Rejection Is Your Protection
What I want you to take from this story, is to not dwell in your rejection for too long, but move on and explore!
The title is pretty self-explanatory. Have you ever encountered false hope, or thought that a big offer is bound to fall through, and then suddenly something gets in the way and it doesn’t work out in your favor? You might feel like the world is just against you at that very moment.
Have you ever heard the saying Rejection is God’s Protection? Well, I must explain why that is very true. There are times in our lives when we face unexpected mishaps and want to figure it out or solve the issue. In today’s post, we’ll touch base on dealing with such instances. Rejection is defined as a dismissive or refusal of an idea, proposal, etc. Continue reading on ways, to ‘cope’ with rejection that might be saving you gem.
Whenever I’ve encountered rejection, which happens to be numerous times, I’ve always allowed myself to understand exactly what it has taught me. The way I analyze rejection may be different from how you view it, so keep this in mind. Anyways, there was a time in my life when I thought I was bound to get this dream social media manager position with a big-time retail company. I received an email a couple of days after applying claiming their interest in me as a potential candidate along with an interview. I was to take the next steps to create a mock campaign for this company, a major moment for me I must say! I went ahead and went straight to work mode to deliver the best campaign I’ve ever created for this dream ‘job’. I even took it a step further and told a close acquaintance at the time about it, and informed them that I’d love input and evaluation throughout the process to which they agreed.
Fast forward to gathering what I’d be implementing onto this campaign, I’m talking Pinterest pics to curating mockups from the company’s site and a prompted Powerpoint… I mean went in y’all, I was so overwhelmed with joy. I even made sure to explain per Powerpoint slide exactly what I meant throughout. Now it’s finally the end of the week, I went ahead and sent in this campaign I put my all in, and presented it to my acquaintance which she expressed was executed easy to follow, and lovely. Boom to me, for some odd reason was all the confirmation I needed. Finally, I made my composed email, made a clear subject line for this company, and sent in what felt like my pride and joy. Now it’s time to wait for the follow-up update from them, “We are interested to set up an interview with you as we are impressed with your campaign assignment” email. Only if I knew what was coming, which was nothing. I mean silence, not even a response back nor a thank you, and you know how I took that as my cue and I sat with it. Did I cry? Absolutely no, but I sure took it with grace to only begin and cultivate this blog.
That was the moment I realized my creative sense and decided why not go full blast and share this hidden gift. See what I did there? I registered this rejection as a step toward who truly am I, and that was satisfying. I never looked back, took that NO as a personal sign to soar. Now I’m 3 years into SilviaNextDoor and I’m loving it! All and all gem, what I want you to take from this story, is to not dwell in your rejection for too long, but move on and explore! There’s always something better out there for you.