Rejected…
You ask for something and you get rejected. Sounds familiar?
If you are in the “self help” world, you just “motivate yourself” and “persist” and go and ask some more people. If you get rejected again, you “don’t give up” and you “walk the extra mile”.
Before you do all that, please think what is the cost for the other person to TOTALLY ignore you. If it is bordering zero, may be you have to first work on your identity and then go back to making requests.
Foreground/Background
What you see is typically a very small part when compared to what you don’t see.
There is only so much visible in the foreground. So much more is in the background. Unless you have the maturity to “see the background” without actually seeing it, you may have missed a large part of what is in front of you.
What you don’t see is equally or more important than what you see sometimes.
A thought
Are you better at what you do than you were a month or two ago?
A lot better?
How did you get better? What did you read or try? Did you fail at something and learn from it? Does that mindless stuff you do at work when the boss isn’t looking make you better or just pass the time?
If you got better faster, would that be a good thing? How could you make that happen?
A lot of questions…. But the truth is that work rewards improvement. It didn’t used to. It used to reward stability.
