Day 7 - ask myself over to the houses of those I love: As you can tell from my last post, I suffered a bit of burnout with my rejection therapy, so today I decided to take it easy and do something that was a little more private, yet necessary all the same. At times I avoid asking to go over to someone else's house because I cannot currently return the favor, so I decided to ask a couple of family members if I could come over to spend time with them. I literally asked with these exact words, "I should invite myself over to your house someone soon." Lessons learned: even though I sometimes fear rejection, I was met with positive responses to my requests. I have to remember that I am loved more than I know, more than I sometimes extend in return, and always more than I deserve. Day 8 - a series of mini rejection projects: Today I decided to let the gears start moving again by participating in a series of rejecting rejection attempts, and start again tomorrow with the bigger projects. For this reason, I took back the palms to church and asked the priest if they would recycle them (I didn't know this was a "thing"), talked to someone in church to whom it took courage to reach out, and asked the Starbuck's inside the grocery store where I was doing our shopping if they were going to make any samples of the cherry mocha anytime soon. Lessons learned: the priest let me know that they burn old palms to use in upcoming Palm Sunday masses, the person to whom I reached out to in church was kind to me and taught me that it was the right thing to do, and the Dillon's employee made a sample just for me without asking anything in return! Day 9 - read someone else's child a story: I thought that it would be a fun and creative way to spend time with children by offering to read them their favorite story, so I went to the local Barnes and Noble and was approved to host a story hour, so "go"...the only thing is that I went a little late and only talked to a couple of adorable children who were still around, although their father was trying to get them to go to eat. I talked to the manager about coming back a different day a little earlier, and in the meantime read lots of inspiring children's stories with good messages! Lessons learned: go early, stay late, and be ready for anything. All in all, these three days were a success at rejecting rejection. I love learning that you really can do anything you put your mind to, and all in all, you will get a lot more "yes'es" than "no's" and a lot more "yes'es" than you expect!
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Valerie Angel
2/12/2018 09:50:29 pm
Just letting you know that I am still listening... well reading.
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Valerie Ellis
2/13/2018 09:42:00 am
Hi Vee,
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