30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

To reach your goals in life, you will
have to learn how to
handle rejection.
It’s a part of life and to
overcome it, you have to become aware that—same as failure—it’s
only a concept in your mind! The most successful people are not
much different from you. 
They are just better at handling
rejection.
Now that’s something, isn’t it? On your way to your goals,
you will probably have to face rejection many times. Just don’t give
up. And above all, 
don’t take rejection personally.
Think about it. If
you ask someone out and he or she doesn’t want to go out with you,
actually nothing has changed. He or she was not going out with you
before and she is not going out with you now. Your situation is the
same. 
Rejection is not the problem; it’s the inner
dialogue you
start after being rejected that is the problem:
“I knew I can’t do it.
I know I’m not good enough. Father was right. I will never achieve
anything in life”. The important thing is to go on! The most successful
salesmen’s goal is to hear 100 “No’s” a day, because they know that
if they hear 100 “No’s”, there will also be some “Yes’s”. 
It’s a
numbers game!
The most successful “Don Juans” of my friends are

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the ones who dealt with the “No’s” the best. They knew that if they
talk to 25 girls a night, eventually there will be someone who will
have a drink with them. Others gave up after hearing a couple of
“No’s”. Just be prepared to get rejected many times on your way to
success. The secret is to not give up! When somebody tells you “No,
thanks” you think 
“NEXT”.
Did you know that Sylvester Stallone’s
script for the movie “Rocky” was rejected over 70 times? Jack
Canfield’s and Mark Victor Hansen’s “Chicken Soup for the Soul”
was rejected a 130 times and that Canfield was actually laughed at
when he said that he wanted to sell 1 million books. His editor told
him he‘d be lucky to sell 20,000. Well, the first book “Chicken Soup
for the Soul” sold 8 million copies, the whole series about 500
million! Even J.K. Rowlings’ “Harry Potter” was rejected 12 times!