What you don't ask for...

You either don't get it. Or you leave it to chance.

We can create the conditions to get what we need or want.

And a crucial part of it is making the ask.

“Many years ago, the Detroit newspapers carried a feature story about a monstrous insurance policy purchased by Henry Ford. A close friend of Mr. Ford who was in the insurance business was considerably upset and asked him why on earth he had not bought the policy from him. Mr. Ford’s answer is a lesson to everybody who sells anything to anybody at any time under any circumstances—and that’s all of us! He said, “You didn’t ask me.”

Zig Ziglar, Ziglar on Selling