How rejection helped billionaire Spanx founder Sara Blakely ... Am motivated !

Before she became the billionaire founder of shapewear company
Spanx, Sara Blakely failed a lot.
She didn't make it as a standup comedian. She couldn't become a
lawyer like her dad because she failed the LSAT — twice.
She even auditioned to play Goofy at Disney World, but because she
was shorter than the required 5'8", they made her a Chipmunk
instead,

The Billionaire spent seven years
selling fax machines and was rejected almost daily. People would
hang up on her cold calls and rip up her business card in front of her.
"It was great life training," Blakely said.
All that training proved useful when she cut the feet off her pantyhose
one day and realized she had a viable product: a slimming, seamless undergarment that no one would know you were wearing. She kept her day job selling fax machines and worked on the Spanx prototype nights and weekends. While looking for a manufacturer to
produce it, she spent months knocking on doors of North Carolina
factories and getting them slammed in her face, she said. "Who are you?" they would ask. "Sara
Blakely," she would say. "Who are you with?" they'd ask. "Sara Blakely," she'd say. "Who is backing you
financially?" they'd ask. "Sara Blakely!" she'd say.
Finally, she said, one guy "took pity" on her. After initially rejecting
her, he'd reconsidered. He said he had daughters.

The rest, as they say, is history. Spanx is now a household name, and Blakely is one of the world's wealthiest self- made women billionaires.
The false starts and constant rejection taught her something
profound about herself.
"One of my greatest
weaknesses," Blakely said, "is also one of my greatest strengths: being
underestimated."

I am so motivated !
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