Disappointment is a feeling of sadness or regret and can be triggered by your own inability to do something or the action or inaction of another person. Consider it a swimming pool.

If you went to a five star hotel would you enter the pool? What about the pool in the backyard of an abandoned house? Would you enter that pool, with thick, dark water and an awful stench?

Allowing yourself to be disappointed for any extended period is like entering the murky pool and soaking up the water in it. It's natural to be disappointed, but when you allow disappointments to consume you, then it becomes a problem.

So how do we deal with this?

Whenever something disappointing happens, you now have two minutes to feel disappointed. Two minutes to sit and feel sad. You may shorten it if you so desire, but for beginners, two minutes maximum. After that two minute period though, you are NOT ALLOWED to be disappointed anymore. Whenever disappointments come you should welcome them, because the more disappointments you have the more immune to disappointment you become. The goal is to become fully immune and when you do become fully immune your potential is limitless.

When something potentially disappointing happens to me, I have 0 seconds to feel disappointed. I started at two minutes and I'm now at 0 seconds. I refuse to sit in the murky pool. It takes no time if you understand that whatever disappointments you face are really blessings in disguise. If you never face disappointments, you will never build any immunity.

What do you think Richard Branson would do if he undertook a business venture and lost millions? Do you think he'd sit around and feel disappointed? Of course not, he'd brush himself off and quickly examine what went wrong to ensure that it's not repeated. In fact, Richard Branson attempted to fly around the world a number of times before he was successful at it.

What about Donald Trump. Can you imagine him sitting around sobbing because one major real estate deal fell through? Do you think that he was successful through his first real estate deal, or every maneuver of his has been profitable? The answer is no, but I'd bet there's no prolonged disappointment or moping session on his part when something doesn't go his way.

A law student cried when she got the results of her Bar exams because she failed one course and had to do a resit. While crying she said "I've never failed anything in my life" because she had no immunity to disappointment at the time. The worst thing that could have happened to her prior to getting her results was; failing an exam.

Failing her exam was life's way of granting her immunity. She passed her resit exam and is now practicing law. If she goes to court tomorrow with a difficult judge and five senior lawyers against her, she won't flinch because she now has immunity and is unafraid. A bad day at court will not discourage her because the worst thing that can happen to her has already happened, so she's immune.

When you're thinking that the worst thing that CAN happen to you IS happening to you say thank God, and if you wish note the date. That is the day when life decides to grant you immunity because you will emerge from it immune to failure and disappointment and become unstoppable.

Remember, you only have two minutes, but you can lower it to one, or start at zero seconds and stay there.

You have now been granted immunity.