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Downside Up: Transform Rejection into Your Golden Opportunity [Book Review]

by Tracey Mitchell (Thomas Nelson, 2013)

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Downside Up: Transform Rejection into Your Golden Opportunity
 
Downside Up: Transform Rejection into Your Golden Opportunity [Book Review] (Thomas Nelson, 2013)

When I first picked up this book, I assumed it would be a lighthearted look at rejection. (Though, I’m not sure how.) It wasn’t.

Instead, Downside Up connected with the ugly reality we face in relationships. In some way, rejection has cut us all—leaving scars of all sizes—and some of us still bleed every day in our work, marriages, friends, churches, and even written correspondence.

Sometimes others’ rejection of us is intentional, but occasionally, it also represents our own inflated sensitivity. Regardless, the rejection we feel is real. By the way, I guess I could feel rejected as a man that the book seems to address women primarily (as does the promo video above), but there’s a lot here for men too.

Tracey Mitchell’s book does more than examine rejection from these various avenues of entry. Each chapter concludes with elements that I found the most helpful parts of the book:

  • Chapter Principles—if you read nothing but these, you’d get a good, general sense of the chapter’s contents as well as some great takeaways for application and renewing the mind against the raw feelings that rejection often brings. Super, super stuff here. These little nuggets are the best part of the book.
  • Words of Wisdom—offers a simple Bible verse that relates to the chapter’s theme. Good for memorization and even better for meditation.
  • Power Quote—a quote from various individuals that says in a few words something worth thinking about.
  • Plan of Action—offers a direct application to do what the book’s title says we should do with rejection: turn it upside-down.

My opinion was turned upside down after I read Downside Up.

If rejection is something that’s eating you, you’ll find encouragement here.

Tell me what you think: How do you deal with rejection? To leave a comment, just click here.

By the way, I received this book from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com® book review bloggers program. The review is my honest opinion. The FTC requires I tell you. See 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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