I'm in the process of seeing funding and every "no" feels like a personal failure, even when it's not. How do you keep your spirits up while chasing funding?

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How are you seeking funding? What are you providing? Roadblocks? What value add does the business offer?

You need to take a moment to yourself and write the minimum amount of tries that needs to be met before you are allowed to think your self as "failing". So for instance set 100 tries. So when you get a no, you simply say. "I don't have the write to think I have failed. I haven't had my 100 tries as of yet" and then say, "This to shall pass" and give your self 5 min to grieve, and as soon as that 5 minutes are up. You must be done grieving. Put a timer on your depressed feeling, but still give it a chance to exist, instead of just bottling it up.

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