How do I handle fear and rejection?

Fear

• Consider Fear as your ally; it will be with you always as a reminder that you are growing.
• You cannot THINK your way through fear; you must ACT your way through fear.
• Feel the fear and do it anyway.
• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do.
• There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Rejection

• Many of those whom you approach about EcoMates will decline because they are not entrepreneurial or the timing is not right for them to start a new business.
• When they say no, they are rejecting the business, not you.
• About 80% of the people you approach will not be interested for a variety of reasons.
• You want to quickly sort through candidates to find the 20% who are open minded about a new venture.
• It is like sorting through a deck of cards to find the 4 ACES, you quickly reject 48 cards.

A snapshot of the business: no, no, no, no, no, YES, no, no, no, YES, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, YES.