13th May 2025
The idiom “crying baby gets the milk” holds true in all aspects of life.
There’s a story about Apple founder Steve Jobs that I love:
When he was 12 years old, he cold-called Bill Hewlett, co-founder of the pioneering technology company Hewlett Packard to request spare computer parts for an electronics project he was working on.
Surprised by the request, Hewlett not only sent the parts, he also offered him a summer internship.
That opportunity further accelerated the young Jobs’ excitement for technology & entrepreneurship & we all know what came from that.
Reflecting on the story, Steve Jobs later said the following:
“Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I‘ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help & when people ask me, I try to be as responsive, to pay that debt of gratitude back.
Most people never pick up the phone and call.
Most people never ask and that’s what separates the people who get things done from the people who just dream about them.”
This prompts a question I often return to whenever I’m feeling stuck:
What would I ask for if I wasn’t afraid of hearing no?
Many of life’s doors remain closed to us, not because we knocked & were rejected, but because we never knocked at all.
Let’s remember one
simple truth: ‘Closed mouths don’t get fed.’
If there is something you’re missing in your life right now—an opportunity, a relationship, a raise, a mentor, an inflection point, a better deal; it most likely will not be because you’re unqualified or unworthy of it, but simply because you haven’t asked for it.
If you want something & you’ve done the work to deserve it, go ask for it.
The worst case? You will be told no & you will be right back in the same place.
The best case? Everything changes.
I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives simply because they’re afraid to ask for the thing they want & deserve.
Stop waiting for good things to happen. Good things don’t come to those who wait.
Good things come to those who have the courage to ask – Those who confront their fear of rejection. Those who embrace it as the cost of entry.
The life you want is on the other side of the fear you’re avoiding.
So, I’ll ask again:
What would you ask for if you weren’t afraid of hearing no?
Now, do the work, go ask for it & stay blessed forever.