Professor: “Where do you want to go to graduate school?”
Student: “I’m applying to Rutgers.”
Professor: “No, I asked you where do you want to go to grad school?”
Student: “Well, to tell you the truth, I really want to go to Teachers College, Columbia University.”
Professor: “So why don’t you apply there?”
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QUESTION: How do you get what you really want?
ANSWER: You have to ask for it.
Now suppose you really want to go to Teachers College, but you don’t apply. The good news is that Teacher College will never reject you. The bad news is that something much worse will happen –
YOU WILL BE REJECTING YOURSELF!
How often do you reject yourself? You were going to audition for that play, but you knew you
wouldn’t get cast. You were going to try out for that team, but you knew that you
wouldn’t make it. You were going to submit your poems, but you knew you
wouldn’t get published.
If you’re going to get rejected, at least get rejected by a qualified person. Get rejected by the admissions office. Get rejected by the director. Get rejected by the coach. Get rejected by the editor.
DON’T REJECT YOURSELF!
You’ve been planning on asking that person out, but you never did because you were afraid of getting rejected. So you never asked that person out. What a tragedy!
It is upsetting when you get rejected. It is tragic when you reject yourself.
So you want to go to medical school . . . so you want to work for the F.B.I. . . . so you might even want to get on the TV show “The Apprentice” . . . how do you do it?
ASK. APPLY. AND DON’T REJECT YOURSELF.
How do you get what you really want? YOU HAVE TO ASK FOR IT!
Call Success Hotline today (973-743-4690),
Rob Gilbert
