How Gary Vaynerchuk Became A DigiThin Blessing

The struggle of the baby entrepreneur is plagued with rejections. As I talked about this in my post about being happy to be rejected from Y Combinator, and that I have become stronger and better at dealing with the emotional annihilation when yet again, you hit a rejection.

I invented the rule: For every rejection you get two blessing. 

I am loving this rule because it seems to work, with out fail. Every single time I get a rejection, an amazing blessing or two pop into the picture. Yep, this week I suffered another business rejection. Oh yeah, I boo whooed about it a bit, slipped into self pity a bit, then bounced back, to get my ass kicked by Joshua Davidson, and that was blessing number one in disguise.

Joshua is one of the youngest most brilliant entrepreneurs on the scene. His company ChopDawg Studios built my website. His team did not just build my website, they also scoop me up every time I hit a roadblock, and lay flattened on the pavement. They help me out every step of the journey, with out hesitation. Sometimes that includes a little ass kicking. So Joshua's ass kicking blessing lead to blessing number two.

Gary Vaynerchuk, was blessing number two for DigiThin. Upon complying with my ass kicking strategy, imposed by Joshua, I  had to do some studying as my assignment. During this video watching of Mr. Vaynerchuk, I had fallen into a sign up for this or sign up for that type of thing. So I did. Well, one of those things said, email me, that would be Mr.Vaynerchuk. I don't know why that little pop up box instructed me to email him, but that's what it said to do, so I did it.

I thought I had nothing to say to Mr. Vaynerchuk, but turns out my mind thought of something to say, not much, just a little tiny comment. I hit enter and would I ever expect to get a reply back from the CEO of Vaynermedia ? Not a chance. I'm feeding at the bottom of the ocean of entrepreneurs, my head has not even come out of the water, and he's at the opposite end of the entrepreneur scale, he's like on the moon, his power shines all over the world. Why would he respond to me? And why would he have the time to?

But he did. He said ten words to me, and you know what that did to me? I swam a little higher up towards the surface. He empowered me, the small fish. He gave me HOPE. His action to reply to me was indeed a blessing. He is the man on the moon, why should he care about a tiny little fish? Because he knows were all here to help each other. His action gave me the power to keep fighting.

When us entrepreneurs are fighting for our startup, were fighting for what we believe in. I'm fighting for all the people who struggle to lose weight, the obese, the morbidly obese. I'm fighting for those people, because I want to set them free from the suffering that I lived through for years. I know how painful it is to struggle with a weight problem. I want to bless them, all of them, big and small fish.

Thanks to Joshua Davidson and Gary Vaynerchuk for DigiThin's two blessings this round of rejection.

For every rejection you will get two blessings. Keep building your startups. I'm actually looking forward to my next rejection. : - )  

~ Jana