3 ways to handle rejections!

 

Rejections are part of the game. There is no such a thing as winning without losing. Rejections will come, and we must understand they are part of the journey, and they should never be taken personally.

1)  REJECTION IS A MYTH!

First we must remember, rejection is a myth. It is quite simple. What if we asked a girl for a date, and she rejected it. Does that make us a failure. Certainly not. We have lived without her, and we can certainly live after that…but it us our own self. If we let ourselves tell that we are unattractive, useless, and terribly ugly then we take those things to heart, and that is what which breaks our heart. Instead, take a rejection as a myth. It is not permanent.

2)  Some will, Some won’t, So What…..

It is a sign of maturity to understand that some will say yes, and some will say no. But does that mean we are failure. No.No.No. We are not. Rejections happen for everyone, but if you persist then someone is surely going to say yes.

 

3)  JUST SAY “NEXT!”

This is  another powerful word besides, Ask. If we keep asking we are going to get answers. We might get a yes or a no, but when we receive a no, we got to say a word called, “next”. After every rejection tell next. Keep telling next and someone will surely say yes. This is called perseverance.

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor

is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that

you’ve addressed it “to the editor who can appreciate my work”

and it has simply come back stamped “not at this address.”

Just keep looking for the right address.

BARBAR A KINGSOLV ER

Best-selling author of The Poisonwood Bible

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear

to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

SYLV ESTER STA LLONE

Actor, writer, and director

Here are SOME FAMOUS REJECTIONS

The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling

which would lift that book above the “curiosity”level.

From the rejection slip for The Diary of Anne Frank

Everyone who has ever made it to the top has had to endure rejections. You

just have to realize that they are not personal. Consider the following:

■ When Alexander Graham Bell offered the rights to the telephone

for $100,000 to Carl Orton, president of Western Union, Orton

replied, “What use would this company make of an electrical toy?”

■ Angie Everhart, who started modeling at the age of 16, was once told

by model agency owner Eileen Ford that she would never make it as

a model. Why not? “Redheads don’t sell.” Everhart later became the

first redhead in history to appear on the cover of Glamour magazine,

had a great modeling career, and then went on to appear in 27 films

and numerous TV shows.

■ Novelist Stephen King almost made a multimillion-dollar mistake

when he threw his Carrie manuscript in the garbage because he was

tired of the rejections. “We are not interested in science fiction

which deals with negative utopias,” he was told. “They do not sell.”

Luckily, his wife fished it out of the garbage. Eventually Carrie was

printed by another publisher, sold more than 4 million copies, and

was made into a blockbuster film.

■ In 1998, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page approached

Yahoo! and suggested a merger. Yahoo! could have snapped up the

company for a handful of stock, but instead they suggested that the

young Googlers keep working on their little school project and

come back when they had grown up. Within 5 years, Google had an

estimated market capitalization of $20 billion. At the time of this

writing, they were about to launch an initial public offering auction

that eventually raised $1.67 billion.

 

It is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A.

From the rejection slip for George Orwell’s Animal Farm

The record for the most astounding number of rejections would probably be

John Creasey’s. A popular British mystery writer, Creasey collected 743 rejection

slips before he sold his first book! Impervious to rejection, over the

next 40 years he went on to publish 562 full-length books under 28 different

pseudonyms! If John Creasey can handle 743 rejections on his way to success,

so can you.