Ask

I have to let you in on the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness:

Ask.

 This simple three letter verb requires you to take action, creates momentum and guarantees a result (not always the result you want or expect, but you always get an answer).

But the key to asking is in learning how to ask for what you want.

Here is a summary from Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen's book, The Aladdin Factor:

1) Ask with a positive expectation

2) Assume you can get it

3) Ask someone who can give it to you

4) Vague requests produce vague results.  Be clear and specific in asking.

5) Ask repeatedly.  As the owner of a company that I used to work for said, "The 'yes' is easy. When someone says 'no', that is when we have to go to work."

Today is the last day of our Kickstarter campaign.  We asked, and over 200 people said "yes", and we are now on our way into the studio to record our new album.

And it would not have happened if we did not ask.

http://kck.st/1pHBqzB

Just Lean Into It - 54 hours to go!

Success often happens when you just lean into it

 when you leave yourself open to opportunities

without a contract or any expectations.

Like the snowball that continues to grow as it rolls downhill,

leaning into it creates momentum.

Momentum is that unseen energy force that brings more opportunity

more resources

more people who can help you on your path as it unfolds.

38 years ago I threw my electric piano and all my belongings into a Dodge van,

and drove to Los Angeles to be a professional musician.

I had no job, no contract

I just leaned into the dream

I did not know then that my real purpose

was to help people with my knowledge, creativity and organizational skills

to build better lives

and that leaning into my dream

would lead me to a successful banking career

8 self-released jazz albums

a published book

and a wonderful wife and family.

You lean into it

You see how it feels

 The journey will take you where you want to go - or even someplace better.