WEBVTT - MOTIVATIONAL MOMENT: Unlock your potential by embracing rejection 🔓

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<v Speaker 1>Get what. I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational

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<v Speaker 1>moment for this week, and we're going to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>embracing rejection. This might be one of my favorite motivational moments.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm all about getting out of your comfort zone. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>greatness happens on the other side of discomfort and all

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<v Speaker 1>this kind of stuff. And there's a whole bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite quotes. They're all sort of saying the same thing.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Whether it's physical change,

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<v Speaker 1>whether it's opening up doors and crediting opportunities in work life,

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<v Speaker 1>whether it's relationships. It's just the truth in almost every

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<v Speaker 1>facet of our lives. Now, let's look at rejection. First

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<v Speaker 1>of all, rejection is uncomfortable, and the older that we get,

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<v Speaker 1>the more we steer clear from it. We try and

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<v Speaker 1>stay away from it. Anything that we could potentially get

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<v Speaker 1>rejected from we don't even try. We don't even go

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<v Speaker 1>near it. But by doing this, we're always in our

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<v Speaker 1>comfort zone. And we know that, yes, if it zones

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<v Speaker 1>all warm and cozy, but there's no growth. We cannot

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<v Speaker 1>grow in our comfort zone. So why do we stay

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<v Speaker 1>in the comfort zone. Well, usually it's fear of rejection

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<v Speaker 1>or failure. So the best way to actually overcome this

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<v Speaker 1>is by embracing rejection. So doing a bit of digging

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<v Speaker 1>on this subject, I actually came across a guy called

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<v Speaker 1>Jason Comly who has created the Rejection's Therapy, which is

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<v Speaker 1>every day for thirty days, you've got to go out

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<v Speaker 1>and you've got to try and find something to be

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<v Speaker 1>rejected from, at least once every day for thirty days.

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<v Speaker 1>So what might that look like? What it might be

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<v Speaker 1>applying for a new job that you're not qualified for.

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<v Speaker 1>It might be asking for something extra free with your

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<v Speaker 1>coffee when you're ordered in the morning. It might be

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<v Speaker 1>asking someone out that you've had a crush on frages

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<v Speaker 1>and you've never had the courage to do that, or

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<v Speaker 1>just starting up a conversation with a stranger. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>myriad of different ways where we can get out of

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<v Speaker 1>our comfort zone. And I promise you it gets easier

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<v Speaker 1>every single day every time you do something like this.

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<v Speaker 1>And yes, there's a chance with these occasions that we

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<v Speaker 1>get rejected, but guess what, there's also a chance that

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<v Speaker 1>these things could happen. We could get a yes from

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<v Speaker 1>these things that if we weren't doing thirty days of

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<v Speaker 1>wanting to get rejected every single day, we never would

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<v Speaker 1>have discovered them. There is no way our comfort zone

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<v Speaker 1>self would have put ourselves anywhere near the situation or

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<v Speaker 1>a yes would have been a possibility. But you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you might get thirty out of thirty rejections. I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to say that's not possible. Of course, it's possible. You

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<v Speaker 1>might get five yeses, you might get ten yearses. Who

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<v Speaker 1>you might get twenty yeses? Who knows? Who knows? This

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<v Speaker 1>is your listener task. We're not going to do thirty days.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to give you the shorter, sharper version. You

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<v Speaker 1>might be so in love with this new you that

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<v Speaker 1>you do it for longer. We are going to get

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<v Speaker 1>out of our comfort zone for the next seven days.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to do it with you for the next

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<v Speaker 1>seven day, and we'll report back. I'm sure we'll have

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<v Speaker 1>some funny stories the next seven days. You must be rejected.

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<v Speaker 1>You must put yourself in a situation in which you

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<v Speaker 1>can be rejected. You might get a yes, but you

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<v Speaker 1>might also be rejected at least once a day for

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<v Speaker 1>the next seven days. Seven days of embracing rejection, seven

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<v Speaker 1>days of getting out of your comfort zone at least

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<v Speaker 1>once a day. And it's contagious. I promise you. It

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<v Speaker 1>gets easier every single day. Every time you do something

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<v Speaker 1>like this, and you might find that there was not

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<v Speaker 1>as many rejections in there as you thought. Yes, you'll

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<v Speaker 1>be building up a great tolerance, a great resilience to rejection,

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<v Speaker 1>but you may also discover that there was some life

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<v Speaker 1>changing yeses.