Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.
I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.