How To Deal (And Heal) With Rejection

It is an interesting time in our world today. Things are moving faster than ever, and people are more connected than ever in ways they never have been or could have been before from such great distances, which is serving to highlight all the ways we are DISCONNECTED from eachother and from ourselves, and have been for so very long.

This is ultimately a good thing to be sure, but like all things that surface and have been hidden, it comes with a lot of ugly gnarly stuff we’d rather not see or deal with. And one of those gnarly things is an issue that comes up for many modern self-made entrepreneurs on the regular, and that is: REJECTION.

When we were kids, the threat of rejection by your peers was a bit more sporadic. Meaning it would come up on the kickball field, or in the girls bathroom, or the basketball court or 6th period science. But now, with our social media immersed culture you are literally subjected to it 24/7 as long as you choose to engage there, which if you are an entrepreneur, you pretty much guaranteed have to.

Which means there’s no place to run or to hide from this threat of rejection and this secret fear so many of us carry that we simply DO NOT BELONG.

When you are first stepping up to be more visible in your business, which is an absolute non-negotiable must for any successful…