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The 100 Rejection Challenge 💪
DAY ONE: THE MOST TERRIFYING WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😰 The challenge began on a Monday morning in January when I walked into a Krispy Kreme and asked if they would make me a donut in the shape of the Olympic rings, and the employee stared at me for approximately three seconds before saying no with the particular expression reserved for customers whose requests suggest either creativity or mental illness and she was not sure which, and I thanked her and walked out and drove to my car where I sat for ten minutes with my heart pounding and my face burning from the specific shame of having been rejected for an absurd request that I had made deliberately as the first step in a hundred-day challenge to get rejected at least once every day for one hundred consecutive days, a challenge I had designed to systematically desensitize myself to the fear of rejection that had been controlling every significant decision of my life since childhood 🍩
By The Curious Writera day ago in Motivation
Cornflakes, a Trapped Fly and the First Time I Said 'No'
I was standing in the kitchen when it happened. Late afternoon, that heavy kind of light that makes everything look a little tired. A fly kept tapping itself against the glass like it had somewhere better to be.
By Imola Tóth2 days ago in Motivation
You're not a moment Frozen in Time
The first thing I see in the morning when I wake up is the ceiling fan spinning above me. I lay in bed for a few minutes watching it as the morning sun creeps in through the blinds. For the first time in my life, there is no heavy dread sitting on my chest when I wake up. The crushing weight that used to make even breathing feel like an impossible task is gone. I stay curled up in the blankets for just a few minutes while the fan blows cool air around and just breathe before choosing to get out of bed and prepare for the rest of the day. This is the first win. My own private success that occurs before the kids even start to stir.
By Sara Wilson3 days ago in Motivation
From Zero to the 1%
When Marcus was 22, his bank account balance was $17.43. He knew the exact number because he had checked it five times that day. Not out of hope... out of habit. Each time the number stayed the same, like a stubborn reminder that life hadn’t gone the way he imagined.
By MIGrowth3 days ago in Motivation
The Rejection Board
THE WALL OF FAILURE 📌 On the wall behind my desk there is a corkboard covered with rejection letters, declined proposals, ignored emails, and screenshots of turned-down applications that collectively represent the most valuable education I have ever received, and I call it my Rejection Board and I add to it regularly not out of masochism but out of the genuine belief developed through experience that each rejection represents a step forward rather than a step backward because rejection means I attempted something, and attempting is the only activity that has ever produced results in any domain of my life while avoidance, which is rejection's alternative, has never produced anything except the comfortable stagnation that I spent my twenties mistaking for safety 💪
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Motivation
