WEEK THIRTY-FIVE:
NAY SAYERS
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
JK Rowling's manuscript for Harry Potter was rejected by multiple publishers. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Walt Disney was fired from Kansas City Star because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
Oprah Winfrey got fired as an evening news
reporter because she couldn't sever her emotions from
her stories. What all these people have in common is the painful rejection and negativity they experienced before proving the nay-sayers wrong.
Who's to say that your story can't be the same? You are not who you think you are. You are also not who people think you are, but you are who you think people think you are. How you see yourself from the perspective of those around you is important.