[nukkad] [Fwd: Ask, Ask, Ask]

[Ninad Chhaya <ninad@bom4.vsnl.net.in>]

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KomalJain wrote:
> 
> Ask, Ask, Ask
> 
> The greatest saleswoman in the world today doesn't mind if you call her a
> girl. That's because Markita Andrews has generated more than eighty thousand
> dollars selling Girl Scout cookies since she was seven years old.
> 
> Going door-to-door after school, the painfully shy Markita transformed
> herself into a cookie-selling dynamo when she discovered, at age 13, the
> secret of selling.
> 
> It starts with desire. Burning, white-hot desire.
> 
> For Markita and her mother, who worked as a waitress in New York after her
> husband left them when Markita was eight years old, their dream was to
> travel the globe. "I'll work hard to make enough money to send you to
> college," her mother said one day. "You'll go to college and when you
> graduate, you'll make enough money to take you and me around the world.
> Okay?"
> 
> So at age 13 when Markita read in her Girl Scout magazine that the Scout who
> sold the most cookies would win an all-expenses-paid trip for two around the
> world, she decided to sell all the Girl Scout cookies she could - more Girl
> Scout cookies than anyone in the world, ever.
> 
> But desire alone is not enough. To make her dream come true, Markita knew
> she needed a plan.
> 
> "Always wear your right outfit, your professional garb," her aunt advised.
> "When you are doing business, dress like you are doing business. Wear your
> Girl Scout uniform. When you go up to people in their tenement buildings at
> 4:30 or 6:30 and especially on Friday night, ask for a big order. Always
> smile, whether they buy or not, always be nice. And don't ask them to buy
> your cookies; ask them to invest."
> 
> Lots of other Scouts may have wanted that trip around the world. Lots of
> other Scouts may have had a plan. But only Markita went off in her uniform
> each day after school, ready to ask - and keep asking - folks to invest in
> her dream. "Hi, I have a dream. I'm earning a trip around the world for me
> and my mom by merchandising Girl Scout cookies," she'd say at the door.
> "Would you like to invest in one dozen or two dozen boxes of cookies?"
> 
> Markita sold 3,526 boxes of Girl Scout cookies that year and won her trip
> around the world. Since then, she has sold more than 42,000 boxes of Girl
> Scout cookies, spoken at sales conventions across the country, starred in a
> Disney movie about her adventure and has co-authored the best seller, How to
> Sell More Cookies, Condos, Cadillac's, Computers ... And Everything Else.
> 
> Markita is no smarter and no more extroverted than thousands of other
> people, young and old, with dreams of their own. The difference is Markita
> had discovered the secret of selling: Ask, Ask, Ask! Many people fail before
> they even begin because they fail to ask for what they want. The fear of
> rejection leads many of us to reject ourselves and our dreams long before
> anyone else ever has the chance - no matter what we're selling.
> 
> And everyone is selling something. "You're selling yourself everyday - in
> school, to your boss, to new people you meet," said Markita at 14. "My
> mother is a waitress: she sells the daily special. Mayors and presidents
> trying to get votes are selling... I see selling everywhere I look. Selling
> is part of the whole world."
> 
> It takes courage to ask for what you want. Courage is not the absence of
> fear. It's doing what it takes despite one's fear. And, as Markita has
> discovered, the more you ask, the easier (and more fun) it gets.
> 
> Once, on live TV, the producer decided to give Markita her toughest selling
> challenge. Markita was asked to sell Girl Scout cookies to another guest on
> the show. "Would you like to invest in one dozen or two dozen boxes of Girl
> Scout cookies?" she asked.
> 
> "Girl Scout cookies? I don't buy any Girl Scout cookies!" he replied. "I'm a
> Federal Penitentiary warden. I put 2,000 rapists, robbers, criminals,
> muggers and child abusers to bed every night."
> 
> Unruffled, Markita quickly countered, "Mister, if you take some of these
> cookies. maybe you won't be so mean and angry and evil. And, Mister, I think
> it would be a good idea for you to take some of these cookies back for every
> one of your 2,000 prisoners, too."
> 
> Markita asked.
> 
> The Warden wrote a check.
> 
> You've got to ask!.
> Asking is ,in my opinion,the world's most powerful - and neglected -secret
> to success and happiness
>                                                                     ---
> Percy Ross
> 
> Celebrate Life .....Great Day.... Happy Weekend ....

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