Have you ever asked your boss for a raise, or a friend for a big favour, and been apologetic about your request? What happened? You got a refusal. What else could you get? If you were enthusiastic, sure of what you had asked for, taken his consent for granted, the result would have been favourable. People find it very hard to refuse someone who takes their consent for granted.

If you are planning to get something big, try this method; first make a strong mental picture of what you want. Figure out in detail. Write out what you want, and more or less how you are going to set about getting it. Follow the architect who draws the blueprint of a house in detail before it becomes a reality. Don’t bother about the likely setbacks and obstacles, tackle them when and if they come. Keep this slogan before you:

“They Can Conquer Who Believe They Can”

Once you set about getting what you want, don’t let anything stop you. Follow the example of a great person who said: “I’ve been up and down all my life. Lots of people said I was through; but I never thought much about it. I always was too busy to worry about my troubles”. Stop worrying about troubles, and learn to face them. “Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble”, says G.W.Lyon. Keep that in mind. You can will your way to success or failure, to victory or to defeat, to happiness or misery.

Life will pay any price you ask from it, only thing is don’t approach the ocean with a teaspoon!

A young boy sat on the bridge and watched the fish in the stream below. “I wish I could catch one of them”, he said to himself. A passerby, who heard him, stopped and said,

“My boy, if you really want to get your wish, stop wishing and start fishing”!