[hpguy]

One thing that helps me is this: whenever I'm in a situation that makes me nervous, I think about even more stressful situations in the past that I went through unscathed. For example, if I get nervous before speaking to a group of 10 people, I would recall events where I managed to present to a larger group of people. I was nervous then, but I "survived" it, no reason to think I wouldn't survive this one either.

[egfx]

It is like this. And I correlate it to tooth pain when biting into sweet candy with a cavity. It hurts like hell but by the time you notice, it’s gone and you’ve survived. Rejection is very painful but it’s important to remember to have a successful life that rejection is a fleeting moment and it can eventually become a passive experience that you can choose to notice and learn from or not and importantly move on from. This should give you the confidence to be “yourself” in any situation. (As you can tell I’ve been to a few classes)