How rejection can work in your favor
October 1, 2009 by Juliet Chase
Filed under Importance of Motivation
I spent all of Wednesday afternoon feverishly putting together an application package for a call for artists for a new cancer center. And I spent the morning waiting anxiously for the email with the instructions! Normally this wouldn’t put me in a panic but I’d only just found out about this opportunity and the deadline was two days away. As I wrapped up the last of the bits and pieces I realized that there is no way I could have gotten it in on time if I hadn’t sent my best work out before (to no avail.) All those rejections meant that I had images already vetted (this version is slightly better than this one) and edited in Photoshop so that all I had to do was some resizing and printing.
I don’t know that the response will be more positive in this case, but I’m sure I gave it my best shot and I know that all that time I put into prior submissions wasn’t wasted after all. It can sure feel that way when the ‘No, thanks’ arrives or even worse, there is no answer at all. I’m coming to believe that there is no such thing as wasting time if you are following where your heart leads. Cross your fingers for me that my future lies in health-care art!
