<p><img decoding="async" title="Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/joe-tye-smll.jpg" alt="Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author" align="left" /><em>Me-jection: Giving in to the fear of rejection by rejecting yourself before you even ask for what you want or need.</em></p>
<p>Me-jection is a number one cause of failure and unhappiness.</p>
<p>It is why salespeople don&#8217;t meet their sales goals &#8211; they don&#8217;t make the necessary calls because they hear the word &#8220;No&#8221; so concretely in their imaginations it paralyzes them from picking up the phone or knocking on the door.</p>
<p>It is why would-be authors stare at blank yellow pads year after year, never getting around to writing the books that are burning in their souls &#8211; they can already see the stack of rejection letters before they&#8217;ve written down the first word. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2010/12/never-me-ject-yourself-by-joe-tye/" title="Permanent Link: Never Me-ject Yourself! By Joe Tye" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":316,"date":"2010-12-13T22:53:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T03:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:32:38","slug":"never-me-ject-yourself-by-joe-tye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/12\/never-me-ject-yourself-by-joe-tye\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Me-ject Yourself! By Joe Tye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/joe-tye-smll.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author\" align=\"left\" \/><em>Me-jection: Giving in to the fear of rejection by rejecting yourself before you even ask for what you want or need.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Me-jection is a number one cause of failure and unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p>It is why salespeople don&#8217;t meet their sales goals &#8211; they don&#8217;t make the necessary calls because they hear the word &#8220;No&#8221; so concretely in their imaginations it paralyzes them from picking up the phone or knocking on the door.<\/p>\n<p>It is why would-be authors stare at blank yellow pads year after year, never getting around to writing the books that are burning in their souls &#8211; they can already see the stack of rejection letters before they&#8217;ve written down the first word. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/12\/never-me-ject-yourself-by-joe-tye\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Never Me-ject Yourself! By Joe Tye\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}