I'm quite sure that just about everyone has gone to a meeting of some kind, maybe at work, at your church or sporting organization. When we attend a meeting there is always an agenda set for the meeting, which the person facilitating the meeting will make sure that the participants stay with.

Dictionary.com defines the word "agenda" as: a list, plan, outline, or the like, or things to be done, matters to be acted upon, etc. So when we have a meeting, we have a list of the things, the matters to be dealt with at the meeting, which we hopefully stick to, in order to have a productive, well ordered and successful meeting. But what I'd like to highlight here today for all of my valued readers, is the fact that as today's title puts it, everyone has an agenda, yes they do, whether we're aware of it or not. In other words, when someone comes to talk with us about a particular subject, we need to realize and indeed be fully aware of the fact, that before that when persons opens their mouth to start speaking, they do in fact have a very specific agenda lined up in their head.

So, it's most important for us to be fully aware of this fact, that most people do indeed have a very specific agenda in their head, an organized list of exactly what they want to discuss and the points that they intend to make us fully aware of. This agenda which some refer to as a hidden agenda needs to be rooted out and fully understood before entering into a discussion with others, if at all possible.

Let me give you an example of what I'm actually talking about. Let's say that a person at the office says to you, that they'd like to go for a drink with you after work. You need to be on your guard, so to speak, and thus ask a whole lot of questions so that you will discover the actual agenda of the person who asked you to meet with them. Sometimes the person's agenda is one that you'll be glad to go along with; however, it could be that it's a matter that you're totally opposed to. So in conclusion, it's most important for you to always realize, that as today's title puts it, everyone has an agenda. Yes they do. Think about it!

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