That’s how many rejections Colonel Sanders received before his dream was accepted. The idea he had come up with was a novel one;  pressure cooked chicken. Remarkable. However, he had to face 300 rejections before his dream turned into reality. Now there are over 11,000 KFC restaurants in over 80 countries in the world!

So, have you been facing rejections lately? Look at things this way, if you had applied to UBC and got rejected, nothing bad happened, because prior to the application you weren’t in UBC then either. Stay committed to your cause and your dream.  Mind, however, that you stay away from resentment. There are over 5.5 Billion people on the planet and remember that someone will say yes!   I love this little trick Jack Canfield shares;

SWSWSWSW which he says stands for:

some will, some won’t; – so what? — someone’s waiting!

Take a look at your product or service to see how you are delivering the message. Perhaps the rejections are a blessing. It may cause you to see where you can improve, and the key is to analogize, improve and  keep going forward.

Short term memory is our amazing friend. It is said that we can remember things  best in up to four chucks of information.  Here’s an example of what I mean. Take a phone  number, and break it down. Let’s use 866.700.5555

so you can remember the first part the middle part and the last part and perhaps a name associated with that number. That would be four parts. Do you trust it to stick though?

Best bet?   write it down. We have so much to remember, especially if we are in business, that we better not push the envelope.

Get in the habit of writing down your daily tasks or goals, and have that all recorded in one place. Namely a day timer of your choice. Most of us are visual, so writing things down in a place where we can see them is huge. However you may the ‘techy type’ and recoding your tasks in a Blackberry is fine for you. Not for most of us. We need to see the list, and be able to cross of our completions.

Still not writing down important ideas? Memory research tells us that a new idea only lasts 40 seconds! Imagine. Do you have a new project you are ready to embark on, a website for example?

Valuable TIP:  assemble a simple binder together and give it a name; like

Cathy’s Big Book of Website Ideas

record everything in one place. If you don’t, who will?

Ideas are nothing more than thin air if they get away on you!