Negotiations is an important life skill. We are negotiating constantly whether its for salary, whether it's for a project whether its for a relationship whether its something that we have to get from our parents, from our siblings, from our friends. we are constantly just getting into conversation with individuals, trying to figure out to how they can agree to what we want. There are few things about negotiations that i want to share with you. which have helped me personally alot and i hope would help you too. Number one is whenever you are negotiating with someone its very important for you to make a list of things that will go against you. make a list of all the things that will make you loose the negotiation. Its a very important self awareness tactics because if you are able to identify all the reasons why you would fail in that negotiation then you would mentally be prepared for it. you would actually go about even stating it upfront. Lets say you are going to your boss and negotiating for a higher raise or may be you have got a new job offer. you have got the first offer and say it would pay you around a hundred and you feel that you should be getting 120 or 125. so you have to get into negotiations now when you do that it is important for you to make a list of all the things that will not work for you.it could be your past salary, it could be your experience it could be the fact that may be know they know that you dont have any other offer, it could be the fact that you are in notice period and may be you are eager or Perhaps even just in a point where you have to take a decision may be something else you make a list of all that and then one by one you decide on what is the counter for each of these things. you may or may not have a counter but you basically need to know atleast mentally go through that and do that mental conversation where lets say you say you know what i got the offer thats its hundred its great thankyou for that but i was hoping it would be about 125 and they will be like but your previous salady was 75 that means almost a 50 % jump or 60 % jump how will you respond to that.