Speaker 1: Get what. I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational
Speaker 1: moment for this week, and we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: embracing rejection. This might be one of my favorite motivational moments.
Speaker 1: I'm all about getting out of your comfort zone. You know,
Speaker 1: greatness happens on the other side of discomfort and all
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. And there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: my favorite quotes. They're all sort of saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: You've got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Whether it's physical change,
Speaker 1: whether it's opening up doors and crediting opportunities in work life,
Speaker 1: whether it's relationships. It's just the truth in almost every
Speaker 1: facet of our lives. Now, let's look at rejection. First
Speaker 1: of all, rejection is uncomfortable, and the older that we get,
Speaker 1: the more we steer clear from it. We try and
Speaker 1: stay away from it. Anything that we could potentially get
Speaker 1: rejected from we don't even try. We don't even go
Speaker 1: near it. But by doing this, we're always in our
Speaker 1: comfort zone. And we know that, yes, if it zones
Speaker 1: all warm and cozy, but there's no growth. We cannot
Speaker 1: grow in our comfort zone. So why do we stay
Speaker 1: in the comfort zone. Well, usually it's fear of rejection
Speaker 1: or failure. So the best way to actually overcome this
Speaker 1: is by embracing rejection. So doing a bit of digging
Speaker 1: on this subject, I actually came across a guy called
Speaker 1: Jason Comly who has created the Rejection's Therapy, which is
Speaker 1: every day for thirty days, you've got to go out
Speaker 1: and you've got to try and find something to be
Speaker 1: rejected from, at least once every day for thirty days.
Speaker 1: So what might that look like? What it might be
Speaker 1: applying for a new job that you're not qualified for.
Speaker 1: It might be asking for something extra free with your
Speaker 1: coffee when you're ordered in the morning. It might be
Speaker 1: asking someone out that you've had a crush on frages
Speaker 1: and you've never had the courage to do that, or
Speaker 1: just starting up a conversation with a stranger. There's a
Speaker 1: myriad of different ways where we can get out of
Speaker 1: our comfort zone. And I promise you it gets easier
Speaker 1: every single day every time you do something like this.
Speaker 1: And yes, there's a chance with these occasions that we
Speaker 1: get rejected, but guess what, there's also a chance that
Speaker 1: these things could happen. We could get a yes from
Speaker 1: these things that if we weren't doing thirty days of
Speaker 1: wanting to get rejected every single day, we never would
Speaker 1: have discovered them. There is no way our comfort zone
Speaker 1: self would have put ourselves anywhere near the situation or
Speaker 1: a yes would have been a possibility. But you know,
Speaker 1: you might get thirty out of thirty rejections. I'm going
Speaker 1: to say that's not possible. Of course, it's possible. You
Speaker 1: might get five yeses, you might get ten yearses. Who
Speaker 1: you might get twenty yeses? Who knows? Who knows? This
Speaker 1: is your listener task. We're not going to do thirty days.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the shorter, sharper version. You
Speaker 1: might be so in love with this new you that
Speaker 1: you do it for longer. We are going to get
Speaker 1: out of our comfort zone for the next seven days.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it with you for the next
Speaker 1: seven day, and we'll report back. I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 1: some funny stories the next seven days. You must be rejected.
Speaker 1: You must put yourself in a situation in which you
Speaker 1: can be rejected. You might get a yes, but you
Speaker 1: might also be rejected at least once a day for
Speaker 1: the next seven days. Seven days of embracing rejection, seven
Speaker 1: days of getting out of your comfort zone at least
Speaker 1: once a day. And it's contagious. I promise you. It
Speaker 1: gets easier every single day. Every time you do something
Speaker 1: like this, and you might find that there was not
Speaker 1: as many rejections in there as you thought. Yes, you'll
Speaker 1: be building up a great tolerance, a great resilience to rejection,
Speaker 1: but you may also discover that there was some life
Speaker 1: changing yeses.