Rejecting Rejection

Patty and I were talking this morning to a group of people about how when we started Chicken Soup for the Soul, we got rejected by 144 publishers. And yes, it was disappointing, but we kept on going because we knew in our heart of hearts that this was meant to be. And we finally got a little publisher out of Florida called Health Communications, which wasn't a big publisher in New York like Harper Collins or, you know, Doubleday or something. But because it was such a small publisher, we were one of the few books they came out with every year, and we got a lot more attention, a lot more support. As Patty mentioned this morning, it was like it was almost our publisher. And all that delay, if you will, actually was to our advantage. And so trust the process as it unfolds, but keep tipping the next obvious step and you'll start to see that this kind of begins to balance out, and you'll be taking one step professionally, another step spiritually, and it will all integrate together.