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There is a price for not asking.

“A number of years back the University of Chicago received a million dollar grant from Mrs. Fields of the Marshall Fields Department Store fame and fortune. When the administration at Northwestern University read the headline in the newspaper, the people at Northwestern were shocked, How could this be?

Mrs. Fields lived in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern was in Evanston, Illinois. She had been a supporter in the past. Why hadn’t she donated the money to Northwestern? Why had she given the money to the University of Chicago instead?

When the university officials called Mrs. Fields to discover why she had given the money to the University of Chicago rather than them, she replied, The people at the University of Chicago asked. You didn’t.”  ~ As told by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen in The Aladdin
Factor, Berkley Publishing 1995

Are you afraid to ask for what you want? Do you resist asking others for help? Me too.

Yet all we need do is look around to see how much has been written about the power of asking. So let’s take a leap of faith this week. Let’s throw caution to the wind and ask for something we really want. Let’s ask someone for help.

Ask and it is given. For this is the only way that we can truly receive.

In appreciation to you, my friend and partner in expansion!

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