I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. ~ Sylvester Stallone – [Source]
Since the day we are born, we have been hearing, “No!”, “Don’t do that!”, “Stop asking why!” until we automatically accept rejections as a way to stop ourselves from progressing further unlike what Thomas Edison, J. K. Rowling, Bill Gates, Sylvester Stallone have succeeded in their respective fields.
Most of us will tell ourselves, “Look, stupid! See! It was going to be a ‘No’, why did I bother to ask?” or “I knew it would be a flat ‘No’. So why did I waste my time?” Was that what happened when your request for a raise was rejected despite you having talked to your boss politely?
Did you tell your boss about your achievements throughout the year to support your raise request? Did you find out why it was rejected and how you could get a better response the next time you ask? Or just hope that the annual appraisal will look good enough for you to get a raise without you doing all the self-promotion?
We are so tuned in to the rejections that we often overlook the prospects of looking at the rejections from another point of view. It’s just another way to improve ourselves. We might not be great speakers but we can always improve with practice.
Wallowing in self-pity feels awful, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t you want to get it out of your system fast? Don’t you want to be successful too?
Books for Dealing with Rejection
The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
Root of Rejection: Escape the Bondage of Rejection and Experience the Freedom of God’s Acceptance
Straight Talk from the Editor, 18 Keys to a Rejection-Proof Submission
Don’t Take It Personally!: The Art of Dealing with Rejection
Cold Calling for Cowards – How to Turn the Fear of Rejection Into Opportunities, Sales, and Money
How to Thrive on Rejection: A Manual for Survival
Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down: 101 Strategies to Laugh Your Way from Repudiation to Happiness
Starting from No: Ten Strategies to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection and Succeed in Business
No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript that Sells
Rotten Rejections: The Letters That Publishers Wish They’d Never Sent
Rejection-Proof Resumes – Keeping YOUR Resume OUT of the Trash and IN the RIGHT Hands
How did you deal with rejections?
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