Welcome to The Disruptors Podcast! In this episode, Rob answers questions from M- a Disruptive Entrepreneur Community member, about how to stop pedestalising your competition and in turn, making yourself feel insignificant or of no value compared to those people. It is a common issue entrepreneurs face, especially when they look to grow. How do you avoid putting yourself down by saying “They’re better than me” without taking it the other way and looking at your competition in a negative light? Rob explains all and how he dealt with this issue in his own experience as he became the Disruptive Entrepreneur he is today. KEY TAKEAWAYS Practice an abundant mindset. There is room in the marketplace for all of us. Without competition, there would be no marketplace! There would be no fair prices, no fair exchange. Your competitors actually make you work to keep improving your products and services, which in turn increases you or your business’s value and ability to solve problems. Be grateful for your competition. You learn more from your competition than you do from your supporters, as they challenge you to craft something as good as (or even better than) their products and services. Your competition challenges you to improve on your weaknesses and evaluate why you do what you do. Embrace criticism- it will only help you grow. We seek validation from others, and the place we find that is with our followers and fans, but as nice as these comments are, they are deep within our comfort zone which we all know is the place we never grow. By embracing critics and criticism, you can open yourself to a world of possibilities if you just listen and take on board what you could do in order to improve. To be happy, you first have to be uncomfortable. Reaching outside of your comfort zone feels scary, exciting and nerve-wrecking all at once, but embracing the unfamiliarity and allowing yourself to progress through testing times will ultimately get you further toward your goal, thus giving you a sense of achievement and a boost of happiness that will then encourage you to progress even further. Rejection is just one step closer to a win.  Rejection feels tough, but the more it happens, the more resistant you become to it, and the closer you get to success.   BEST MOMENTS “No one is rejection proof. Everybody feels vulnerable. Let’s be honest, who likes rejection? No one. If someone says they like rejection, what they’ve done, is, they’ve learned to manage the meaning of rejection in their mind.” “ Every master was once a disaster. Every winner was once a beginner” “When you feel you’re superior, you will have to be humbled. When you feel you’re inferior, you will often get supported” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES The Science of Happiness (Book) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Happiness-brains-happy-happier/dp/1922247219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535278357&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Science+of+Happiness Reject me, I love it! (Book) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reject-Me-Rejection-Direction-Anniversary/dp/1974476723/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535278485&sr=1-1&keywords=Reject+Me%2C+I+Love+It https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979   disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com