Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
It takes less work to succeed than to fail.