How to Ask for and Get What You Want

Commonsense Tips That Work

Catherine DePino

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781475857207
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Leadership

We've all experienced frustration asking for and getting what we want. It plays out regularly with our partners, children, employers, and businesses we patronize. Sometimes we don't bother to ask for what we want, even when it's perfectly reasonable, thinking it will create hard feelings or spark an argument. Often, it's because we don't think we can succeed in getting what we want. But nothing could be further from the truth.


How to Ask for What You Want and Get It: Common Sense Tips That Work will help readers learn how to ask for what they want and get good results. It teaches them how to stay in the game by using the right words. It also shows how to build rapport by using positive body language. The more you know what makes people operate as they do, the better chance you'll have of helping them see things your way.

The most important aspect to negotiating anything is getting the other person on your side. That means the person you're asking has to like and respect you enough to do what you want. Most of the advice in this book employs mindfulness techniques. The mindfulness movement helps people live in the moment, speak more effectively to one another, and settle problems peacefully.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Use These Techniques to Get What You Want
• Get Results on the Phone
• Ask and Receive from a Partner
• Get Kids to Listen and Do What You Want
• Negotiate Prices and Service Contracts
• Contact a Company about a Concern
• Get What You Want from Friends and Family
• Come Out on Top in a Job Interview
• Ask and Receive on the Job
• Ask and Receive in the Educational Arena
• Think about How to Ask Hard Questions
• Other Books by the Author
• About the Author