Reject the Rejection

If you are you are going to be successful, you are going to need to learn how to deal with rejection.

Rejection is a natural part of life.

You get rejected from your friends, at school, when you're dating, when applying for jobs, asking for a raise, making sales calls, trying to get a business going, and the list goes on.

In sales, there is a general rule that you have to contact a prospect 7 times before you get to a "yes".

Your life doesn't get worse when you get rejected, it stays the same. So why worry?

If you ask for a raise and you don't get it, you still have your original salary.
If you ask a girl out of a date and she says no, you are no worse off than before.

SWSWSWSW

Some Will, Some Won't So What - Someone's Waiting.

Some people are going to say yes, and some are going to say no. So what?! There is someone out there waiting for you and your ideas. It is simply a numbers game. You have to keep asking until you get to a yes.

Commit to 100 "No's"

Instead looking for that "yes", how about you aim for 100 "No's"?

You might have heard about Colonel Sanders, who was rejected 1009 times before someone accepted his recipe and business proposal? He later went on to have over 18,000 restaurants around the world.

However I've yet to meet anyone personally who has had to receive that many "No's" before getting to Yes.

Whether its committing to 100 cups of coffee to find the right partner, or making 100 sales presentations, everyone I know has got to "YES" before hitting 100 "No's".

Commitment. Persistence.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Learn anything in 10 or 20 hours

Learn anything in 10 or 20 hours

I want to show you how to teach yourself any skill extremely quickly.

We get better at we repeatedly do. For example, if you want to learn to write, the best way is to start writing (just as I did with this blog!).

'They' say, if you want to be an expert in anything, there's a rule that you need 10,000 hours doing that thing. 10,000 hours equates to years of your life to master a skill. Not very cool is it?

That's rather daunting too. And it's not really necessary unless you want to be at the level of Andy Murray or Roger Federer. Well, what if I told you there was a 1,000 hour rule, a 100 hour rule, and even a 10 hour rule? (And a 20 hour rule according to Josh Kaufman).

If you practice something for 1,000 hours straight, you will most likely be in the top percentage in the world. You won’t be a Novak Djokovic, but you will be extremely better than the average person at whatever you do.

Most people don’t have the patience to stick at something for this long. In fact, the majority of people don’t have the patience to stick with anything for too long. Most people don't finish reading a book, or completing a course, there is an awful lot of 'shelf help' out there. So here’s where you get a leg up… by doing what the majority is not willing to do, so that you can have what others can't.

If you practice something for 100 hours straight, you will most likely be “good” at whatever you are doing. Our brains quickly adapt.

If you practice something for 10 hours straight. You will most likely be “OK” at whatever you are doing.

Our brains make the first gains in the first 10 to 100 hours of practicing a new skill. After that progress is much slower.

So put in the first 10 or 20 hours into a new skill (less than a day!) to impress yourself, your friends and colleagues, with whatever new skill you want to develop.

Put ten hours into that new skill you want to learn. You will be surprised how fast you can get past that initial “newbie” phase.

What is the one main skill that you want to learn and master in order to advance yourself and increase your value?

Put in 1 hour right now. Everything is hard in the beginning. Get past the beginning.

This will take you...

To your success,
Trevor Long

Off the Court

The Australian Open Tennis Championships are dominating the media and conversations this Australia Day.

Just like any major sporting event, we see the best of the best of the best of the best congregate to do battle.

With the exception of one player, all of the players in to the top 8 Men's singles are in the top 10 ranked players in the world.

The cream floats to the top.



We look at what they do on the court and are impressed with their skills and determination.

But what about what they are doing off the court? How did they get to enter such competitions in the first place?

Well, the majority of them started very young, they played, they persisted and continued playing.

They traveled away from home over 30 weeks a year, and spent another 15 or so in off season training. They shared rooms with other players, they ate junk because that was all they could afford, yet they had a dream, goals, and they persisted.

And even when they've 'made it', they are still training about 4 hours a day, even when they have a grueling match. They've got strength training, endurance training, and that's on top of tennis training.

There are no overnight successes. There is no success without hard work and commitment.

What are you doing 'off the court'?

To your success,
Trevor Long