💬 What's one of your memorable rejections?
Big or small, recent or ancient: Share in the comments so we can make a fresh batch of 'doh community sweet-and-sour lemonade 🍋🍋🍋
I love hearing from you, and crowd-sourcing wisdom for fellow business owners to take solace in. Scroll down for the full prompt on a memorable rejection, and how it might have been a divine redirect.
This is our second discussion post; check out the first one here:
💬 What's one of your divine business disasters?
Since the day I launched this Substack, I’ve been eagerly counting down to our first official call for reader submissions. I know you’ve got your own divine disaster diaries hiding up your business sleeves, and now is your chance to air them out! Let’s roll them in collective
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Hopefully that gives you an extra dash of courage for sharing your story—as it does for me—knowing they aren’t Google searchable or directly out in public view.
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Catch up on last week’s related posts related to today’s prompt if you haven’t already:
👎 Mutually Assured Rejection, Part One
It’s March 2021, and we all have chronic Zoom fatigue. But something about this particular four-square amalgamation of afternoon faces is so dreadful, so draining, so soporific, that I feel my life force leaving my body even while I strain to sustain my song-and-dance for the participants.
👎 Mutually Assured Rejection, Part Two
Read Part One here first, if you haven’t already: On March 1, 2021, my literary agent sent the proposal for what was then called Delightfully Tiny Teams to The Publisher, after two months of editing and feedback. “Eee!” I wrote in my journal that day. “So curious how this will all unfold . . . got to stay open, smart, and surrendered. Not sure what amount of money is worth the added complexity, coordination, and reduced freedom — but I’d be proud to do a deal.”