{"id":1295,"date":"2019-08-05T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:18:16","slug":"rejection-challenge-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/05\/rejection-challenge-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection Challenge 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2018 I started the Rejection Challenge. Focusing on collecting rejections helped me both overcome a fear of receiving them AND stopped me self-rejecting as much&#8211;after all, what did I have to lose? Why self-reject when I could let the market reject me and collect a sweet, sweet point towards my goal? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I aimed to get 100 in a year as is the standard challenge and instead collected <em>100 in eight months<\/em>, because, you know, some goals are made to be <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FUCKING CRUSHED.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing to do but start counting again again on September 1st (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the start of the FFY (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/2019\/03\/05\/feistner-fiscal-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">the start of the FFY<\/a>) upping the goal to 150 because, you know, reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WELL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looks like I might need to find a new goal for the next FFY because this goal? Is also<br><br><strong>FUCKING CRUSHED.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a691df8eeeba&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a691df8eeeba\" class=\"wp-block-image wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68691440_2326578310790781_5462104476636676096_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68691440_2326578310790781_5462104476636676096_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/68691440_2326578310790781_5462104476636676096_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption>My bullet journal layout for rejections collected September 1, 2018 to August 5, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I AM THE BEST AT LOSING<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitting a Rejection Challenge milestone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,111,9,107],"tags":[62,77,209,97],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-submissions-rejections","category-writing","category-year-in-review","tag-rejectionchallenge","tag-bulletjournal","tag-crushing-it","tag-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}