Have you ever been rejected?
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It doesn’t feel good, I know.
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But what if you used that rejection to fuel your fire🔥 and become even more amazing?
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Instead of allowing it to bring you down, let it motivate you.
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I’ve been checking my email for weeks in hopes of an acceptance email. You usually can tell by the header. “Congratulations!”
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Today the email came, except it was a rejection email.
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For a brief moment I let the sting set in and bring me down. The questions began circling through my mind. How? Why? What could I have done different?
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I quickly put a stop to it and decided I would continue submitting to them. After all, what’s the worst thing that can happen?
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So many people share their successes and leave out their failures. I’ve been guilty of doing that myself ✋🏼. I think many of us have feelings of shame in rejection and failure. It’s embarrassing.
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Have you been rejected recently? Or have you had a recent success? Either way, I’d love to hear about it! Comment below and let’s lift each other up and inspire one another.
What Lights You Up?
Teaching has been a part of my life since I was 17 years old.
I started teaching piano lessons to children when I was straight out of high school. It was such a fun and rewarding time.
When I had my son at 22 I remember some of the parents would ask me to bring him to the lessons so they could hold him and play with him.
Shortly after my daughter arrived I set piano lessons aside and picked up a camera. I quickly developed a passion to learn more and be a photographer.
It took me YEARS to say aloud that I was a photographer. Piano teacher was all I knew. Who was I to call myself a photographer yet alone an artist?!
Now, my teaching continues. I made my dream come true and I teach at The Define School.
But here’s the thing....those children that I taught piano lessons to? They taught me just as much.
The women who have taken my Expressive Self Portraiture class? They have taught me just as much.
Not only that, but they have touched my heart and left an impact on me that’s almost indescribable.
Teaching lights me up. What lights you up?
