If you can learn this lesson, you will change your life.
It's about rejection.

It's a lesson that Elizabeth Gilbert talks about when she shares that her strategy for managing rejection letters was to send another piece out immediately.  She would say to the letter "you can't scare me"
"There are people who haven’t even been born yet who are gonna reject me someday – that’s how long I plan to stick around.”

It's a lesson that my good friend and colleague, Lisa Dion, talks about in this video for the upcoming Business of Therapy course.

And the lesson is
What is this rejection teaching me?
What did I get INSTEAD of the thing that I got rejected by? 
Where did my energy go instead?

The one I hear the most often from my play therapists colleagues is:
I submitted a conference proposal and didn't get selected.

(Yep...ME TOO!!)

For others, it might be a book proposal, an audition, a job application, a date, even?   Whatever it is...we have all been rejected.

Now, listen to Lisa's video and think about what happened
Where did your energy go instead?
What opportunity arose?  Who did you spend time with? 

This alternative opportunity was the result of the rejection.

It's an interesting journal exercise. 

No one wants to be rejected.  But, as Liz Gilbert says
"there are people who haven't been born yet that will reject me someday"

and that's okay...because your energy goes back into honing your craft, to doubling down on your research, to refining your message, to finding your community. 
To growth. 
In the end, it is just another way to grow.

I love the way that Xavier Dagba puts in that meme at the top
(want to share it? it's on my facebook page)

"Rejection either means:  try again or to take a different route, but in absolutely no case does it mean that you are not good enough"