Get what. I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for this week, and we're going to talk about embracing rejection. This might be one of my favorite motivational moments. I'm all about getting out of your comfort zone. You know, greatness happens on the other side of discomfort and all this kind of stuff. And there's a whole bunch of my favorite quotes. They're all sort of saying the same thing.
You've got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Whether it's physical change, whether it's opening up doors and crediting opportunities in work life, whether it's relationships. It's just the truth in almost every facet of our lives. Now, let's look at rejection. First of all, rejection is uncomfortable, and the older that we get, the more we steer clear from it. We try and stay away from it. Anything that we could potentially get rejected from we don't even try. We don't even go
near it. But by doing this, we're always in our comfort zone. And we know that, yes, if it zones all warm and cozy, but there's no growth. We cannot grow in our comfort zone. So why do we stay in the comfort zone. Well, usually it's fear of rejection or failure. So the best way to actually overcome this
is by embracing rejection. So doing a bit of digging on this subject, I actually came across a guy called Jason Comly who has created the Rejection's Therapy, which is every day for thirty days, you've got to go out and you've got to try and find something to be rejected from, at least once every day for thirty days. So what might that look like? What it might be applying for a new job that you're not qualified for. It might be asking for something extra free with your
coffee when you're ordered in the morning. It might be asking someone out that you've had a crush on frages and you've never had the courage to do that, or just starting up a conversation with a stranger. There's a myriad of different ways where we can get out of our comfort zone. And I promise you it gets easier every single day every time you do something like this. And yes, there's a chance with these occasions that we get rejected, but guess what, there's also a chance that
these things could happen. We could get a yes from these things that if we weren't doing thirty days of wanting to get rejected every single day, we never would have discovered them. There is no way our comfort zone self would have put ourselves anywhere near the situation or a yes would have been a possibility. But you know, you might get thirty out of thirty rejections. I'm going to say that's not possible. Of course, it's possible. You might get five yeses, you might get ten yearses. Who
you might get twenty yeses? Who knows? Who knows? This is your listener task. We're not going to do thirty days. I'm going to give you the shorter, sharper version. You might be so in love with this new you that you do it for longer. We are going to get out of our comfort zone for the next seven days. I'm going to do it with you for the next seven day, and we'll report back. I'm sure we'll have some funny stories the next seven days. You must be rejected.
You must put yourself in a situation in which you can be rejected. You might get a yes, but you might also be rejected at least once a day for the next seven days. Seven days of embracing rejection, seven days of getting out of your comfort zone at least once a day. And it's contagious. I promise you. It gets easier every single day. Every time you do something like this, and you might find that there was not
as many rejections in there as you thought. Yes, you'll be building up a great tolerance, a great resilience to rejection, but you may also discover that there was some life changing yeses.