For the better part of a year, I was waiting for my crypto portfolio tracking app to add two new coins I had built positions in. Every few weeks, I would search in their catalog, realize they still weren’t there, grunt, and close the app again.
The other day, the company’s handle popped up on my news feed on X. “Heck, let me just ask them,” I thought. I pinged them, and, within a day, they replied. “Here’s our listing request page. Just fill in the info, and they should show up in a few days.”
I had to create an account to fill in the listing form, but overall, it probably took five minutes to submit the data they needed. I forgot about the whole thing just as quickly. A week later, I remembered. For the umpteenth time, I repeated my ritual: Punch the ticker into the search bar and…voilà! Both coins showed up, charts, exchange markets, and all. Another 15 minutes later, I had added both positions to my tracker, and my portfolio was finally complete.
Many things in this life, you can ask for all you want, yet, ultimately, you’ll have to earn them. Some demands, however, you can never fulfill by yourself and, therefore, will always need help with, no matter when you hope to attain them. Wherever that’s the case, you might as well make the request sooner rather than later.
You can’t get what you don’t ask for—and even a definitive “no” is better than a “maybe” hanging in the balance.
