Tag: failures

Turning Rejections Around

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘…You are also allowed to be the rejecter and say no when something is posed as a great opportunity but just doesn’t feel right.’- Sam Jay

‘If you care enough about your work, you will be able to get past rejections.’– Alysia Reiner

‘When one door closes, another one opens.’- Alysia Reiner

‘It’s powerful to share experiences of rejection. … By sharing your vulnerability and your hardships, you give other people permission to do so as well. Then collectively, we’re able to kind of grow stronger together.’- Polly Rodriquez

‘After a rejection, you have to stop your own destructive narration, the looping story in which you tell yourself what just happened.’– Rachel Platten

‘Volunteering is one of the best possible ways to overcome a failure. because all of a sudden you’re not focused on what you don’t have. You’are focused on all that you can give.’- Rachel Platten

‘Treat your inner artist like a kindergartener in art class. Be gentle rather than critical.’- Rachel Platten

‘When you are trying to make a change, acknowledge that whatever the pushback, there is often validity in other people’s concerns.’- Marilyn Carlson Nelson

‘You know what would be bizzare? If you never failed and you never got rejected.’– Sarah Koenig

‘When you get rejected, you feel like you’re the only one to whom this has happened- but that’s not true. Failure happens to everyone.’- Angela Duckworth

‘Authenticity is all about staying true to your values, not to one particular communication style.’

Jessica Bacal (2021). The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up At Work

10 Tips On How To Be The Best You Can be

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

Life is not going to do for you what you can do for yourself. Life will help you when you help yourself.

God will help you when you help yourself. No one is going to do for you what you are capable of doing for yourself.

You can create your own perfect life. To get there, you must first believe that you can have it, that it is possible.

According to Denis Waitley, ‘The greatest risk in life is doing nothing.’ If you do nothing, then do not expect anything. And your train will never leave the station.

‘Success is the process of learning, sharing, and growing.’ What does success mean to you? What does it really mean to you? Whatever it means in your world, just know that success is not about you. It is about how you live your life.

‘The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.’ Knowledge is not enough to create success. But when you use your knowledge to drive your actions, nothing can stop you from achieving your success. So if you want to see results, you must get to work.

‘To build the habit of success, we better know how to handle failure.’ Failure is a way forward. When you fail, learn from it.

‘Self-discipline means doing within while you do without.‘ When you do what others don’t want to do, even when you do not like to do it, that is self-discipline. To be successful, you must discipline yourself.

‘Stop stewing and start doing.’ It doesn’t matter what you want. If you do not take action to make it happen, you are not going anywhere. Because nothing happens without action.

‘See yourself making your goal happen.’ When you see it, you can go after it. If you want to bring your dreams to life, see them before you meet them.

‘If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.’ What you stand for says a lot about you. If you believe in justice, then stand up for it. Do not be scared to fight for people who cannot do it for themselves. When you fight for one, you fight for all.

‘It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.’ We do it. We are good at paying attention to what we don’t have. We are not interested in what we are good at.

Guess what? We are capable of more than we are actually doing right now. Look, if we are to move forward, we must start focusing on what we have, on what is going for us. If not, we will always feel empty.

Whatever it is that you want, if you want to get it, you have got to leave your station.