Recently, I had a $500 phone bill. My initial reaction was to ignore it and act like the problem didn’t exist (lol). How many times do we try to ignore our problems away? It doesn’t work. Anyway, I eventually summoned the courage to start fixing the problem, so I called the phone company to enquire about the bill. I am told I did in fact incur the costs, and that I had a month to pay it. I got off the phone without asking if there was any way they could help me reduce the bill. Even though I had nothing to lose by asking, I was hesitant to ask. A few days later, it occurred to me to ask. It turned out that they were able to reduce my bill by 50% which they did. This incidence reminded me of an important principle, which is that we miss 100% of the shots we don’t take. There was a certain possibility of success and certain possibility of failure. Most likely the possibility of failure was higher than that of success, so let’s say for argument sake there was a 30% chance of success and a 70% chance of failure. If you don’t make the attempt you reduce your 30% chance of success to 0. If I didn’t ask, I would definitely have lost the $250 credit. As long as there is a chance of success, please take the shot, because you might score. Remember, you miss all the shots you don’t take.
No Comments
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
2009
12.28
12.28