Yesterday’s email was all about asking.

Asking is a powerful tool.  It opens doors that appear to be closed.  It challenges the status quo and creates opportunities where there didn’t seem to be any.  And it makes your desires known, which often leads to unexpected support, resources and connections.

It’s an almost guaranteed way to drive your life in the direction you want.

Which naturally prompts the question:

How do we ask for what we want to increase the chances of getting it?

As it happens, I’ve been reading a book all about this.

This book is an old school classic.  It’s written by two #1 New York Times best-selling authors and arguably two 20^th Century legends of the self-help genre.

Every page in this book has a nugget or gem of gold tucked away, all about how to ask for what you want.

The book reveals the 5 reasons we don’t ask for whatever it is we’d like to ask for, the 7 characteristics shared by people who DO ask for what they want, how to adapt your approach to asking in different settings (e.g. at home vs at work) and tonnes more.

Most compelling of all, the book also sets out 8 ways to ask for what you want in order to increase the chances of you getting it.

As it turns out, I used 6 of these 8 methods in my email yesterday when I asked this question:

If you could click your fingers and one thing in your life would be different, what would that be? 

(if you go back over my email, you might be able to pick these methods out)

Today I’m using a 7^th method from the book.

This 7^th method?

When you’re asking for something you want, ask more than once.

This is why I’m asking you the same question for a second day on the trot:

If you could click your fingers and one thing in your life would be different, what would that be? 

It might be a grand, lofty ambition like seeing £10million in your coffers.  It might be a more personal goal like owning a successful business or side hustle.  Or it could be a waving goodbye to a daily frustration, like finding more energy each day.

Whatever it is, if you reply with your very own answer to this question, I’ll reply back.

In my reply, I’ll give you the name of this self-help classic.  Plus I'll send you the 8 methods this book suggests for making effective asks.  

And if you want, you can give these methods a try.

That’s all for today.

 - Tom