Postcards: A short-short story

Have You Long Been Unwanted? Toward improvement and self-acceptance

Have you spent much of your life unwanted, personally and professionally? You’ve probably spent much time trying to figure out why.

So, after just a few questions that might help to unearth any new ideas you might want to try, most of my Psychology Today article today focuses on how, moving forward, to improve the situation and to come to deserved self-acceptance.

Ignored: When the world treats you as irrelevant

Does any of this sound familiar?

• You contact someone and don’t get a response.
• People seem to look through you, as though you don’t exist.
• At work or in looking for work, you are ignored or taken for granted.

Being ignored is painful. As Elie Wiesel wrote, "The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference."

My Psychology Today article today offers suggestions on how to deal.

Ignored or Rejected? Options for the ghosted and roasted

You’ve been ignored or rejected a lot.
It’s hard to go through life feeling that way. As usual, there are no magic pills but maybe one or more of the ideas in my PsychologyToday.com article today will help.

You're Rejected and Don't Know Why

You email a request. Silence.

You ask someone out. The response? An unhelpful, “I don’t think we’re a good fit.”

You’re fired or your job application is rejected. You ask why and all you get is a vague answer like, “We decided to go in a different direction.”

And some people go through life largely rejected and rarely get any useful feedback as to why.

What to do?

You have no choice but to self-assess, and that may be for the best.

My PsychologyToday.com article today asks you some questions to help with that self-assessment.

A Workover: A Long-Term Unemployed Person Comes Close to His Dream Job

A caller to my show has been looking for a job for a long time, without success. Finally, he got past three interviews for his dream job and didn't get it. As bad, they wouldn't even tell him why. The transcript of our exchange is my PsychologyToday.com article today.

The Psychology of the Artistic Lessons on art, leadership, and rejection.

For my PsychologyToday.com article today, I interviewed symphony orchestra conductor, David Ramadanoff. He offers lessons on art, leadership, and rejection. HERE is the link.