{"id":11599,"date":"2013-08-09T01:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2013-08-02T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T13:48:11","slug":"11599","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=11599","title":{"rendered":"You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"project-management-career\"<\/a>A friend of mine asked me to help a friend of his with their taxes.\u00a0 I worked on this friend\u2019s (first-removed) back taxes from 2010 with great results.\u00a0 After filling out some simple forms, his was owed a very nice accumulated refund.\u00a0 I had the forms done, appropriate W2 forms clipped to the right forms, the envelops addressed and even stamped.\u00a0 All this gentleman needed to do was to review, sign, fold and mail.\u00a0 The paperwork mentioned that he would get his refund in 2-4 weeks.<\/p>\n

4 weeks later, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet.\u00a0 He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell \u2014 you know you can\u2019t get your money, until you mail the forms in\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same in life and work.\u00a0 It\u2019s more difficult to get what you really want if you don\u2019t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.<\/p>\n