Be grateful for some of the no’s you got. A few of them saved you from things you couldn’t see yet.

Refusals look like obstacles from the inside and often turn out to be protection. You cannot see where the yes would have led, so the no gets filed as a loss while the outcome you avoided never appears on any list. Some doors that closed kept you from things you had no way of judging at the time. That does not make every refusal correct, only some of them.

Look back over the last year or two and find one you can now see differently. A job, a plan, a person. It is worth doing while you are in the middle of a fresh disappointment.