As you get out of bed at 6 am on a bright summer morning. Your house is facing east so you get that morning sunlight to wake you up. You kiss your better half on the forehead while they continue sleeping, you brush off the silk covers and open the door to go out onto your balcony to overlook the gorgeous hills, soft valleys and grapevines. You skip down your wool-furbished stairs into your kitchen where you brew your freshly ground coffee, as the coffee is made you see your shadow rest on the fridge as the sun rises.

You go back upstairs slowly, there’s no need to rush. You know nothing ever comes good from rushing. As your coffee cools down you go back to your balcony, the sun is beaming over the landscape, showing off colours you could never see at twilight. You see olive groves and centuries-old cypresses, a dreamlike view where landscape becomes poetry. You sit in your hand-crafted chair and admire what you have in front of you. You worked for this, this wasn’t luck, a little bit of it was. But it was skill. It was skills.

Developing skills that are transferable to any area in life is essential to becoming a rare breed of person who achieves greatness. Skills that can be developed in the workforce and applied in personal life, and vice versa would be a huge advantage.

Why?

Because skills can bring you the life you want. Without skills, you’ll just be another person, going through the day-to-day motions of life so passively. You want to live actively. You want to be alive, you want to feel alive!

From what I’ve seen in the workplace and social interactions, social skills are so essential that if you are lacking in them you’re at a massive disadvantage. Just improving your social skills in every situation in your life can have tremendous positive results. 

To improve social skills and your overall life, I believe, it boils down to these four timeless skills.

• Sales

• Persuasion

• Influence

• Negotiation

Now these skills go hand in hand and do overlap each other, but they are also different in and of itself. What’s the beauty of these skills? They’re universal. You can view the world as:

1. Everything is a sale

2. Everything is persuasion

3. Everything is an influence 

4. Everything is a negotiation.

You sell and negotiate with your boss on a raise.

You influence the masses to buy your product.

You persuade something you like to go out with you.

You sell your parents into giving you an allowance

Anyone benefits from getting better at these four skills. They are powerful, they are crucial, they are timeless, they are universal. They can bring you the life you want. And they apply to any situation in life.

Become a master at sales, persuasion, influence and negotiation and see you’ll start to get more of what you want.

Until next time,

Brody