Rejection, Failure, #Try Again

This post was inspired by real life frustration. The door keeps slamming in your face. The cliche takes over, “if at first you don’t succeed try again.”

You’re ambitious, confident, and well motivated, among being prepared, and knowledgeable in your niche. At this point you should be begging someone to please tell you what  you’re doing wrong?

I remember in Pre – Kindergarten there was this toy block that had holes cut out of various shapes, and the objective was to put the right shape pieces through their matching holes.

As easy as it was to play the game, I remember some kids shoving the wrong shape pieces through the holes. Even when the pieces obviously didn’t fit, they would press, push, and even sometimes BANG on them.

I would consider that an example of most peoples approach to “if at first you don’t succeed try again.” Of course we never give in, we never stop trying, but when we fail, it’s important we try again with a different approach.

When we’re talking to people who love to say no to us, it’s not smart for us to repeatedly run back to them for more beatings. It only depletes our energy and wastes time. We try again, by looking for new people who will say yes to what we have to offer.

The same concept applied to school: If  we’re constantly receiving (F)antastic’s on class tests, we throw away our preparation habits, we don’t toss the entire class.

Leave with this:

You’re not a reject, a failure, mishap, or whatever else is out there these days. Realize you might just be a person who’s inefficient at finding the people who can and will say yes to you. Life is hard enough. We don’t run through brick walls. Opening doors uses less energy and produces more results.