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Be Better, Be Smarter

You can’t have too many skills. And the best skills to acquire are those that your friends don’t have. We always have room for improvement. After a day we are called to perform, project an image of sheer mastery, of being skillful in any arena, still in our private moments we realize that we haven’t fully tap into our potentials. Admittedly, there are skills we have not honed, strategies not perfected, talents not explored. What makes us humans, not monkeys is that we can change, we get better and most importantly we do it for the sake of becoming better persons. Each of us has the ability to do anything we want, given an appropriate amount of passion and time. To get started in our journey to meaningful changes and improvement here a roster of suggested areas to explore and sink our teeth into. -Be a hero. We have to have the necessary skills especially if we are lifesavers at heart. Learn CPR and first aid. Take courses on how to care for heart attack victims until help arrives. Stop

Do You Make These Mistakes When Negotiating?

Let’s face it negotiating is part of our daily lives from trying to convince your boss to give you a pay raise, the landlord to give you a reasonable rent control and to convincing someone to be your girlfriend or wife. It’s all a matter of convincing or persuading. Though some of us are good at negotiating I can say there is also a lot who suck at it. But like any other skills, negotiating can be learn and hone to a polished degree through constant study and practice. Let’s first examine our negotiating boo boos and try to correct them. -We talk more instead of listening more. Top negotiators get all the important information they must have from the other party. By listening more they position themselves to know their deadlines which a very crucial information in negotiating. If we talk more, then we are revealing way too much like our deadlines, or issues that are important to us that the other party may make comprising very hard for us. Once they know our deadlines, the one worst th