For the month of February, we’ll be looking at old sayings, to see if it still passes the sniff test, and how we could use it in our lives.

This week: “Where one door shuts, another opens.’ It means that  if one thing you do, fails, you’ll find yourself with another opportunity. It’s meant to encourage someone to keep trying after they’ve been rejected or failed. 

It was the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell who wrote this. The full quote is “When one door closes, another one opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” 

When we are faced with disappointment like this, it’s helpful to lean on what Bell said, when one door closes, another opens. Put another way - rejection is redirection.

Whether you see it now or later, the closed door is allowing other doors to open for you. Believe that there is more out there for you, something far better than you could have ever imagined.

Listen to this episode to learn more!

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