You might be applying for a job, aiming to get into a specific college or program, dating to find the right relationship, selling to earn a new client, or building a product to grow your business. Indeed, you hope to win and achieve your goal. However, there is also the possibility you’ll fail. Why not prepare for rejection?

Instead of being devastated, angry, and hurt, be ready with a different mindset. Reframe the fear of rejection into change, growth, and opportunity. Ask yourself:

What is my next step if I don’t succeed at getting what I want? What might plan B, C, or W be?

What have I learned from this loss?

How can I release a feeling of self-blame?

Where was I successful in the application, interview, and product release?

Where are you proud of yourself for the choice and action steps you took to try?

How can you celebrate taking the risk?

Where could you have done better?

Even with a loss, where are you grateful?

Where can the rejection be for the best?

Where are you still a success and worthy?

We all fear rejection, and the emotional pain of rejection is not easy, but helping yourself deal with it before it might happen, to shift and counter it, is a healthy choice. It makes your comeback easier. Rejection and failure call to your resilience, resourcefulness, courage, wisdom, and strengthening the positive need for self-empathy.

Rejection doesn’t lessen your value. It doesn’t lower the importance of who you are, your skills, abilities, or life experiences.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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