Fear of Rejection & Failure

“If fear of rejection or failure prevents you from trying, you are guaranteeing a NO answer. However, if you try there is the potential for a YES answer.”

Be it in business or personal, when it comes to goals and relationships; if we don’t try we would never know if we would’ve achieved our goal or if we could’ve established the relationship. Many fear failure or fear being rejected by others because they are insecure about their “Self” hence why self-confidence is not established externally but it is derived from within. As discussed throughout Theory of Self-Relativity, self-confidence is not an attitude but it is a skill and just like other skills our self-confidence can be increased as we increase our knowledge and experience.

When we rely on our own Self and as we continuously seek to increase our knowledge of dealing with reality factually; we will then minimize our fears, anxieties and stresses that commonly affect our forward progress in achieving our goals or in establishing our relationships. When we are truly confident, instead of fearing rejection or failure we will take rejection or failure in stride because if the rejection was justified, we will improve the deficiency that lead to our rejection or failure; however, if the rejection or failure was not because of a personal-shortcoming, we would be confident enough to not allow the baseless rejection or failure affect us negatively.