Every friday, we’re fortunate enough to have one of the most quoted dating experts in the world – David Wygant as a guest writer of inspirational self help articles.

This week David writes about “Embracing Dating Rejection” and even if you’re not dating, there’s some great advice here.

The one that really struck home for me was the point about changing your expectations:

Change Your Expectations. One of the first and most important things to understand is that no matter what you do, not everybody is going to respond positively (and may not respond at all). Not everyone you smile at will smile back. What you have to realize is that just because somebody did not smile back at you, does not mean that you’re not an attractive person or that you made a mistake by smiling at that person. The only thing it means is that it did not work with that ONE person.

I’m one of those people that tend to read too much into things, and I remember when I was dating, the “expectations” I had really did a number on my self esteem when rejection happened.

Great stuff, thanks David!