Thang Nguyen 555

The Beach Boys turned it down. So Terry Jacks went ahead and sang it himself. It turned out to be a hit back then.

Sometimes, fate has it for us to experience those “rejects”.

In sales, we all know rejection comes with the job.

Walk the pavement until it’s blue in the face and faint in the heart.

This season of Celebration, we still hear about shooting in Jersey, in Pensacola, and Impeachment proceeding in the Nation’s Capital.

Where is the refrain “We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the Sun”?

Greta is TIME’s Person of the Year.

Let’s not get side-tracked. It’s a testimony to someone who sat alone with a sign on “Friday for Future” until someone decided to join her. At her age, she should have stuck with Girl Scout cookies.

Instead, Greta makes sure that future Girl Scouts cookies remain to be sold for years to come.

Greta “saw the system”.

Talking about taking rejection.

About sticking it out (in this case, cause-related mission).

Terry Jacks believed in his piece (which he surely had put his heart and soul into it, with some skin in the game: skinned our hearts and skinned our knees). So innocent, so spontaneous: “pretty girls are everywhere…”

Greta looks angry and apprehensive, for a right reason: her generation and hopefully the generation after that, won’t get to enjoy “seasons in the sun”, if “pollution are everywhere” ..

So she went ahead and did it herself. Like any leader who needs to see things through: roll up your sleeves.

In life, rejections are good. It means you are introducing something new, something out-of-the-ordinary.

You are on the cusp of change. It would be stagnating if not for all the revolutions in computing and medicine which helped us arrive at today.

Church hymnals can be stacked behind the pew for next Sunday. But something cannot wait, like Fridays for Future, like Seasons in the Sun.

Gotta get out there, look around and take a deep breath before making that sales call, launching a product (anticipating rejections) and bringing about change.

If the Beach Boys of the world reject your offer, go ahead and do it yourself.