If someone knows you're doing this, their rejection doesn't count.
If you don't ask, you'll never know. You need to ask to get what you want!
Did
- Hitchhike (lots of rejection, but one success)
- Ask to sit in on a class that wasn't mine
- Ask four other students to a group chat (success)
- Ask another for their past tests for the course you're currently taking (success)
- Ask a professor to audit their course without meeting the prerequisites (success)
- Email someone well known (not necessarily a movie star), such as Peter Singer (success)
- Ask for a few cents from a stranger at a waterpark (success)
- Ask two girls for their numbers for your two friends (success)
- Request a LinkedIn connection with a professor (rejection)
- Ask several neighbors to mow their lawn; hand out flyers (all rejections)
- Offer to babysit for a neighbor them (pay implied)
To-do ~ Just go out and ask:
- Ask someone who knows how to dance if they would teach you a cool move
- Ask someone to dance, anywhere (even if you don't know--they'll soon find out)
- Ask a farmer if they have rubber rings to castrate animals like goats (for recoil mechanism)
- Ask a hardware store person about small rubber gaskets (plumbing section) ~ rings inside
- Ask a TA to see their past exams for the course or the next course
- Ask a stranger to rate my look
- Ask a friend to do your laundry
- Ask for no tax on a purchase
- Invite someone to your club meeting
- In a park, ask a person if they'd allow you to sit next to them on a bench
- Ask a "not close" friend for a head massage or shoulder massage
- Ask a stranger to scratch my back in a place I can't reach
- Offer to pay for someone's order
- Ask your boss for a raise. If unemployed, ask someone for a job
- Ask for directions from a stranger
- Invite someone you've never socialized with out to dinner
- Offer to help a stranger with their groceries
- Ask someone if they believe in God
- Ask someone their stance in politics
- Try to sell something to someone in person
- Try to buy something that is not for sale. Do it in person and make sure it's something you want.
- Before purchasing something, ask for a discount.
- Ask for a girl's number for yourself
- Ask for something that's not on the menu
- Strike up a conversation with a stranger on the bus
- Ask someone out on a date
- Ask a stranger for change for a dollar
- Ask someone I have a crush on for a kiss
- Asking a stranger if you can hug them
- Ask for a random stranger to add you to his social network
- Ask a cashier to let you have some small item, like gum, for free
- Ask someone to do their job for 10 minutes (such as for fast food)
- Radically change your look
- spike your hair for a week
- Ask a stranger for their opinion on the economy
- Borrow $100 from a stranger
- Tour a warehouse (such as a grocery store)
- Play soccer in someone's backyard
- Send something to Santa Clause
- Have someone sing the Happy Birthday Song to me
- Learn sales from one of the top give car salesmen in the state
- Take an unregistered exam
- Give $5 to five random people
- Borrow a dog from the humane society
- Give a weather forecast on live TV
- Make announcements on a plane flight
- Ask strangers for compliments
- Get donations for charity on the street
- Slide down the pole at a fire station
- Cook something like a piece of meat or omelet at a restaurant
- Find a job in one day
- Ask a girl out to dinner
- Challenge a CEO to a staring contest
- Race a random person
- Partner up with a stranger to buy lottery
- Sit in a police car's driver seat
- Write an article for some magazine
- Hug a Walmart greeter
- Give away your favorite book. Ask the person to read it and tell you what they think.
- Try to acquire a good or service by trade
- Offer to give advice
- Ask for a ride from a stranger, even if you don't need one
- Knock on a neighbors door and ask for something
- Put sunglasses on random people
- Pump gas for strangers
- Bike race at a store
- Interview a panhandler
- Make your own sandwich at a sub shop
- Dance with waitress
- Get someone their opinion on a recent news event
- Smile at every person you walk past today
- Write a piece for the freshman composition anthology
- Plant a flower in someone's yard
- Give away apples to strangers
- Sleep at mattress store
- Ask others to get rejected with me
- Observe a high school class
- Exchange secrets with strangers
- Buy fresh fruit at Jamba Juice
- Feed a lion or another exotic animal
- Test drive an expensive car
- Sit on Lincoln's Lap in DC
- Recruit strangers to hold up signs near a lot of traffic
- Take pictures with strangers
- Learn a martial arts master's favorite move
- Play pick-up line tournament
- Offer a neighbor to babysit for them--for free
- Borrow a book from a bookstore
- Give a speech on the street
- Ask for one month free from a service provider
- Invite some people for your next hike, shopping
- Ask someone what it would take to partner, for your next venture, etc.
- Ask strangers & acquaintances for money.
- For travel, ask to stay with people and also ask them to stay with you.
- Ask someone to free associate from words with a word or a phrase
Tutoring summer job? weekend summer work? winter break work?
- Ask to switch roles with another employee for a day
- Do a YouTube video about your business
- Request a testimonial from a client
- Cold call a local prospect in person
- Visit someone who declined your product/service. Ask why.
- Invite a prospect/ allied business owner to your home.
- Ask for a sponsorship from an allied business
- Start a LinkedIn discussion group. Send out invitations.
- ask for an unusual favor from someone
- do something embarrassing
- most people actually want to help you if you ask for it - especially if done politely
- put yourself out there
Other
- Talk to at least three random people a day
- Speak to a group of people with a mic, such as at an open mic event or karaoke
CUT
How many of you believe in purpose in life? that you're here for a reason?
