What's My Better Opportunity?
Rejections hurt. We can pivot with a good question: What's my better opportunity?
Last Tuesday provided me with practice to manage rejection and disappointment.
I had applied for two grants and received notifications we didn’t receive funding for either within just a few hours. Ugh.
I was particularly frustrated because I worked through Memorial Day weekend for one and through Fourth of July weekend for the second.
It’s a lot of work to submit these grants, which makes me doubt pursuing these opportunities that take so much time without offering much of a return on the time investment. I started to wonder, Why bother? What’s the point?
But that question, Why bother, leaves me feeling down, defeated.
I decided to pivot from that question to one that moves me out of pity: “What’s the better opportunity for us?”
I happened to be speaking at a conference in Springfield, Ill., when I received the Nos. My workshop, Asking the Right Questions to Drive Change, gave me the perfect opportunity to use the skill of asking good questions to feel better.
I decided to pivot from that question to one that moves me out of pity: “What’s the better opportunity for us?” I said that question to myself and then wrote it down.
A few hours later, when I began my workshop, I used this example of how to use a good question to feel better after receiving bad news. The bad news turned into an opportunity to use a strategy I promote AND gave me extra content for my workshop.
There’s always a better opportunity.
We can remind ourselves that we can move past bad news by asking ourselves this question: “What’s the better opportunity for us?”
What’s your better opportunity?
(Also, a note to the Universe: I’m good with practicing how to manage rejection. No more opportunities to manage rejection necessary, at least for the time being. Thank you!)
(Image by Prawny from Pixabay.)
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