I am committed to receiving more rejections! I need to step farther outside my comfort zone, and take more chances. It’s hard to do this as a college student. You are busy with life, with school, with work, with dating… But who’s to say i won’t get a better job, a better degree, better grades, even cuter dates, if i go out of my way to take more chances, and in a sense, to get rejected.
It seems as though in early years of life, we are almost trained that rejection is negative, and if we know we will be rejected, we avoid the situation. If we know a college is hard to get into, we may shy away from applying, becasue we don’t want to be rejected. Think though; how many people shy away from applying on the bounds that they may be rejected, and would have been accepted. How many people are scared to start a business because it may fail, when in reality the business would have made them a millionaire.
The truth is, if we don’t put ourselves out there, and shoot for things that we currently see as “out of our league,” we will not achieve extraordinary things.
In fact, as i write this very response, i decided to go out of my comfort zone, and ask a girl that is way “out of my league” for her number. I half-expected to be rejected… But now i have the girls number.
Taking chances helps us to live on a new level and to exceed our own expectations for ourselves.
Set the bar high, and get rejected until you hit it.