Rejection? Whoa!!

Yes, it's the R WORD!  When I started down this path....the trying to actually earn a living with my art path....I heard tell of this monster what would (yes, I meant to type "what would")...anyway, I heard tell of this monster what would be lurkin' in the darkness...waitin' to pounce on unwitting victims.  It's name is

REJECTION!

No matter how much people try to prepare you for this monster, it still hurts. 

It's bad bad bad bad ba-a-a-ad, right?

OR, could there be something good good good gooooood about it?  After wrestling, thinking, and reading about others' rejection experiences, I'd actually say there's a whole lot of good that can come of it.

SO here are my *drum roll, please*

Top 10 Reasons Rejection Can Be Gooooood:

1. It helps us examine where we can improve, then
2. We fight to improve
3. We don't have an over-inflated ego (& who wants that?)
4. We can console others who are going through the same thing
5. It redirects us to the path we need to follow
6. We fight to improve
7. We go "back to the old drawing board" and learn, then
8. We fight to improve
9. We learn to be patient, because, maybe the world just isn't quite ready for our next great thing, but eventually, maybe they will be, and, along the way,
10. We fight to improve.

Are you sensing a pattern, here? 


So, give the R WORD a chance. Embrace it. It's going to come at some point. Many absolutely amazing artists were rejected an astounding number of times before encountering their one big break.  But, if they'd quit, they never would have met with that break.

So, as Dory would say, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming........."