Rejection to me has always been a made-up word. When you were a little kid and you came out of your mom’s birth canal, you had the skin-to-skin contact for the very first time. Your mom and dad served you for the first few years until you were able to do something for yourself, anything.

Rejection never really even came up in your life until you went to kindergarten, and kids excluded you from playing with them.  You went home and your parents sat down and rationalized to you what that meant. They just don’t want to play with you, little boy. They’re rejecting you. Rejection is a made-up word.  It is. It’s made-up, because we want to give a meaning to something.

We want to give a meaning to something that to me doesn’t mean anything. If you approach a woman and she doesn’t like you, it doesn’t mean anything about you, it doesn’t mean you’re not a great person, it doesn’t mean you’re a fantastic person, it just means that she’s looking for something else. Work, family, businesses, opportunities, everything is about putting yourself out there.

I’ve talked about this so many times. Do you think whenever Payton Manning throws a pass that’s incomplete, he worries what the fans think?

Does he feel rejected when the media asks about a horrific game, does he feel like his world is going to come to an end?

Life is just a numbers game, no matter what you do.  I had a person who worked for me until recently, named Laurence. I decided to hire somebody else in his place.  He didn’t take it personally; he actually understood.  He then wrote me a very compassionate e-mail and told me that if I change my mind, he’d be willing to take on another role in my company.

I read the e-mail a few times and I realized that this was a man. This was a man who didn’t look at his ‘rejection’, he understood that as a business owner I needed to go in a different direction. A direction that would enable my business to grow. In his e-mail, he stated how he can still be a valuable member of my team, help my company in other ways. I thought about it for a few weeks, reformulated some ideas and ended up hiring him back.

Now he could have been all about ego.  He could’ve taken that as a rejection. He could’ve looked at the whole thing and said “fuck you David Wygant”, and never wanted to do anything with me again. The fact is he took it like a man, he didn’t take it personally. He didn’t think his work sucked, he just realized I had to do something different.  Then he found a way to get back in and work for me again.  That’s what it’s all about.  Life is just a numbers game.  In today’s video I go into this much deeper, and give you some great techniques for tuning out the noise so “rejection” becomes nothing but a crack on the sidewalk of life!

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