Rejection and Overcoming Rejection in Your Life

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Overcoming rejection, and dealing with rejection is something nobody likes to go through but is a very fact and reality of life. No doubt you too have experienced being rejected, whether you were rejected because of your race, looks or your weight .

Or maybe you have experienced emotional rejection in a failed relationship or marriage that didn’t go as you had expected or you experienced rejection in your career or in your failed work at home venture that did not materialize.

If you think I have not experienced rejection, don’t be mistaken, I have been rejected more than I care to admit, but I am a survivor of rejection and refuse to be defeated and defined by the world’s standard definition of rejection. You can read my story about me . You see, like you, I too have been dealt with numerous rejections in my life but I choose not to accept that which I am capable of changing.

Overcoming Rejection In Your Life

PRAY:

I firmly believe in the power of prayer for any situation in life that you are experiencing and believe that our Lord God created us to serve and worship Him.

Don’t worry for you skeptics on Christianity, this is not a sermon on the mount speech trying to indoctrinate you into believing and accepting my spiritual views. This is not my point. My point is for you to open your eyes and your heart I might add, that you are not the center of the universe as you may believe or may have been told. The Lord is.

However you need to be open minded that the power of prayer is indeed very powerful in overcoming rejection. God does hear yours and my prayers of petition and genuinely loves and cares for His children.

I challenge you next time to bow down and pray to God to help you in any and all situations you are going through. Obviously your current plan or system isn’t working too well, so what do you have to lose?

REFLECT:

Reflect on the rejection you just experienced and try to think why things happened as they did. Reflection is a powerful tool in trying to figure out why things happened as they did. By reflecting upon what you did, and why things turned out as they did in your being rejected, you are better prepared not to make the same mistakes twice the next time.

Make a mental note of things and events that just happened in your life in your being rejected and be aware of what steps you need to do next time to arrive at a more favorable outcome. Realize also that sometimes, certain things are just out of your control and you can not affect the outcome-this is OK. But you have greater recourse by noting what you can do in moving forward.

ACCEPT:

Acceptance is probably the hardest part of the rejection process, however if you want to see personal growth and development from this painful experience, accepting what happened as it is-is positive starting point.

Let me make a very important point: Acceptance doesn’t mean Failure Acceptance in this situation is simply accepting the most recent events that resulted in your facing rejection period. This could be just a temporal setback in your road to personal and professional development.

Everyone get’s rail -roaded at times, we lose focus and our bearings and we do not hit the goals we set out today. But it does not imply failure unless you choose to accept it as so.

PERSEVERE:

God has equipped us with all the cognitive reasoning we ever need, we are only tasked with using our brains, to apply the knowledge we have learned. To that end, there will be set backs in your life, temporal blips that did not reach fulfillment for whatever reason. You must not give up but instead must persevere.

Perseverance holds the Keys to Success.

You are both your greatest friend and foe. Remember that next time you are ready to throw in the towel and quit. You are only limited by your own failures which you choose to accept or not.

Remember: "The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt"

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