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06 MUSCAT DAILY MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009

Omani adventurer to
release documentary
A MuscAt DAily cOluMNist

MIND NUTRITION
Kevin Abdulrahman

‘Nabs’ will launch a film on his trek to the North Pole at the Dubai International Film Festival
Kevin Abdulrahman is an in-demand leadership development and performance acceleration
speaker and trainer

let me start off by giving you a personal exam-
ple of being rejected. i must have approached
over 100 publishers for my first book Winning
the Game Of life. i had enjoyed an array of re-
jections. there were folks who never replied,
some who kindly rejected it and then there
were those who weren’t so kind about it. But
being a person with a Winning Mind, i would
rather fail moving forward than fail by simply
standing still. so i kept on pushing past all the
rejections until my book got to the hands of a
much known publicist in the states who said,
“Hang on a second, you’ve got something
here”, and within days we had a publishing deal
on the table.
As i travel the world training individuals and
organisations, i come across
some immensely talented peo-
ple in different fields. their tal-
DEALING WITH
ent is however buried under the REJECTION
pile of rejections they have re-
ceived and sadly they have taken it personally.
in every challenging situation where rejec-
tions are offered left, right and centre, the first
exit door that appears is the one that reads,
“Give up now. save yourself further headaches
and heart burn”. the difference between those
succeeding and the ones who give up is one:
their ability to deal with rejection. the majority
of people take rejection personally whilst win-
ners know that rejection is part of the process.
Just because a few people don’t share your
views about something, doesn’t mean that your
idea has no value. All it takes is for one person
to see it, and that person is you. there are
countless examples of people who started off
being the only ones who visualised the power
of the skills, abilities, products or services they
had. it took them several rejections before they
You can mail him on kevin.abdulrahman@apexstuff.com
had a breakthrough. Here is the key though,
they persevered past all the rejection and kept
pushing forward without taking it to heart.
if we were all to take rejection to heart then
we wouldn’t have the pleasure of having a com-
puter on every desk, we would still be riding
horses instead of cars, we wouldn’t have the
pleasure of emails, the Harry Potter franchise
wouldn’t be around, Will smith wouldn’t be one
of the highest paying actors of his time, and
certainly we wouldn’t have many of the things
we take for granted that were initially laughed
at and blatantly rejected in their infancy.
Always remember that what is being re-
jected is your idea or your offering, not you. Re-
jection stems from other people’s limitations,
beliefs, fears and different
perspective on things. think
of a time when you are in a
plane and the steward or
stewardess do their rounds
offering tea or coffee. We have all at some
stage declined their offer and it would be fair
to say that they face numerous rejections. A visitor views a photograph at the exhibition
However i don’t believe that they take it
personally. they understand that their offer Our Correspondent film will then be screened in for school students,” he added. warm up in those weather con-
of tea and coffee is what is being rejected, Muscat Oman. “A VIP screening event It is hoped that the photo ex- ditions,” said Riyadh al Busaidi,
nothing more. hibition, followed by the docu- Nabs' father.
those with A Winning Mind always weigh Omani adventurer Nabil 'Nabs' al mentary, is hoped to inspire Nabs explained that most of
up the pain and ask themselves, “What would Busaidi will be releasing a people. It will also help people the coverage to date had been in
feel worst, knowing they never gave it their documentary of his walk to the understand the difficulty of com- English, and they hoped to reach
best because they got affected by rejection? Or magnetic North Pole. This pleting such a trek. “The weather a bigger audience by putting the
doing whatever, however long it takes to reach was announced at a photo conditions were -80 Celsius, and commentary on the photographs
their goal?’ exhibition of his adventure at it was not easy for us to accept in Arabic as well as in English. He
For A Winning Mind, there is only one an- the Muscat City Centre, which him doing it, as his family, but we plans to make trips to schools
swer. began yesterday. still supported him. At that time within Oman with the pictures to
Don’t take rejection to heart and follow your “A film documentary funded of year, a lot of polar bears were inspire students to aim higher.
dreams. by Sabco will be coming out in coming out of hibernation. There “He's the first Arab to reach
Have a Winning Week. December,” said Nabs. It will be was also a risk of getting wet and the North Pole and in fact the
launched at the Dubai Interna- stepping on thin ice, as they were first Omani, so this is very impor-
tional Film Festival, which will be for ministers will be held and I crossing terrain close to the tant,” said Ross Cormack, CEO of
held from December 9-16. The hope to later have screenings sea. It is extremely difficult to Nawras.

Air India gets Airbus A319

Our Correspondent
Muscat with various amenities, which will

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enhance comfort and passenger
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muscatdaily@apexstuff.com heating up with Air India intro-

ducing Airbus A319 aircraft on
the Muscat-Mumbai–Ahmed-
abad sector after Oman Air's
much hyped fleet expansion.
The Airbus A319 is equipped
country manager – Oman, Air
India.
The plane has a capacity of
122 seats in a two class configu-
ration of eight executive and 114
economy class seats.

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