{"id":9914,"date":"2023-02-27T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:46:18","slug":"failure-is-a-stepping-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/failure-is-a-stepping-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure is a Stepping Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In life, you will fail time and again.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that is just how the cookie will crumble.\u00a0 The more you put yourself out there, the more you will fail too.\u00a0 Sadly this fear of failure is why so many are afraid to put themselves out there.\u00a0 The thought of rejection is enough to put someone geared toward a career change.\u00a0 I like to blame parents today for this fear of a failure and how every kid now gets a participation trophy at the end of the season; failure is deemed a terrible thing, but it is not.\u00a0 Failure builds character and resilience.\u00a0 Trial and tribulation builds steadfastness (James 1).\u00a0 Something a lot of people do not know, the 1980 US Men&#8217;s Hockey Team lost to the Soviet Union 10-3 before the Olympics before they would go on their miracle run and win the gold.\u00a0 Failure is not the end but a stepping stone towards success.<\/p>\n<p>Every single entrepreneur had their failures in life.\u00a0 Ray Kroc was a salesman before he stumbled upon the McDonald&#8217;s brothers; and a really bad one at that.\u00a0 Sales pitch after sales pitch was a disaster.\u00a0 Despite being rejected time and again he pushed on until he eventually took McDonald&#8217;s to being the number one fast food joint in the world.\u00a0 Not everybody is going to have their Ray Kroc story where they literally go from the salesman to billionaire, but it takes getting back up to see if maybe you will.<\/p>\n<p>Sales is a tough industry with stiff competition.\u00a0 People are ruthless, and especially today, they are informed.\u00a0 They will call your bluff and tell the next ten people down the line to not do business with you.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s world of sales, you have to be tough and be okay to fail and not take it personally.\u00a0 Rejection is not the end of the world and at the end of the day, keep your head high and remember to keep getting back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In life, you will fail time and again.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that is just how the cookie will crumble.\u00a0 The more you put yourself out there, the more you will fail too.\u00a0 Sadly this fear of failure is why so many are afraid to put themselves out there.\u00a0 The thought of rejection is enough to put someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","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\/3097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9915,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions\/9915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}