Fail Your Way to Success
"What other people think of you is none of your business.
" ~Wayne Dyer Did you know there are some truly great failures in our history? Babe Ruth, one of the greatest baseball players ever to play the game, struck out 1330 times on his way to hitting 714 home runs.
I've heard Jack Canfield tell the story about how he and Mark Victor Hansen shopped their first "Chicken Soup For the Soul" book to literally hundreds of publishers who turned them down flat before they finally found one person who "got" their idea and took them on as clients.
I'll bet you didn't walk the first time you tried.
Hopefully, whoever taught you to swim didn't toss you in to the deep end the very first day.
That's because every great success comes through a series of failures.
Nothing worth having is going to fall into your lap without a lot of effort and a few failures on your part.
That's just the truth.
In direct sales, you have to learn to get comfy with failure, to embrace it and actually invite it in for tea.
I promise, you'll get more nos than yeses from day one.
If you can't make yourself understand that those nos have nothing to do with you and move on from them, you won't last long in this profession.
A few tips for doing that?
As long as you're working toward your goal, how you look or how long it takes is not important.
What's important is that you keep going, failure after failure, until you succeed.
So, what do you think? Does this make sense to you?
" ~Wayne Dyer Did you know there are some truly great failures in our history? Babe Ruth, one of the greatest baseball players ever to play the game, struck out 1330 times on his way to hitting 714 home runs.
I've heard Jack Canfield tell the story about how he and Mark Victor Hansen shopped their first "Chicken Soup For the Soul" book to literally hundreds of publishers who turned them down flat before they finally found one person who "got" their idea and took them on as clients.
I'll bet you didn't walk the first time you tried.
Hopefully, whoever taught you to swim didn't toss you in to the deep end the very first day.
That's because every great success comes through a series of failures.
Nothing worth having is going to fall into your lap without a lot of effort and a few failures on your part.
That's just the truth.
In direct sales, you have to learn to get comfy with failure, to embrace it and actually invite it in for tea.
I promise, you'll get more nos than yeses from day one.
If you can't make yourself understand that those nos have nothing to do with you and move on from them, you won't last long in this profession.
A few tips for doing that?
- Remember that when someone tells you no, it usually means "Not now.
" Don't give up at the first no you hear. - Follow up is the key to failing your way to success.
I once "struck out" for over nine months with someone who had asked me to follow up with them, leaving a message every month and feeling like an idiot every time I called (but calling anyhow).
In the middle of the ninth month, she called ME back, thanking me for continuing to follow up.
Turns out she had two children starting college and life had been insane for her (Who knew, and not about me!) - Your gremlin (that little voice in your head that tells you lies about the world) will always tell you it's about you or your fault.
Don't ever believe your gremlin.
It's a complete and total liar, all the time, no exceptions.
As long as you're working toward your goal, how you look or how long it takes is not important.
What's important is that you keep going, failure after failure, until you succeed.
So, what do you think? Does this make sense to you?
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