Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First - Episode 184/Rejection Could Sometimes Be The Best Thing to Happen To You

Friday                            16th March 2018

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First

Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 184

Title:          Being Rejected Could Sometimes Be The Best Thing To Happen To You

I haven’t met anyone yet who has not felt the sting of rejection at some point in his or her life.

You have probably been rejected by friends or family, or your teacher, or your job application was turned down.

Maybe you were fired, I don’t know, but that doesn’t mean that you are not good enough.

Often times we are redirected to something better.  

J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter after being sacked as a secretary for ­‘day­dreaming’. 

She then got rejected by not one, not two, but 12 publishers before the Chairman of Bloomsbury brought home the Potter manuscript for his ­daughter Alice to read.  

Almost every record label turned down Beatles.

Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.”

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”

Oprah Winfrey was told she was “unfit for TV.”

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

Rejection can sometimes be a good thing.

Probably most of you know that Facebook bought

WhatsApp for a whopping sum of $16 000 000 000, for those who don’t know what WhatsApp is; it’s an ad-free mobile messaging app that allows users to exchange text and media messages through their Internet data plan or through Wi-Fi. Users do not have to pay for SMS.

But what many of you didn't know  is the story of one of the Co-founders of Whatsapp - Brian Acton.

Brian Acton got his job application rejected by Facebook in 2009

Here's his tweet in the aftermath of the event

then he co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum and then Facebook bought WhatsApp For $16 000 000 000, thus making Brian a Billionaire which he would never have been if he had been employed by Facebook in 2009

I could continue forever. But you have to understand that being rejected is not a bad thing, it’s your attitude when you get rejected that matters.

Don’t you want to prove people wrong when you get rejected?

I do.

Often, you think when you're rejected that you are not good enough, but the truth is they weren't ready for you all you have to offer as at the time you happened on them.

You must become the kind of person who grows from rejection. 

I’ve gotten rejected lots of times–tons. It sucks every single time. It will always hurt. But it doesn’t always have to stop you cold.

When I look at the past months alone since starting podcasting on morning vibes, I have shared the posts to many of my social media friends, asking them to listen, subscribe to our channel and share the podcast.  I’ve been told many times “sorry I don't have data" "I don't understand how to do it" or  “okay, I'll do it later,” and they never get to do it or “I live in internet challenged area" and yet they are able to whatsapp and facebook .

I was rejected by so many people when I asked for help and I continue to get rejected on a daily basis, but that doesn’t matter. I am not giving up.

I am willing to trade 10 000 no’s for just one yes.

Being rejected is not a disaster, disaster is being trapped in a mine, disaster is being in a plane that’s going down.

The possibilities for learning from rejection are endless.

It might be that you realize just how important a particular value is to you compared to someone else (like loyalty). 

Or it could be that you understand now that if you learned to communicate your feelings better, it would make a huge difference in your next relationship.

And since we’re all going to experience AND live through rejection, why not make it a point to learn something?

Have you ever known anyone who has such a level of confidence that they face rejection and come out unscathed?

I guess we all have that one friend who is not scared to go out and ask absolutely every girl he meets, and in the end he always has a date.  

These peoples' “secret” is that they are totally comfortable with the fact that with rejection there can be great learning and growth. 

They are also the individuals who have learned not to take rejection personally. 

They are able to understand that sometimes rejection may be a blessing in disguise and that it can take time for that fact to reveal itself.

You should always remember that there is no shame in being rejected.

The real shame lies in not trying and giving up.

Just remember, sometimes it isn’t about you at all. Sometimes it’s about what the other person’s journey is supposed to be.  It’s a hard lesson, but one that all of us can understand.

So, in your life – have you been “rejected” lately?

And if so, what did you make that mean about yourself?

I know it hurts and it will for a while – this too will pass.

But what did you make the rejection MEAN about yourself?

Did you make it mean something negative about you? Or did you just take it as GRACE and move on?

Until I come your way again, this is #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst

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