#15) Listen to This When You Feel Rejected

Welcome to Episode #15: Listen to this episode when you feel rejected.

• You may have applied for a job that you were really interested in -- and got turned down because someone thought you were unqualified.
• You may have applied to 100 jobs—and not gotten one call back.
• You may have gotten passed up on a promotion.

The goal of this episode is to lift you out of a rejected state -- and get you in a place where you can continue fighting for your purpose.

Preview of Core Concepts of Understanding Rejection:

1. Everybody goes through it—even some of the greatest people in our history. (Henry Ford, Michael Jordan, Albert Einstein, J.K. Rowling)
2. Understand what you are feeling and why you are feeling it. (There is a science behind acknowledging your emotion: research has shown that when you identify what core emotion you are feeling, then it instantly becomes more manageable).
3. Remember that your core identity (who you really are) goes way beyond these external things.

What to do now.

• Keep going: case and point. Remember that the results-oriented things in life (your success) is a numbers game.
• Find a group of people trying to achieve the same thing that you are. Relate to them.
• When you feel rejected, label your emotion, and remind yourself of your core identity -- and why you're going to keep going.

Sources:

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sweet-emotion/201408/why-labeling-emotions-matters
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/24/jk-rowling-tells-fans-twitter-loads-rejections-before-harry-potter-success
• https://www.businessinsider.com/successful-people-who-failed-at-first-2014-3#after-harrison-fords-first-small-movie-role-an-executive-took-him-into-his-office-and-told-him-hed-never-succeed-in-the-movie-business-18
• https://www.newsweek.com/missing-cut-382954
• https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/celebs-who-went-from-failures-to-success-stories/3/