How to Overcome Fear of Failure and Rejection

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here. I am your host. If this is your first time joining us on The Mastermind, welcome. I'm here every day, at least weekdays, giving you your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. So like and subscribe the podcast. Make sure you share this episode if it's something that you feel you get value out of. I don't have any sponsors on this, so I really do appreciate it, and it means the world to me when you do share the episode. So try to push it out to at least someone you know if it's something that helps you. So today I wanna talk to you about a very simple concept, but it's one that holds most people back. Now you may or may not consider yourself a salesperson, but I think most entrepreneurs, high achievers, business owners would agree that sales is a critical part of any type of business or anything in life. And sales slash communication. So I have this book that I've loved for a while. Several events I had Brian Tracy speak for me at, and he signed a bunch of books. In fact, I got a pile of them here. Maybe I'll give a few away online. But he wrote a book called Be a Sales Superstar, 21 Great Ways to Sell More Faster, Easier in Tough Markets. And I can't think of a tougher market than right now. And I also can't think of a better topic than Chapter 2, which is act as if it were impossible to fail. Act as if it were impossible to fail. and Mark Twain said, courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear and that's the concept I wanna talk to you about today. I wanna read you just a couple pages out of this book because I feel there's no better way to really put this topic of fear which is what a lot of people are dealing with right now and obviously in sales but also in life So let me read to you a couple of pages and see what you think Fear uncertainty and doubt are and always have been the greatest enemies of success and happiness. For this reason, top salespeople or anyone for that matter work continuously to confront the fears that hold most people back. The two major fears that stand as the greatest obstacle on your road to success are the fear of failure or loss and the fear of criticism or rejection. These are the major enemies to overcome. And I want to mention right there, I want you to think about this. How much of your life do you fear failure or criticism, rejection, right? Loss or rejection. As it happens, it's not the actual failure or rejection that hurts you or holds you back. It's the fear of failure or rejection that stops from you. It's the fear of these rejections, these criticisms that you might receive. And it's the anticipation or expectation of the failure or rejection that paralyzes you and blocks you from doing what you need to do to achieve your goals. The truth is that everyone is afraid of something and often many things. Everyone you meet in life is afraid of failure and rejection in some way. The difference between a hero and a coward is that the hero is brave just a couple of minutes longer. I want to read that again. The difference between a hero and a coward is that the hero is brave just a couple minutes longer. The average person moves away from and avoids the fear-causing situation, and a brave person forces himself or herself to confront the fear and do what is feared anyway. Glenn Ford, the actor, once said, if you do not do the thing you fear, then the fear controls you. How many of us does that apply to in our life? If you're not doing what you fear, that fear is controlling you Ralph Waldo Emerson said his entire life was changed when he read the words if you would be a great success make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear Doing the things you fear. The fear of failure, the major obstacle that holds you back, it's felt in your solar plexus. An experience is a feeling of, I can't. You think of that. When you fear something, you think, I can't. You can neutralize this feeling by repeating the opposite phrase. I can, I can over and over. Even say to yourself, I can do it, I can do it over and over until you actually believe it. Because whenever you repeat the words, I can do it, your fears go down and your self-confidence goes up. When you repeat the words to yourself, I like myself, I am the best, I can do it. You're boosting your self-esteem and self-image to the point where eventually you will feel unstoppable. You create within yourself the mindset of a high-performance salesperson. Then as Emerson said, do you think you do the thing and you will have the power? Let me say that again. Emerson said, do the thing and you'll have the power. So here's the key point about fear of any kind. Instead of waiting until you feel courageous enough, do the thing that you fear and the courage will come afterwards. That's a principle that most of us don't understand. We're waiting for the confidence. We're waiting for the courage. successful people face their fears and then the courage comes and then the confidence comes. Remember this whole principle of your thoughts lead to feelings lead to your actions and the actions you take create experiences that embed your beliefs. So when you do take action and you experience some sort of success or even confidence for approaching and dealing with your fear, that's when you're going to create new beliefs that, hey, listen, I can do this. I can handle this. And as Aristotle said act as if you already had the quality you desire and you shall have it Act as if you already have the quality that you desire and you have it So I want you to think about this Where in your life are you falling fear? Fear to this idea of failure or rejection or criticism. What is it that's holding you back? Find something in your life that's holding you back. And rather than waiting until you have the courage, push forward expecting the courage to show up. because it really is the title of that chapter that Brian Tracy has. Act as if it were impossible to fail and ironically enough, you're gonna find yourself closer and closer to success. So that's my thought for you today. I hope you have an amazing weekend and if you haven't already, I'd love for you, if you're a business owner, to go over to our new site which is showmetheprofits.com. Showmetheprofits.com. On that site, we've got a free ebook that my business partner Justin wrote which gives you strategies and ideas on how to immediately grow the revenue in your business. And even if you're just a manager or leader in a company, this helps you to identify the levers that will move the needle, the 20% of the activities that will create 80% of the results. And also it's going to help give you some specific, specifically eight strategies that we do list in the book that will help you to grow your revenue, increase your leads, increase your conversions, increase your profit, and increase your pricing. and I think these are things that will help anyone in any type of business that they're in. Anyway, that's my message for today. I hope you take it into your life and face your fears and expect the unexpected and I think you'll be surprised. That's my message for today. My name is George Wright III. This has been The Daily Mastermind. Have a great weekend. Thank you.