🟩 From stuck to unstoppable (with a Sharpie and a goal)
Oct 10, 2025 6:45 pm
Hi ,
A while ago, I shared an idea with a friend who was feeling stuck around business development.
He had the skills.
He had the offer.
But he wasn’t reaching out.
Like many of us, he was wrestling with one big invisible blocker:
the fear of rejection.
So I asked him:
What if I told you that in order to get to your goal, you have to go through 100 ‘no’s?
Because we know that we will eventually get to yeses if we keep asking and are not bothered or deterred by no’s.
Now we know that there is a finite number of rejections we have to overcome.
What if your next big opportunity is hidden behind 42 ‘no’s’?
Would you still avoid rejection?
Or would you start collecting them like steps on a ladder?
That simple reframe landed.
Fast forward to now, we just caught up on Zoom.
He’s not avoiding rejection anymore.
He’s chasing it.
He literally said, “I want to hang up and go get another no.”
Not because it feels good.
But because he finally sees the bigger picture:
Each no is not a failure. It’s progress.
It’s one more step toward the yes that matters.
And he’s tracking them, one by one, from 42 down to 1.
That’s what happens when you stop treating rejection as a signal to stop, and start treating it as proof that you're moving.
Want to figure out what’s actually holding you back?
Let’s get real in a private Clarity Call (link under my signature)
Relentlessly dedicated to your profitability,
Dr. Kayvon K
Simplifier & Profit Finder
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