You don’t reach up to the people you really want to work with, partner with, do business with because ‘someone like that wouldn’t work with someone like me’.
First of all, it’s very bold and borderline arrogant to assume you know the desires of this person you don’t know.
Second, saying ‘someone like that wouldn’t work with someone like me’ further solidifies the false idea in your mind that successful people are different than you and therefore off limits…That you are not them…That they have the achiever gene and on your best day you can only be a successful imposter.
Third, if you never ask, then you never have to feel the pain of rejection. Rejection hurts. Better to avoid it. Better to just believe ‘someone like that wouldn’t work with someone like me’. The assumption limits yourself into an ever present dull pain of life that most people choose to live with rather than reaching up to someone and laying it on the line.
You need to reach up. You have a lot to offer. And they just might be waiting for someone like you.
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