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in the midst of reading Canfield’s book,
i came across a very short section in which seemed to hit me right in the face.
the irony is that the impact was actually just from a small, seemingly insignificant passing event.
i shall share the front of the section as per written by the author,
as i believe everyone can somehow reflect directly frm the exact passage:

“Many years ago, I took a workshop with self-esteem and motivational expert Cherie Carter-Scott, author of If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules. As the 24 of us entered the training room on the first morning, we were directed to take a seat in one of the chairs facing the front of the room. There was a spiral notebook on every chair. Some were blue, some were yellow, some were red. The one on my chair was yellow. I remember thinking, I hate yellow. I wish I had a blue one.

Then Cherie said something that changed my life forever: ‘If you don’t like the color of the notebook you have, trade with someone else and get the one you want. You deserve to have everything in your life exactly the way you want it.’ ”

imagine.
how many years have u settled with the thinking that u cldnt have everything u wanted?
well, for me, 22 years.

a couple of weeks ago, i came to NG office in the morning just to see my colleague eating a seemingly delicious looking & totally aromatic BK breakfast meal.

‘wat u eating? burger king got vegetarian breakfast meh?’
i asked him.

‘no, but u can ask the person to take out the bacon from the sandwich & ask him to give u more cheese & hashbrowns.’
he said.

‘really can like that meh???!!’
i asked,
totally perplexed by the fact that i could possibly do that.

‘ya. ask & u shall receive.’
he told me with a serious look.

it was really surprising how i could learn something so important & valuable through something so little, like an ex-bacon sandwich.

it just occured to me that sometimes i just take things as they come,
not EVER thinking that i could change them,
just because they come this way, fixed.
or perhaps most other times i fail to ask for that i want,
simply because i was afraid that i would not receive.
or i was afraid that i might not get what i asked for.

its time for me/us, to change things.
ask for what u want!!
even if u do not get it,
at least u asked.
if u dont even ask,
101% u will not get it.

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