DON'T Overplay Your Hand

DON'T Overplay Your Hand

How Often do we Overplay our hand?  I'm sure NOT too often but nevertheless, from time to time, let's admit it that we tend to Overplay our hand and at times, unconsciously.  So you might retort, am I making a mountain out of a molehill?  NO sirrrrs, there is enough mountains all over the landscape caused by us.  This explains why we DON'T Overplay our hand💴💷💵

So, you might wonder under what scenarios do we Overplay our hand?  Let's start with social media, everybody's staple food these days.  HOW much time we spend in social media when we got too much stuff to work on, whether in school, at home, at work OR in our own business?  ISN'T it a no-brainer, many of our SCREEN TIMES are way beyond the roof?  So, we do Overplay our hand📙📗📘

How many times we heard of high-rollers in the casinos end up kaput?  Simple story.  It's because they Overplay their hand.  On to the job hunter, here he comes about to receive a job offer BUT before he signs on the dotted line, he OVERPLAYS HIS HAND and start for asking a salary rate way above his pay grade, whew.  What happens next, that you can guess.  He goes home empty handed.  Heard of someone selling either properties and finally here comes a very serious buyer.  And guess what, the seller UPs the price.  Guess what happened next?  The buyer goes off.  WHY?  Because the seller OVERPLAYED HIS HAND📌📌📌

Over in the labor market, there could be well organized unions like the powerful AFL-CIO in the United States.  And NOT to downplay the labor unions in the U.S., they deftly handle negotiations so well, playing their cards close to their chest.  And while their organized labor will egg them to PLAY THEIR HAND, the negotiators are well cautioned NOT to OVERPLAY THEIR HAND❎❎❎

When we move to NEGOTIATIONS 101, we are well advised to be very sharp in the negotiations to discern when they have the UPPER HAND and even WHEN they should be talking about the celebratory cocktails.  Our takeaway for today.  BE pragmatic.  BE realistic.  BE reasonable.  BE in control.  HOW?  DON'T OVERPLAY YOUR HAND❌❌❌