I recently read a Facebook post from one of my friends. She said something like, "People always ask me how I get these really cool speaking gigs. I tell them... 'Because I ask!'"

How many times have you secretly wanted something in your life but never asked for it?

Most of the time, what we want is right at our finger tips, but it requires us to get a little uncomfortable. In order to get what we want, we'd have to step out on a limb and ask for it. Uh, uh... no way, sometimes that's just way too scary right?

The reasons we don't ask for what we want is because when we think about asking for what we want, these are just some of the stories that play out in our head...