It’s A Great Day For A Rejection!
My fingers are making tens of tiny mistakes on the keyboard as I craft this article.
How come?
I’ve just had the greatest lunch ever at the famous Musso & Franks Grill on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. And along with the lunch, we ordered a Raymond Burr Cabernet, 1999 vintage.
So, the fingers aren’t too dexterous, but no matter, the mind and spirit are quite well.
The sky is blue, snow can be seen in the distant winter mountains, and I trekked two miles and back to retrieve my Porsche from the shop. So, I feel tip-top, in shape, and living large.
Anyway, it’s the perfect situation in which to receive a rejection, which is what I just got, via email, from yet another book editor.
I wonder what he’s doing, right now, in my old hometown, where it’s 25 degrees and cloudy and miserable.
There he is in his cubicle, fretting about whether he’ll fit into the new corporate superstructure, after his indie company was swallowed whole, by a rapacious predator.
Maybe he’s worried that he’ll have to go back to school and get another degree, or tap into his trust fund, which he promised never to do, unless a dire emergency came up.
And whatever happened to that novel that he thought he’d get published one day? Still, it’s there in his home office garret, gathering dust, wearing the stains of disappointed tears.
Across from me at lunch was a famous actor, one of my favorites, sweetly romancing a girl a third his age, but in the serene setting in which we were blissfully secured, nothing else mattered; or matters still, in the afterglow of what we know to be our delicious place in this universe.
All is well, dear writers, and may all of your rejections be as blissful as this one!
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He holds the rank of Shodan, 1st Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.
