Monday’s webinar with Andrea Waltz, the author for “Go for No!”, was not my first time hearing her message. I attended a conference a few years ago where she was a guest speaker.
From then to now, I was uneasy with hearing “no” regarding the business I was in at the time and even the one I am a part of now. I have also heard spiritual messages regarding getting through the “no’s” so you can get to the “yes”.
I have dealt with rejections on my journey towards a career. Somehow with building a network marketing business, hearing no and/or getting dismissed hits differently. In order to build anything, you have to work through rejections before you rejoice.
I am also hesitant to build something successful since I have seen people get their lives torn apart because someone wanted what they built. I even had my own situation where I went from making money, which covered expenses, to making nothing with one encounter.
One thing I have to keep in mind is whatever God blesses me with is mine to have. If I lose it, whether it was by my own doing or not, the blessing will come again when the time is right and I am ready for it.
Treat yourself like a kid learning to ride a bike. You don’t scold a kid for falling. You encourage them. We have to give ourselves that same encouragement in our sales process. – Andrea Waltz
I have to believe in myself that I can build a business on a solid foundation. If something has worked for me I know it can work for other people. I just have to keep going to find the people who agree that the business can work for them too. In essence, I have to go through the “no” to get to the “yes.”
I love what Shirley said below regarding your beautiful post. Relating “no” to “negative thinking”… and “Believing” that positive and abundance is there for us. Here is what I am believing for you! You are deserving and your success is good for you and everyone around you and it is in no way what old teaching suggests that success is a “zero sum game” where your success takes away from another… This journey that you (and me:)) are on is one that I see as shifting our perspectives about soooo much. What I see by what you wrote is that you are in fact becoming more of the observer, allowing yourself to see what a “no” is… just part of the journey toward success in sales, but it is not a part you have to dwell in mentally. Thanks for allowing me to reflect along with you!
You can and you shall!
All the right tools have found their way into your life!
By using exactly what she says in her book, it’s taking what once was negative and making it a positive. Thus it becomes easier!
Love your blog! Thank you for sharing!
I love your clarity about this, Jennifer. Thank you for sharing. “No” is another way of saying negative thinking, right? Becoming the observer to make sure–at all times as much as possible–we BELIEVE the positives that abundance is there for us as it is for other successful people–and LET GO of the negatives and the no’s. 🙂
Exactly, Jennifer! I am with you, we are exactly where God meant for us to be. Keep getting those “nos” and we will eventually get the yeses!