Everything You Do in Life, is a Business Transaction

Everything in life is a transaction. This may sound funny, but it is true. If you look at your life and your activities, the friends and network you make, your family, your spouse, your business, your day-to-day activity, you are actually transacting all day, all your life.

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When you breathe in Oxygen, you are paying carbon(iv)oxide to the environment and plants who collect the CO2 and give you oxygen. When you were a child, you decided to go to school, which was a transaction, so you wouldn't be uneducated when others are educated, and you paid to attend the school. In life, you pay something to get something, it might not be in cash, it could be in kind. One reason why I like lawyers, is that they transact almost everything. Legal practitioners are always owing themselves one favor or the other, because they are simply transacting. Selling something and buying something from one person.

When you know this, you will be able to take proper consideration into whatever task you decide to do, and whatever relationship you decide to keep. You start to regurgitate the fact that nothing in this life is free, you give something for something, either in the present or in the future. Understanding that everything in life is a business, it is important to position yourself in a position where you are not losing. You should be able to hold the power to determine where a conversation is heading to, or what result would be gotten from a conversation, deal, and so on.

To do this, you need to know your constraint, and ensure they aren't going to use it against you. Work on your constraint, and master how you would sway the conversation a little from your weakness when they are raised, but importantly, you should know that you cannot identify your enemies weaknesses and constraints, you should be able to guess their unsaid needs for in the conversation. One thing you should be certain about is that people want to have the freedom of choice, so it is your job to push the narrative that they have a choice, and they are making a choice when you are actually getting what you want. Another thing you should be certain about is that people want to be listened to, so make them feel listened to, listen well, so you can know the angle to pick your negotiating business from. There are a lot of things that you should put into consideration when transacting in life, ensure you transact everything well.