It dawned on me a while ago that the reason why I talk so much about relationships, the workplace and other kinds of social things is because I am very curious about why people interact with each other the way they do, and I personally want to find ways of improving our interactions. Probably the biggest way to do it, outside of reprogramming everyone through the media, is through customer service.
I came back a while ago from a small trip to Crystal Palace, which was where I used to work over a year ago. I had stopped near Tulse Hill to pick some items up from a fellow Freecycler (by the way, thank you again), and eventually decided to pay Gipsy Hill a little visit.
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Today let’s be positive and talk about overcoming rejection.
Of course, there’s nothing positive about rejection itself: no matter how it’s done and who it involves, rejection is rejection. The strange thing is that different people get either more resistant or more sensitive to it, the more it happens. But whatever happens for you, it doesn’t have to mean the end.
The following is an extract from an old version of a book I’ve been writing, which has been edited slightly to apply to both men and women. (Buying said book when it’s published is highly recommended. 
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Yes folks, the bearer of positivity and all things wonderful has yet another rant. But there is a purpose behind this particular rant: it’s in anticipation of the upcoming V Day – my least favourite day of the year, for reasons that should be obvious by now. If you’re going to be single by next Sunday, my thoughts are with you.
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At the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar last year, I took what was at the time a rather suicidal plunge into the final activity: breaking an arrow using only your neck. (It’s not quite as scary as it sounds.)
The idea of the exercise was to use the arrow as a metaphor for a held “limiting belief” – when the arrow was broken, the limiting belief would be shattered. Each person who took part wrote down their limiting belief on the arrow before starting.
I hinted at this exercise in my Insight #3, where I mentioned the lesson of hesitation being painful; that one has to take the chance and do something before it’s too late. The key to the arrow-breaking exercise was to move quickly into the arrow, so that the person would not feel pain in their neck.
I didn’t die from the exercise, and although I moved slowly and hesitantly into the arrow, I managed to break it into two pieces and one splinter. What a rush.
But while others’ arrows splintered into several pieces, when I examined the pieces of my arrow, the words of the limiting belief I’d written on it had remained intact.
Those words were:
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
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Well folks, in a few hours we will be leaving behind the mayhem of 2009, and embarking on the exciting yet uncertain adventure in 2010. Like 1990 before it, it marks the beginning of a new decade, which makes things even more uncertain. (I just hope to God that they don’t give this decade an equally shit name as “the noughties”.)
For me, as you’ve probably read in my posts, 2009 was a very telling year.
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