How To Recover From Rejection And Build Strong Resilience

by Carmel O' Reilly

Overview

Welcome to my book about how to recover from rejection and build strong resilience throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what's inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.

WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.

Rejection Recovery Resilience

The world has always been a challenging place, and perhaps now more than ever, as people try to cope with fast paced and unpredictable change. Times of uncertainty bring about difficult times, and oftentimes limited resources, leading to rejections.

Resilience is the quality that will help you survive. Building your resilience involves developing and maintaining habits of thinking and doing that help you not just survive in difficult times, but to come through the adversity knowing yourself better, and being wiser and more focussed on what is most important to you.

This gives you the ability to recover, to bounce back from tough times and to display tenacity.

In this book I tell five stories:

1. It Took Ten Years to Receive the Critics' Award for Most Promising Newcomer: Denise's story of how having taken ten years to be recognised for her talent, she had a further year without work before she and her work were fully appreciated.

2. "Actors Don't Take Criticism Very Well Do They" and Sir Anthony Sher's Story–"Don't Give Up Your Day Job": Carmel's story of how the whole world are critics when it comes to actors.

3. Rejected for His Height: Vince Vaughan's story of how he was rejected for his height, and how he had to find a way of using it, so he wouldn't be defined by it.

4. Feedback–the Good, theBad and the Downright Ugly: Scott Budnick and Sir Anthony Sher's stories of how feedback can knock you down or build you up. How it has the power to recon- struct or destroy your WorkLife at different stages.

5. Build It and They Will Come, Do a Great Job Building It and They'll Stand in Line to Get In: Marco's story of how he used an experience of being rejected to move forward in his WorkLife, to create a new business success story.

I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:

Watch the Watcher Assignment
This assignment is to help you to develop your power of observation to be attuned to what is going on in the moment, to allow you to react accordingly.

Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you to reframe negative feedback you give yourself, by accepting the reality of the truth, and using this to move forward.

Develop a Practice of Insightful Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you to learn from rejection, and to work to understand what you can do differently next time.

Can You Improve? Assignment
This assignment is to help you to consider if you can or cannot improve your offering.

Making Decisions in the Best Possible Way Assignment
This assignment is to help you to adopt a three-step approach to making the best decisions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186766025
Publisher:	Carmel O' Reilly
Publication date:	02/16/2023
Series:	School of WorkLife , #19
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	513 KB

About the Author

Carmel O’ Reilly is the founder of School of WorkLife. She was born and grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Shoreditch, London.

Her work and subsequently her first book, Your WorkLife Your Way, and its companion workbook, focus on helping people live their best WorkLives by managing their learning, development and growth, through effective self-feedback, insightful questions and the ability to shape and tell their unique story. 

Her School of WorkLife book series tells WorkLife stories of the obstacles, failures, and successes people encountered in their WorkLife. Each book includes the exercises that helped navigate these situations, which are presented as assignments for readers to work through and adapt to their challenging WorkLife situations.

Her books are designed to help you gain insight and inspiration in your chosen area of WorkLife, and then support you in achieving what is important to you in your WorkLife learning, development and growth. You will learn to take ownership of your strengths and potential, as well as assessing your challenges to determine where you are stuck, to then uncover solutions to move forward.

Her new book, WorkLife Book Club Volume One takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, as the members share culinary experiences, while discussing WorkLife struggles and successes through the wisdom found in the books they read.

Her WorkLife Book Club Case Studies embrace Learning Through Reading and applying those lessons to real-life situations. The series is a collection of stories inspired by real WorkLife struggles and successes and show how the wisdom found in the books they read helped the protagonists in the stories navigate through their challenging situation. 

The stories are presented as case studies for group discussion. The case and the recommended book are the required reading for each book club meeting and help to frame the subsequent discussion. 

The Art of WorkLife Storytelling is a series of e-books designed to help you find, develop and tell the right story at the right time in all WorkLife situations – in day-to-day communication: WorkLife and feedback conversations, presentations, talks, and negotiations, at interviews, and when socialising and networking in building and maintaining good relationships. You will learn to tell the stories that express who you are in an interesting and engaging way.