A friend of mine used to say: “Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life." The older I get, the more I realize just how right he was.
Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution,
or even of those who further it;
power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion.
"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
— Franz Kafka
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1-hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.