Have you ever put your heart and soul into something and had someone completely shut you down?
I had a client contact me this morning saying she was ‘completely deflated.’
She’s worked really hard on putting together a new package. A lot of thought, effort and time has gone into this. She’s been scared to put it out there. But she pushed through and did it anyway.
There’s been some interest (because it’s god damn amazing) so she sent out a couple of messages to let people know it’s available if they’re still interested.
One of the replies she got back has blown my mind. There was some feedback, which she didn’t even ask for.
Pretty much that the way she’s promoting it is going to fail. The thing is she’s done it like this before, so she knows it’s going to work.
Because of one negative comment, the self doubt kicked in. I’ve been there myself and it’s not easy. When self doubt starts taking over, it’s hard to kick it.
But I do know, that for every one of these types of people, there are at least 10 people who will support you no matter what. They love what you do, they back you up, they’ll tell everyone how great you are. And I choose to focus on those people.
There’s a HUGE difference between criticism and constructive criticism. One is helpful and one is well, completely useless. In fact, plain old criticism is usually about the person giving it, not the person receiving it. I generally find that underneath criticism, lies some kind of unhappiness.