Drew Rozell, Ph.D.

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On Hiking (Part 1)

August 23, 2013 drewrozell Leave a Comment

Gothics Mountain, NY
Gothics Mountain, NY

The best way to get to the top of the mountain is not to think about the top of the mountain.

Don’t measure how far you’ve gone. Don’t measure how far you have to go.

Don’t talk about what hurts. Don’t complain about the conditions of the trail.

Just keep taking steps forward. Upward.

Rest when you want to rest. It ain’t a race.

The mountaintop is always farther than you think, so focusing on reaching the top is usually accompanied by the disappointment of false summits.

In fact, it doesn’t really matter if you make it or not. (That’s the easiest way to be about it.)

 

Sure, the view is lovely from the top. It’s a very cool place to be.

But it’s fleeting. You’re not staying anyway.

And you still have to get down… it’s often just as challenging, but when you’re so focused on the top of the mountain, this is easily forgotten.

 

There’s always another mountain to climb, anyway.

There is no “done.”

So quit keeping score. Rushing is pointless. Just take in the moments.

And see where you end up.

 

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Choose Yourself

February 21, 2013 drewrozell Leave a Comment

Lemmy the cat (aka Grey One)
Lemmy the cat (aka Grey One)

Who doesn’t want to be chosen?

I did.

After all, it wasn’t like there were any other options.

If I was to succeed (and I always had an internal drive to be successful), you had to be chosen…

 

In my experience…

 

I had to be chosen by the right college. (Nope)

I had to be chosen by the right graduate school. (12th time is the charm, right?)

I had to be chosen for the right job. (Never happened)

I had to be chosen for the TV show that would make me a household name. (They chose someone else)

 

Someday I would get the magic call. Someday I would get tapped on the shoulder. Someday the one with the power would choose ME.

Despite never being chosen in the way I really hoped, I clung to this strategy as THE WAY to get what I wanted.

I carried this belief with me when it was time to create a book (a long time desire of mine).

From my perspective, it was time to climb Mt. Prove Myself once again.

And I am strong. I am stubborn. I can Prove Myself in a pinch.

So the process began.

 

I was chosen by an agent.

He did his job and got me into an editor’s office at a major publishing house in New York City.

I floated to my appointment that day. I arrived early and sat in a park, watching nannies play with children. I walked slowly to my destination, the iconic Flatiron building, not wanting to work up a sweat.

I got buzzed in a couple times to meet the woman, The Editor, who would hold my fate in her hands like a lump of  dough.

Would she turn me into a pizza? Pleeeeaassse?

 

Excited, I shook her hand and introduced myself. In just a minute or two, I would dazzle her, she’d chose me, and my dream would come true.

When I sat down, it was clear she had no idea who I was or why I was here. She looked frazzled. Disorganized. A tad sloppy.

She thumbed through my proposal and seemed to remember some aspects of it she liked enough to grant me this private meeting with her. Half interested, she asked me a few questions and I answered with the eagerness of a puppy.

 

Choose me.

Choose me!

You won’t regret it, I promise!

I am soooo close!

Choose ME!

 

I left feeling happy.

I’d done everything right. I believed in myself and what I had to offer. I think she even liked me by the end of the meeting.

In the end, she did not choose me. Something about the marketing department putting the kibosh on things. Blah blah blah.

 

Another crushing rejection. Just like I was when the colleges told me no. And the grad schools. And the job at the liberal arts colleges.

If I couldn’t get into her Club, I figured I could just be persistent… I would not quit until someone chose me!

Someone would have me, for sure… Plenty of heartwarming stories about authors being rejected, right? (J.K. Rowling, anyone?)

 

But I’d crossed some threshold.

I was already quite successful on my own terms. Why was I trying to convince some stranger (who seemed rather exhausted with her own life) to choose me when I could simply choose myself?

 

Somewhere in there, I decided to cross Mt Prove Myself of my list of destinations in favor of Choose Myself Lane.

Never missed it.

 

P.S. My book’s been out for two years and this will be its bestselling month ever.

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The Importance of Mornings

December 10, 2011 drewrozell Leave a Comment

Sunrise in December from VCL HQ.

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy…is to set our own conditions to the events of each day.

To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson got it right once again…

Creating your life, a day at a time (especially starting with the morning!) is the focus of The Very Cool Day Program.

Now on sale (along with most everything else) in the Very Cool Life store!

Get 25% off through Sunday, December 11, 2011, midnight.

Visit the store!

Oh, what’s that?

You want more?

Now you can get a digital copy of my entire book, The Very Cool Life Code, free.

(I used to offer just the first 4 chapters, but I figured, “what the hell… let’s get nuts here…”)

After all, I want you to read it.

I want you to see what I have to offer.

So check it out…

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Better yet, share this with a friend…

 

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