Does "no" faze you?

This message is worth reading several times - maybe weekly.

Our Confession: Does No Phase [sic] Us?
by Andrea Waltz & Richard Fenton

People frequently ask us, "Do the NO's phase you anymore?"

The truth is, nope. They really don't. After 15+ years of helping other people reprogram the way they think about failure and rejection, telling people to get off the 'emotional roller coaster' and not to take things personally... we reprogrammed our minds along the way.

Keep in mind, when we first wrote Go for No!, we didn't do it because we were fearless: we wrote it because we desperately needed the message as much as anyone. But these days no's really don't phase us whatsoever. It's one of the reasons why we continue to have a passion for the message - there is a freedom that you can have with your feelings around 'no.'

Having said that here's the other truth: Do we get upset with our progress, have down days, want to stay in bed and pout, feeling like all the hard work isn't paying off as qucikly as we want? Absolutely! Do we fail? Absolutely - pretty often actually. And we still get plenty of NO's.

Now we're working on a project that when we announce it, will seem to some people like we've completely lost our minds. But, we believe in our message - we believe in failing our way to success. And that requires doing stuff often times that other people are going to think is crazy!

As Steve Jobs said, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Credit: http://archive.aweber.com/goforno/KlKIj/h/_Your_Monthly_Dose_of_NOtivation.htm

Enthusiastically,
Gary Burke