rejected much?

have you ever been rejected? by a person? a team? a squad? a job? a club? a friend?

if you haven't, you're missing out. wait, what?

i started college in the fall of 2004, and i graduated in the winter of 2007. worst time ever to graduate with a degree because you couldn't get a job no matter how qualified! you were young and no one was hiring people without gobs of experience...if they were hiring at all.

i was lucky because i had a job waiting for me after i graduated, but it was a 24 hour/365 kind of job, so don't all that excited for me. don't get me wrong either--i was super grateful to take a stab at a dream i had been dreaming for most of my childhood. i got a record deal.

but that's not what i'm talking about in this post. (i was rejected all the time in the years i was touring and singing and writing if you were wondering--by radio, by tours, by television, by film and

tv music supervisors, etc.) :)

so what am i getting at?

rejection made myself and my peers hungry. not just hungry for money, but hungry for survival. we felt blessed to have a job at all when thousands and thousands of people got laid off. we know no security in our jobs now, so we don't take them for granted.

as our country is crawling out of a recession, we are finding ourselves to have a scrappiness that can really help us thrive as young professionals.

personally, rejection has helped me come to where i am right now as a writer. i've always written everything down. always, whether it was a in a journal (i have 27 now), re-writing my

notes from school (yes, really), my church sermon notebook, or my prayer book. i'm sure there are more, but i can't think :)

i always knew i was a writer (it's plain as day that i love it), but it wasn't as obvious that i was an author.  until now that is.  see why being rejected has been good for me? it led me here. it whittled down my jobs and opportunities until i got to this moment.

and now it's here, so i can safely say: rejection is my friend.

what's your story? what has rejection done for you lately?

have a great day!!!

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