Overcoming Rejection
55mBeginner2021-02-22
Authors

Samantha Bennett
Best-Selling Author and Communications Consultant

Madecraft
Full-Service Learning Content Company
Course details
Rejections force you to grow. Every rejection brings you one step closer to the right opportunity. Award-winning marketer and best-selling author Sam Bennett draws on her insights to help you find the opportunity in rejection, sharing tips on how to overcome your setbacks with grace. Follow Sam’s five-step program to learn how to get more comfortable with failure and reduce your emotional attachment to disappointment. Master the power of perspective, not only to ease the blow of rejection, but to guide you down the path that helps you accomplish your dreams. Reframe rejection as an opportunity for self-improvement, employing surefire methods that help you balance out negative self-talk. Align your next opportunity with your values to change not just where you're going but where you are right now.
Skills covered
Well-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentLimited SeriesProfessional Development
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Hooray, you got rejected
1. R-E-J-E-C-T Find Out What It Means to Me
- 02 - Why rejection hurts so much
- 03 - Disappointment is taking score too soon
- 04 - What flavor of rejection did you get
- 05 - Find solace
- 06 - Unusual strategy - Revisionist history
2. Investigating Reality
- 07 - What is success
- 08 - Investigate - What actually happened
- 09 - Consider the source
- 10 - What are the actual consequences
- 11 - What do you really want
3. Finding the Opportunity
- 12 - Room for improvement - When rejection helps
- 13 - Patterns and old stories
- 14 - Better luck next time
- 15 - Success leaves clues
4. Try, Try Again (or Quit)
- 16 - Fish or cut bait
- 17 - Overcoming negative self-talk
- 18 - Beginner's mind
- 19 - Incremental success
- 20 - 11 Helpful mantras
5. What's Next
- 21 - Your values
- 22 - Make your own luck
- 23 - Go where you're celebrated
- 24 - Be proud of yourself tomorrow
Wrap Up and Resources
- 25 - Wrap up and resources
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