or worse still people exited the group. Whether people explain to you or not their reasons for rejection there is always room for growth.
Bev Joziak states, “Rejection can disappoint you, depress you or even stop you in your tracks. Learn not to take rejection so personally. If you are honest with yourself and believe in your work others will too.”
As I discussed with the women, I challenged them that sometimes what makes people reject us is lack of results. If you have results in what you are pursuing it is easier to convince people to buy into your dream. Rejection can transport you into destiny if you perceive it not as an end but a process of growth. When someone rejects you or your service instead of blaming it on them one need to do an introspection and ask rejection proof question.
Why are they rejecting me?
What are they rejecting: me as a person, my products, or services?
Where can I find help to improve on myself or my products or services?
When can I measure the impact of the rejection, is the rejection temporal or permanent?
How can I improve myself, my products, or my services?
How you perceive rejection determines whether you grow or die from it. In business sometimes we want to hold on to relationships with people who want to just benefit from us and let us down when they have achieved whatever they needed. Their motive is for them not us. When they leave sometimes you look back and are grateful when you get to know them for who they are.
In your business are you holding on to relationships because you cannot handle rejection or because the relationships are value adding. Do you have a strategy to empower your team to survive rejection and continue to build the organization with you. When you have the right attitude and committed to your success you focus on creating value. The same energy or effort you spent worrying about rejection is the same energy you spent celebrating acceptance of your work. Manage rejection. Jeremy Limn states, “ Rejection gives you more power to push you forward.” Choose to face rejection with a growth mentality.