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When everyone rejects your ideas:

Sometimes you find that everyone around is opposing you, that people are rejecting you, rejecting your ideas, putting you down or even questioning the possibility of your dreams.

What a hard moment that you're forced to face. You may even start to question your own abilities and dreams, the dreams you once believed in, the dreams you once fought for. You may get depressed, you may stop trying or even start to believe that you've been wrong all that time and give up.

The big test

I call this period the big test; it's the period when you start testing the strength of your beliefs, the period where you have to decide whether you really deserve to succeed or not, and whether people's opinions are right. It's the period where your decision may either add another crack to your self confidence, or awaken your challenging spirit. It's the period where you decide to hold on to your dreams for as strong as you can, or forget about them and give up on the whole deal.

You are not alone!!

Don’t think that you are the only person who's had to face such a situation; many people have been there and unfortunately many of them fooled. They thought the problem was with them and ended up giving up on their dreams. Only a few continued to the end, and those few discovered that it was the right decision. The following are examples of some of those few:

• Japanese electronic products were perceived by the whole world as low quality products. Here in Egypt we used to say things like: “I wasn’t surprised to find it faulty; it's Japanese”. Now let's have a look at the Japanese products and see what they have achieved.
• Mary Higgins was rejected for more than 30 times before she published her first story, one that later sold millions of copies.
• John Creasy's writings were rejected more than 700 times before he sold 300 stories!!
• Dr Suess’s writings were rejected more than twenty times before his books' profits reached 100 million.
• Abraham Lincoln failed to start his own business. Four years later his wife died. One year later, he had a breakdown and had to stay in bed for six months. A few years after, he was defeated at the congress elections, and was defeated yet again three years later. Seven years later he was defeated at the senate elections, and again three years later. Finally, two years later he won the elections and became the president of the united states.

It's all about believing:

What’s the point of all this? The only point is that those people believed in themselves, anyone of them could have thought that they didn’t deserve success and then gave up midway. But if that had happened, their names wouldn't have ended up in this article.

What about you? What if you are the next John Creasy or even the next Lincoln; why give up upon being rejected once or twice?
You must build your own ideas of yourself, your work and your skills, so that when people reject you (when the time of the big test comes), you will continue moving on. Know that gold is always buried under the ground with people stepping on this ground and not caring to look for it. But, when someone finds it by coincidence, they may kill each other to get it or even start a war for it. Trust your abilities, be persistent; life only remembers the strong.

Did that help?

No, the problem is that I don’t have confidence in my abilities.

No, many people have told me before that I am no good. I'm starting to believe I should have listened to them

Ok, but still, they may have rejected it because it was not that good

Ok, but why am still feeling bad?

No, I am depressed

Yes, I feel good now

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