How to overcome fear of rejection: I Want to Start a Business.

So the real question about your fear isn't whether you feel it. You do, and the chapters ahead will show you why you probably always will. The question is whether reason agrees with it, and by reason I mean evidence: numbers, laws, and the actual record of what has happened to people in your position. Has anybody ever sat down and done that checking with you?

From the introduction

You probably won't throw up before your first sales call, but you may feel something close to it. So who is standing in your locker room? If the people around you hear your nerves and tell you to reconsider, find one person who will hear the same thing and grin, because a team that reads your fear as readiness is worth more than a team that keeps asking whether you are sure.

From chapter 8: Do not calm down

That is how the book looks at “how to overcome fear of rejection”: one idea at a time, with a step you can take right away. Of course, this is only one idea from the book. So, if this passage speaks to you, the full chapter goes further, and it ends with an exercise you can do the same evening.

In short, the book has 11 chapters, and each one ends with a practical exercise. Therefore, you can read it in order, or you can go straight to the part about “how to overcome fear of rejection”.

1. The safer road
2. Afraid people see different odds
3. Unknown is not unlikely
4. Nobody checked your fear's record
5. The worst case is written in a law you have never read
6. What happened to the people it happened to
7. When the coward is right
8. Do not calm down
9. The price of the safe choice
10. Courage does not delete the fear
11. Beginning while afraid

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business: I'm a Coward, and These Are the Eleven Fears Worth Checking in the stores below. Because every title of this book shares the same text, you can simply pick the one you like best. Also, the book is available in 19 languages.

In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.

• I Want to Start a Business: The Coward's Evidence for Starting Anyway
• I Want to Start a Business: Why I Haven't Yet, and What the Evidence Says About That
• I'm a Coward: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears Say Don't
• I Want to Start a Business: A Fear by Fear Check Before You Begin
• I Want to Start a Business: Eleven Fears, Eleven Exercises, One Evening Each
• I'm a Coward: Eleven Fears About Starting a Business, and the Evidence Behind Each One
• I'm a Coward: The Fear of Starting a Business, Checked One Study at a Time
• But I'm a Coward: I Want to Start a Business. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth.
• But I'm a Coward: Eleven Fears About Starting a Business, Checked Against the Evidence
• Am I a Coward?: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth

See all 45 titles. Go to the book page.