Jerry Banfield

Hear how I work through the fear of rejection by focusing on the joy of my offer being accepted. Today I am making another proposal that I am really excited about which might get rejected or might be approved. No matter how many times I lose the game of asking and receiving, I am motivated to keep trying today by seeing how much fun it is to ask for something I really want and to get it. With my mind being programmed to avoid pain and seek pleasure, the fear of rejection is often sneaky in that my brain devises clever games to avoid situations where I might get told NO without me even being consciously aware it is doing it. For example, with jobs for years I only would apply to jobs in the criminal justice field because that is where I got my bachelor’s degree. I figured my odds of getting rejected were less at those jobs instead of focusing on how much I might actually enjoy doing a job. In serving clients, this has led me to make offers to clients at prices where they were unlikely to make a rejection