The Art of Strategy

the moment you step back and you go I could do B C D or e instead of B react you have power you have strategy in your life so one of the questions people wanted me to answer was how to be a better strategist in life which is the theme of the month of September in my book daily laws and basically what I would say is it's just a matter of how you look at the world so I in writing my books I am a bit of a strategist myself I never do anything without some

kind of strategic thinking behind it right so my idea in my books is to not just give you the reader ideas about life I want to change how you look at the world I want to change how you look at Power I want to change how you look at seduction itself well strategy is one of those ways that you alter how you look at the world it's like a paradigm shift because you're going around in life being extremely unstrategic and all that matters all that is required is you alter it you reverse that form of

thinking you reverse your perspective on that so normally in your day-to-day Affairs when things are happening to you you're reacting continually emotionally somebody said this it made you angry somebody said that it made you excited you saw something on social media react react react react react react react if you think you're in control because sometimes you do something kind of strong or powerful but it all stems from reaction you're in reaction mode throughout the course of your life and in my book The 33 Strategies before I call that tactical hell you are currently in tactical

hell you are continually reacting against what people say what people do you're never controlling the situation the way to get out of tactical hell is to enter strategic Heaven I've never called it that before I'm just making that up right now but it's to alter how you look at things so instead of reacting you go somebody said that now are they trying to deliberately upset me okay it worked all right the best response is to not get upset right so instead of reacting you think of what's the best way to to to respond to this

rationally you know in my next move instead of just getting emotional so what it is it's a level of Detachment in your day-to-day life and you can practice this in small ways and if you're in a relationship of any kind and you know that in a relationship there are these things that will annoy you about the other person little things that they say to get under your skin you can't help it's it's kind of constant right this is a great way to practice because it happens like every day and you go step back and you

go I'm not going to get upset I'm not going to get emotional I'm going to think in a different way I'm going to detach myself here and I'm going to go why am I getting upset here why am I getting emotional maybe it's not worth it maybe I can think of other things maybe they have a good reason for saying what they do Etc the moment you step back and you go I could do B C D or e instead of B react you have power you have strategy in your life all that's required is

you consider other ways to respond to somebody's Behavior sometimes people are in their own react mode and they are just simply being emotional to you but I can assure you that in your life however long it is you are encountering other people who are very strategic they are deliberately making you upset they are deliberately getting under your skin by something they say they are being passive aggressive however you want to call them and they thrive on the fact that they can make you emotional they can make you upset this could be your boss for instance

who knows that they can they have a lot that they can make you very afraid by Simple Things They say etc etc they relish this power they have over you as a strategist in life you don't give them that power you step back and you go is this person deliberately trying to push my buttons what is their thinking how are they operating in this world are they trying to push me in a certain direction no I'm not going to fall for their bait I'm going to either not react at all not get emotional which will

upset them or I will think of something else I can do a few days later to kind of show that I'm on to them etc etc options you want options in life that is power in a business in any kind of setting you don't want to be in a corner where you could have where you only can do one thing I call that avoiding Corners in my blog post Etc you want to have options you can go here you go there you go here go there strategic thinking will open that to you and that Golden

Gate that will open you to becoming a strategic Warrior is to get out of reacting and to always take a step back and go what is the rational response here right sometimes there are in life what we would call Pure victories so let's say you get an argument with a person someone kind of drags you into an argument and you overpower them with some brilliant idea and you you win the day you you humiliated them you show them the truth you know it's true and then they they kind of scour and they they kind of

yeah you're right okay it's a pure Victory because what you've created in the end is someone who resents you who hates you and they're going to get back at you later on in life that Superior Victory so not everything you do is about winning and even winning can come back and hurt you think about the consequences of your actions think about how you can open up options instead of just reacting and that moment where you think instead of react you're becoming a strategist in life and you will have power I guarantee you