I discovered the 3 ASK principles of success in the bible in a statement that Jesus once made. Here is a quote from that statement taken from the book of Matthew 7:7

“Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened on to you”

This quote contains the 3 ask principles of success which funny enough can also be turned into the acronym
A-S-K

A – Ask

S- Seek

K – Knock

The First of The 3 ASK Principles of success is to ASK

One of the ways to get what you want from life is to simply ask for it. It sounds simple enough but many of us don’t do it, we are afraid to ask for what we want and we allow our fear to stop us from asking.

I remember when I first met my wife, I had been observing and admiring her for a while but I was afraid to go and ask her for a date and get acquainted with her. I wanted to ask her out, I wanted to ask her for the opportunity to get to know her better and develop a friendship with her that could possibly lead to more, I fantasized about asking her, I dreamt about asking her, I even practiced what I would say if I somehow had the courage to ask her, but one thing was missing – I hadn’t yet asked her!

You don’t get what you want just by imagining and fantasizing and dreaming about it, you have to take action and the action I had to take in this particular instance was to ask for what I wanted, an opportunity to develop a friendship with the woman I had been dreaming about.

I finally summoned the courage and asked her, I put my fear of rejection aside (which is why most of us never ask for what we want because we are afraid of getting rejected), I approached her and asked her for a date and for the opportunity to get to know her better, the rest is history and she is my wife today because I asked. Let’s imagine I allowed my fear to get the best of me and never asked her, maybe we wouldn’t be together today, and maybe I wouldn’t be married to my soul mate today.

You can read more about the success principle of asking in my article entitled ‘The most simple law of success is to ask’ Click here to read it

The second of the 3 ASK Principles of Success is to SEEK

To seek means ‘to go looking for’. If you want to be successful in life and if you want to achieve your goals and life’s purpose and vision then you have to seek. You have to go and look for opportunities, you have to go and look for contacts by networking with people that can help you and point you in the right direction, you have to go look for courses you need to take to give you a competitive edge in your field, you have to go look for information, books, seminars, and other resources that will help you towards the fulfillment of your goal.

Those that seek, those that go looking will find. If you look for opportunities, you will find opportunities, if you look for contacts you will find contacts, if you look for Jobs you will find Jobs, if you look for investments you will find investments, if you look for answers you will find answers, if you look for business opportunities you will find business opportunities, if you look for ways to make more money you will find ways to make more money. If you don’t look for it, you won’t find it.

If you want to be a successful business owner, then you need to go and look for information on how to achieve business success or people who have achieved business success who can mentor you and guide you in the right direction.

If you want to be a successful parent, then you need to go and look for information on how to achieve success in parenting or people who have raised their children successfully who can mentor you.

If you want a successful relationship or marriage then you need to go and seek and look for information on how to achieve marital or relationship success.

If you want to succeed in your career, go and look for information, seek information and advice on how to climb to the top of your field.

If you don’t seek you won’t find, and if you don’t find you will remain exactly where you are and never accomplish your goals. Life will not drop things into your lap; you must actively go out to look for how you can get your hands on what you want. You can’t complain of not being able to get a Job when you have never looked for one. You can’t complain that you haven’t found your soul mate when you have never looked for her. Even the bible says that “He that finds a wife, finds a good thing” – Proverbs 18:22 and to find you must first look or seek.

I started my online business because I was looking and seeking for ways to not only make more money but to also share my passion, talents and gifts with the world. It was that search that lead me to find Site Build It, A company that shows you how you can turn my passion into a profitable online business. If I wasn’t looking I wouldn’t have found.

The third of the 3 ASK Principles of Success is to KNOCK

It is not enough to seek for doors of opportunity if upon finding the door you just stand there and hope it opens. If you get to my house and just stand in front of my door without ringing the door bell or knocking the door, how can I know you are there to grant you access?

Only those who knock on the door get granted access, those who just stare at the door will wait outside for a very long time.

Not knocking on the door is like finding a Job you can do but not applying for it.

Not knocking on a door is like being in the same room with someone who can potentially help take your business to the next level but you never introduce yourself to them.

Not knocking on a door is like seeing someone who is a potential life partner for you but never asking them for a date.

As long as you don’t knock, the door will be shut against you.

Knocking the door in essence is taking action; it is taking the necessary step to get the door open because the door is the only thing that stands in the way of access. You don’t get access as long as the door is shut against you and if you want the door open you have to knock.

Marketing is a form of knocking on the door. You knock by putting your business in front of several people and someone is bound to be interested.

A Sales pitch is a form of knocking on the door. You tell people about the benefits of your product and offer them the opportunity to benefit from your product by buying it, someone will eventually open up their door and buy if you keep knocking.

Applying for that Job or posting your C.V. is a form of knocking on the door; sooner or later an employer will hear you knocking and give you an opportunity.

All that stands between you and that which you want to achieve is that door, your desired destination is on the other side of that door, your joy, happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction are on the other side of that door, your miracle and breakthrough is on the other side of that door and you must knock on the door to be given access to it. To those who knock, the door will be opened, to those who do not knock, the door will remain shut.