Use Your Rejection

Rejection is part of life. Use it to fuel and charge your movement forwards. Rather than viewing it as an obstacle, see how you can convert it into something positive, something to enrich and bolster your soul.

Take courage in the universality of rejection - everyone has been rejected. So how can it be made into something dynamic, something creative or something uplifting?

How can you take this pain, this blockage or obstacle and use it to motivate and drive you towards your true passions, towards making your dreams tangible, towards upholstering others and taking strength in the knowledge that you are still here. You are still in the game of life and have the gift of everyday henceforth to choose. To mark and map out a life filled with vitality, risk and impulse. To steer stability, adventure and to invite connection and community into your world.

Feeling lost, feeling out of place or simply burnt out is an invitation to find, to belong, to rest and reduce. The temptation maybe to crawl into a shell. To hide ourselves away and disconnect. Rejection can become a greater invitation. To surrender to the help available and to use it as an opportunity to improve, to relate, to grow and to learn.

See rejection as a very real and very likely part of life. Particularly for those that risk our hearts, our time and our hopes.

True faith must be tested. Trust must be upset. Conviction must be muddied in order to navigate, to act on impulse and to allow the unexpected, the un-timed and un-imagined to enter our lives. Whilst dreams are important and allowing them to unravel, it is also important to open ourselves to destiny. To accept that at times, what is meant to be is just meant to be. That life is choices. That life has no guidebook and that we are each truly making it up as we go along.

There is no formula, no alga-rhythm that can deliver everlasting balance, beauty and certainty. Life is a living, breathing thing that is entangled in the actions, thoughts and rhythms of everything else around us.

Being part of this eco-system is complicated but by using our strength and fragility to paint a landscape to inhabit, we might embrace the ongoing uncertainty, adventure and opportunity that is life.

So use your rejection as a landing, as a lesson and learn to expect it. Each time it washes over you with less impact. As you learn to convert it into something positive. Be it growth, self-development, compassion, love or empathy.

Use rejection as your fuel and use it to better navigate your worth, your value and your stability in life. Learn to expect rejection and ask how you might best receive it when it reemerges. How you might run through it with fearlessness, passion, humility and purpose.