ASK!!!

A young man had a flat tire somewhere
out in the countryside.

He opened his trunk and looked for his
jack... but it wasn't there.

"Hum, now what do I do," he thought.

Since he was stranded on a small
country road on a hot summer day, he
doubted anyone would drive by to help.
Seeing the spire of a church in the
distance, he decided to walk to the
nearest village and borrow a jack. It
was a long way, and the day was very
hot. On the way he thought, "I hope
someone in that town has a jack they can
lend me."

He walked some more, sweating
profusely, and then thought, "I know
what the people around here are like.
They don't take kindly to strangers."

He walked a little further, thinking,
"Since they don't know me, I really
don't think anyone is going to lend me a
jack."

And so he continued walking and
imagining the worst possible outcome to
his predicament... No one in the town
would be willing to lend him a jack,
people would be so suspicious they'd
even refuse to sell him one, and so on.

By the time he got to the village he
was so upset he went to the square in
the middle of town and started shouting,
"All right, since that's the way you
feel, you can keep your damn jack!"


How often have you invented all kinds
of seemingly insurmountable obstacles
and unfounded fears? Think about it like
"EmmyG, how many times have you not
asked for something because you were
afraid to be refused?"