Fulfilment is the awareness, pursuit, and realisation of your essence as described by conscious and subconscious interactions of your inspirations and aspirations. It entails accomplishing goals and achieving milestones which may not be entirely within your control and purview. Fulfilment necessitates the interactions of external influences, such as other individuals, institutions and establishments.
Fulfilment also refers to the state of being satisfied, content, or complete. Involving the achievement of ones’s desires, goals, or needs that translates to a sense of accomplishment, what if what you want, or desire may not be readily available or accessible, what if it is in short supply, what if it is not directly designated for you?
What if what you desire is also wanted or desired by other people or other interests, this surely translates some sort of contention or some sort of contest.
To Juxtapose your desire against the prevalence of limited opportunities and probable scarce resources will underscores the reality or likelihood of competition.
And where there is competition, your ability to negotiate becomes the compass with which you navigate your maze of progress. What is Negotiation?
The Art of Negotiation embeds the uncanny ability to press for the desirable despite the obtainable, it draws on your ability to simulate more options than are readily recognisable, and your ability to communicate trade-offs or benefits that may not be obvious to concerned and interacting interests.
One of the core skill sets required throughout life is negotiation. Practically, your negotiation affects your employability, starting salary, career progression (promotion), relationship (propositioning), budgetary allocations for your team, parental permissions, conflict resolution, trade bits, supply timelines, and volumes, etc. Developing these skills can help you feel more confident and in control of your outcomes.
This means that, in pressing for your desire or goal, you are very likely to have to bargain or negotiate until you get what you want. Negotiation requires that
1-You know beyond a doubt what you want
2-You establish the value of what you want
3-You determine the price you are willing to pay for what you want
4-You recognise the stakeholders or the systems that can deliver it to you
5-You proactively consider what other stakeholders want, may pay for or accept in exchange for what you want
6-You engage stakeholders by expressing intentions and communicating value propositions
Negotiation is necessary where there are aspirations, where there is a variation between what is obtainable and what is desirable. And that a concerted effort directed at the desirable can superimpose the same on the obtainable. The best time to negotiate is when you realise that your desire or want, has not been offered, or that it is being offered in a suboptimal manner. Another great time to negotiate is whenever you can provide more in a situation or opportunity than is readily available to you. I suggest you negotiate openly clearly and proactively. Express your intentions in a way that truly highlights alternatives, multiplies options, and creates opportunities. This proactive approach can help you feel more empowered to shape your circumstances.