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Become Your Own Version of “The Daily Asker”

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

I stumbled over to our partner site www.SingleWomenRule.com today and found the following post.  I love the concept of The Daily Asker and thought that I had to share it - and her - with you immediately.

“Right now I’m reading The Gospel According to Chanel by Karen Korbo (and hope to get around to reviewing it at some point). It mentions The Daily Asker, a blog by a woman who set out to make a habit of asking for things. Apparently, it’s a wildly popular but somehow escaped my notice.

The Asker, who calls herself ‘La Roxy,’  asks for perks, upgrades, two-for-one deals, better seats in restaurants, pay raises, and so on.  She got the idea to ask-and-blog after getting to page seven of  Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever’s Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation–and Positive Strategies for Change, which maintains that we females leave millions of dollars on the table over the course of our lives because we avoid negotiating.”

WHAT????!!!!! Millions of dollars????  If we’re leaving that on the table at work, imagine what we aren’t asking for in other areas of our lives (hello, unsatisfying personal relationships?).

You can read the rest of the blog entry at www.singleowmenrule.com, or go straight to The Daily Asker.   In fact, I’ll help you even further; go straight to the November 9th entry, How to Get Your Way, (Italian Style).

Just do it!


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