Pitching\u00a0– I abhor the thought of it. Thinking about getting up in front of people to pitch an idea makes my stomach turn. It’s not that I’m afraid of talking to or in front of people. It’s really that I can’t stand being critiqued. Sure, I’ll dish it out in a nice but honest way, but I’d rather not receive it myself.<\/p>\n
Some of this goes back to failure and how I still struggle with it<\/a>. I don’t want to be rejected.<\/p>\n Another bit of it is other people’s opinions of me. I want people to see me as a success… my definition of success (goes right along with my fear of failure, huh?). But as Oliver Goldsmith (a mid-1700s Irish poet)\u00a0once said, “Success is getting up once more than falling down.” If I’m honest with myself, I fail all day every day, but God sees me through the eyes of His perfect Son, who took all my failures upon Himself so that I am not marred by them. I am His – that is my identity, not how crummy that pitch went.<\/p>\n It also goes back to trust – not knowing what people really think about my idea, but also fearing that they’ll give me their real opinion … and it’s something I won’t really appreciate. I’m very motivated by what people say to me and I don’t want to be vulnerable enough to allow people to come alongside me and help. Now, if it’s something that I do one-on-one with someone I see as a mentor – someone I trust – and I’m not really putting myself out there, then it’s a little easier for me because I’m not potentially falling on my face in front of a lot of people.<\/p>\n Really, I just need to tap into my “role-self” and begin learning from the “no”-s. Scott Killian of Fanatics<\/a> and the Killian Foundaiton<\/a>\u00a0once told me, “A ‘no’ isn’t a NO<\/strong> – it’s just a ‘not right now.’ Look at the reasons they said ‘no’ and then fix them to turn it into a ‘yes.'” It takes a lot of practice and outside opinions to get an idea off the ground. Don’t be scared like I’ve been to take chances. Put on your “role-self” and make waves. And while you do it, I’ll do it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pitching\u00a0– I abhor the thought of it. Thinking about getting up in front of people to pitch an idea makes my stomach turn. It’s not that I’m afraid of talking to or in front of people. It’s really that I can’t stand being critiqued. Sure, I’ll dish it out in a nice but honest way, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}