Whether it’s in your personal or work life, rejection is unfortunately just something in life that needs to be dealt with occasionally. It’s not fun for anyone, but the way you handle rejection says a lot about you and even if you have a hard time with it these tips could help you get over it easier and quicker. Rejection is never easy but with a few simple tips you can make the mourning process significantly better.
Don’t Take It Personally
Whatever this rejection was, whether it was for a job or in a potential relationship, taking it personally is only going to make you more hurt, more angry and more irritated. None of that is conducive to accepting the problem and trying to get over it. No matter what, you shouldn’t look at this as a personal attack, but rather it just is what it is.
It’s not easy to think this way, but it will go a long way towards making you feel more confident and better about the problem than if you dwell on it and make it about you personally as an individual.
Prepare For The Worst
Sometimes mentally preparing yourself for the worst possible outcome actually makes the rejection so much easier if it does happen. If you go into something thinking that you for sure are going to get the job or the person is going to say yes, if they don’t or you don’t get it it’s only going to hit you harder.
While you should never be in a continual negative state, sometimes preparing yourself for the potential rejection can make the blow a bit easier to handle when it actually happens because it’s less of a shock to the system.
Maintain Your Focus
Even if the rejection was awful and made you feel like crap, try and maintain your focus. If this is a job search and you didn’t get the job, think to yourself, that’s ok. Apply to more jobs and don’t let it hold you back, instead use it as a driver to make you work harder for what you want.
Try to spin it around and make it more of a positive thing.
Take Time To Mourn
You can’t get over something if you don’t allow yourself to acknowledge how it made you feel in the first place. It’s not a nice thing to do, but giving yourself that time and space to process what happened is a crucial step in moving forward. Take as much time as you need to process and be upset, it’s normal and it’s ok.
Learn From Your Mistakes
Once you’ve taken the time to process and accept what happened, look at it as a learning experience. You didn’t get the job? Ok, what could you have done to change the outcome and what can you do in the future? You asked someone out and they said no? Ok, they weren’t right for you. That’s all ok! Take away the positives and experiences from this rather than focusing solely on the negative.
Rejection is hard, but with these five tips you’ll be able to handle it like a pro and move on quicker and easier than before.
