Keep your mouth shut

I am not at the mercy of the world. The world, as someone so aptly stated, is my oyster.  What does this mean?  For me, it means that within every hard and closed mouth oyster, there is a pearl of truth, a shiny shiny gift of delight, a secret something that I wasn't expecting.  Asking and getting, they go together...that is the secret that sales people have been screaming for years!  It only seems like a secret because many are too afraid to ask and believe falsely that if they wait, somehow magically the "universe" will discover exactly what they need and want and it will suddenly appear, rabbit in a hat style.  Asking gets you and me one step closer to getting, this is ancient advice, I'm just telling it on the mountain so all who listen can hear...you are not at the mercy of the random kindnesses the world periodically throws your way, YOU are powerful and have a mouth and can speak the request(s), not to the universe for goodness sake, to the human beings you want to enroll as paying clients.  The money monster keep your mouth shut just got slayed...now go get those clients and change the world.