The document discusses how asking for things works when you are a child but not as an adult. As adults, we need to look at what we can provide rather than just what we want. The easiest way to get what you want is to ask others what they want and listen to them rather than just talking about yourself. When you focus on others' desires instead of your own, it opens more opportunities and energizes people to want to help you.

1. Grow Up

2. There's a lot of watershed moments in
a person's life.

3. The time before your first kiss, and the
time after.

4. The time before you started working,
and the time after.

5. The time before you had kids, and the
time after.

6. One of the most important is also the
hardest to identify, as it manifests
itself in many ways.

7. The childhood portion, and the adult
portion.

8. When we are children, all we need do
is ask, and we receive.

9. But this doesn't work so well when
we're adults.

10. On the other hand, there are plenty of
books, strategies, political beliefs, and
even religions that promise simply
asking is all we need do.

11. This begs the question, if ALL of us
ONLY ask, then who's doing the giving?

12. What if all the guys and gals who ran
the electricity and water plants
decided they didn't need to go to
work, and all they needed to do was
sit home and "ask"?

13. What if the people around the world
that grew the food we all depend on
every day decided that they just
needed to sit home and "ask" instead
of going to work every day?

14. I know, these are tough questions we
don't like asking.

15. We LOVE the idea of getting
something for nothing.

16. But as mentioned above, that really
only works for kids.

17. Who have parents who are genetically
programmed to take care of them.

18. As adults, we have to always look for
not only what we want, but what we
can give in order to get it.

19. And the easiest way to do this is to
simply ask others what THEY want.

20. When we get into the habit of doing
this, then things can go pretty
smoothly.

21. Most people walk around talking
about themselves.

22. What they've done.

23. What they want to do.

24. What they think they deserve.

25. Sure, if you happen to have EXACTLY
what they want, and you KNOW
somehow that they've got what you
want, then that may work pretty well.

26. But this is pretty rare.

27. On the other hand, when you have
enough faith in people in general, that
just by talking to them in a certain way,
you can get a LOT more than you think
you can.

28. When you start ASKING other people
what they want, instead of
overwhelming them with your desires,
something pretty amazing will happen.

29. They'll suddenly become energized.

30. Open.

31. Excited.

32. They'll wonder who the heck YOU are,
and how they can help YOU.

33. This will open many more doors that
most people realize exist.

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