Entrepreneurship Guarantees One Thing: REJECTION

Every industry that produces success also demands that you hear no repeatedly before you ever earn a meaningful yes. Rejection is not optional. It’s required.

One of the most powerful mindset shifts I’ve ever heard comes from David Meltzer and his philosophy around the word no.

He says:

What if I told you that you were only 25.0 no’s away from your billion-dollar company?

How excited would you be to get your first no?

Your tenth no?

Your twentieth?

You’d be shouting from the rooftops every time someone said no.

You’d be keeping score.

You’d be energized.

But most of us don’t treat rejection like progress because we don’t know when our big yes is coming.

Here’s the truth:

We never do.

And that’s where the mental exercise changes everything.

What if we celebrated no’s the same way we celebrate yeses?

At the end of the day, every no gets you closer to your goal.

Every no sharpens you.

Every no builds momentum.

Every no means you’re playing the game instead of sitting on the sidelines.

Perspective is everything.

Progress doesn’t always sound like applause.

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