Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that if there is something you want, go
Speaker 1: for it. You may not achieve everything you try for,
Speaker 1: but don't reject yourself by not pursuing what you want.
Speaker 1: So you have probably heard the statistic that women won't
Speaker 1: apply for a job unless they meet all of the qualifications,
Speaker 1: while men will generally apply if they meet sixty percent.
Speaker 1: That is an interesting statistic. But I am here to
Speaker 1: say that whatever your gender, if there is a job
Speaker 1: you want and you have reason to believe that you
Speaker 1: could do well at it, you should go ahead and apply.
Speaker 1: Will you get an interview for the job? Will you
Speaker 1: get the job? I have no idea, but what I
Speaker 1: do know is that if you don't apply, you definitely
Speaker 1: won't get the job. Now, even if you do apply,
Speaker 1: the hiring manager may choose someone besides you, But if
Speaker 1: you don't apply, you are rejecting yourself. You don't need
Speaker 1: to do that on behalf of the decision makers. As
Speaker 1: the saying goes, you miss one hundred percent of the
Speaker 1: shots you don't take. So if you want to make
Speaker 1: a goal you have to shoot. This is true for
Speaker 1: jobs and for education too. If you have always wanted
Speaker 1: to go to a program at a competitive university, you
Speaker 1: can apply. They can reject you, but you don't need
Speaker 1: to do that for them. If you want to take
Speaker 1: a master class with a famous musician who's coming to town,
Speaker 1: why not audition again? They can say no, but if
Speaker 1: there are open auditions, saying no isn't your job. Do
Speaker 1: you want to serve on the board of a non
Speaker 1: profit you care about, tell the executive director or board
Speaker 1: chair of your interest. If you want to spend time
Speaker 1: with friends, don't assume they don't have time to get together.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and extend the invitation. They may say no,
Speaker 1: but you don't need to reject yourself by not inviting
Speaker 1: them for something that you'd like to do together. We
Speaker 1: recently managed to squeeze in a playdate with another busy
Speaker 1: family in the middle of a busy Sunday. The other
Speaker 1: family could have assumed it wouldn't work, but I'm glad
Speaker 1: they reached out because even if it was only forty
Speaker 1: five minutes, it did, in fact fit. The world tells
Speaker 1: us no more often than all of us would probably like,
Speaker 1: but we don't do ourselves any favors by telling ourselves
Speaker 1: no and not seeking out experiences we would like because
Speaker 1: we believe that we couldn't get them anyway. So pursue
Speaker 1: what you want, knowing that you may be rejected, but
Speaker 1: also you may be accepted. You just don't know, and
Speaker 1: you know for sure you won't get the opportunity if
Speaker 1: you preemptively reject yourself. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've
Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a
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