Never Say This to Your Boss If You Want a Promotion

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AVAlexander VolchekTTTatyana TsvetkovaWork, profession, and career pathChildren, parenting, and family lifeCHChildrenCouples and healthy relationships

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• 00:00How this phrase hurts you: a real example
• 07:10The victim mindset: why it doesn't work
• 11:40How children affect earnings and stress
• 19:27A technique for moving into a strong position

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• 01:29

  On the other, why you shouldn't do it if you want to maintain a firm position socially and keep other people from taking advantage of you.

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• 02:17

  Again, this could be a conversation with your boss or with your business partner. It's common for one of two partners to tell the other, ‘We need to take money out of the business,’ or ‘I need to…’

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• 04:01

  We'll also address the objection: ‘What if the person really does work because they have to feed their family?’ They have no other options.

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• 04:40

  My partner came to me and said, ‘We absolutely have to pay him seven thousand because those are his family's regular expenses.’

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• 10:07

  You can say to yourself, ‘I have children. I have housing and travel to pay for, and plenty of needs and desires.’

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• 12:11

  That doesn't happen when someone chooses a job at twenty and tells themselves, ‘That's it. I've written off the rest of my life.’

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• 13:57

  I don't regret what happened, and I'm not saying I should have changed my life. I simply see no problem with it.

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• 15:47

  Let's always let the children sleep with us when they come in, whether we have to get up in the morning or not, whether it's hard or not. This will end. It's guaranteed to end.

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• 22:42

  The position that some outside circumstance is the reason you need the money is no better than, ‘You have to pay my salary today because this evening I planned to buy a Louis Vuitton bag or suitcase for ten thousand dollars.’

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• 23:34

  I'm not saying you should act that way, but it is one way to send someone down some strange lines of thought.

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