Negotiations — How to Excel
Your most important sale is to sell yourself to yourself. Maxwell Maltz
When someone says negotiation, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
Maybe it’s salary negotiation with your new employer OR asking for a promotion OR raise in salary from your manager OR two people negotiating on their differences OR asking more monthly allowance from your parents OR selecting what to watch on movie night with your partner OR anything that you relate more to.
To be honest, everything in life is negotiable and we need to choose what is worth and what is not. You may be in situations where you think you are not winning or getting that YES you think you should get it.
Sometimes even before negotiating, you are selling that negotiation to yourself. And if you are not able to convince yourself, often you drop the idea to even go forward and have a conversation in reality.
For example — you are in a mall and you see a person not wearing a mask, are you going to go there and tell that person that they should wear a mask in public places. I might think about 5–10 minutes. Negotiate with myself — whether I should go or not and ultimately I will decide not to go and later, judging that person for a while without any reason.
