Achieve Your Goals By Being Proactve Instead of Reactive

“All The World’s A Stage” – at some point in your life, many of you would have heard this quote from William Shakespeare’s play, “As You Like It”.  For me, this saying evokes a feeling of everyone of us being actors - constantly playing the parts ascribed by our personal scripts.  

Scripts however, have pre-determined circumstances, plots and endings. Real life, on the other hand, is messy with surprises around every corner.  So, hard as we may try, it is impossible for us to definitively know what will come next.

It is with this thought in mind that we go into the usefulness of our next technique – Going To The Balcony.  (This is an approach that was promoted in a book titled, Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way From Confrontation To Cooperation.) Using this method is effective when the chaos of reality interferes with the strategies you have laid out for your lives.  

Scenario

You are with colleagues at work and either deliberately or innocuously, one of your hot buttons was activated.  Now, the general response promoted on this site is for you to take a rain check to give yourself time toget your emotions under control before responding.  However, what if you are in the middle of negotiations?  Maybe you are working with others to make a presentation to a potential client.  In such a situation, you cannot physically walk away.  You have to keep going and achieve your goals.  

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